This is the key to the whole post in my eyes. At first you get one gig, then can't get any gigs, and then get flooded with work after making one change. It seems that the change might have been a significant event.

Based on the dates given, the calendar might also be somewhat responsible. The first couple weeks of the year are not very active in the hiring market.

It was probably just the fact that changing the profile made it shoot up to the top of the list due to sorting by last date modified. Probably not the actual changed data itself.

On the other, hand you won't believe what happened next after this Elance profile used one simple trick! CLICK HERE! </ Sarcasm>

I have the same question :P

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