Upwork

Upwork is a great platform to start if you're new to freelancing! "Never give up" in finding clients and Upwork will give you a lot of help in order for you to win job proposals. They will help you achieve your dream.

Its shocking the level of incompetency exhibited by the support of a company this size. Tickets last DAYS in the queue and in my situation didn't event get resolved. Their language towards clients is impersonal and the chatbot is horrible. I have worked with freelancers since 2014 on various platforms. My review is not to do with talent on the platform. This is about the worse company I have had to encounter on that freelance space in terms if support. I will recommend you look somewhere else.

You have to be very specific about what you want. Otherwise you will pay for nothing. Because from the seller point of view, they cannot work for days in order to satisfy you. On the other hand as a buyer you except something that the seller must do it in a big percent of of what you expect. And if the seller is not be able to do it? Have not the skills? If the product delivered is not what you expect you will pay for it... and you will not be able to argue or get a refund. Just be careful. I would put average to good, but because I ordered a work I paid a lot and I received nothing that I can use, and I have to pay again for something and start it from the beginning I put 2 stars.

If I didn't have such strong principles I would have just let them keep my money the mediation process was not worth the abuse I endured at the hands of the con and the one sided devious UpWork employee mediator. Of course upwork doesn't get paid anything if the freelancer doesn't get paid so naturally they will side with the Freelancer, Even after I eventually won my right to a refund I had to again call email and fight to get it returned to my bank account. And still waiting 60 days later.

Up work is the best place to find the client and gets the project. It is best platform for online business. I will tell my friends to become the part of this awesome and good platform. I want to give special thanks to up work that they gave me a chance to earn online. I request to all the other people who will see my review that they should become the part of up work urgently so that they become successfully. I want to thank again so much that they gave me a chance to become the part of such very good platform. Up work is my hope. I hope that soon all the other persons will also become part of this beautiful and nice platform. Thanks very much up work. I feel lucky to become the part of this very unique and best online platform.

Covid19 hit us really hard. Where government support barely reach us, Upwork has been a great source of income that let us survive this pandemic without expecting a help from the government.

There is a lot of competition going on but if you have a unique skillset, finding a client is as easy as fishing in a fishpond.

Felix

Upwork is a very good freelancer app, where business opportunities comes dauly,. I love this app mainly because it makes me aware of the current skills in demand in the market place due to various clients request. It is very easy to search for jobs too, all you need to do is write your desired job in the search box. I love the fact that they guage the interest of d client and freelancer on a 50/50 rate, it's very encouraging so it's very hard to get cheated by your client or freelancer if you work on the site...
They also have fast customer service reply to attend to complains and help you get it solved.

Upwork is a very good site

The way upwork (old odesk - old elance) works is really pathetic. It is like torrents website where content would be posted free. I got a small website work done which was pathetic, so I threw it into trash, and got a fresh work done with a professional company. In a few months, top google search results of my website are actually all upwork, and there atleast 40 freelancers who have put it in their portfolio that they have developed it. I did try to contact elance, and it has given me a big list of forms that I need to fill, FOR EACH OF THE 40, and growing number of links. The forms need proof that the website is mine, from when it is showing, which professional company did it... etc. I did complete it a couple of times, but still they did not take any action to take of the links. Now when I search google for my company name, there are atleast 100 freelancers claiming to have developed my website.

I hate to say I am glad I am not the only one who got a letter canceling my account. I literally just got off the phone with them to find out why - ready for this one - I didn't use the account enough. That is why I was dropped. Not bad reviews. Not lack of payment. Because I didn't use their site enough. I've worked with them for 4-5 years and this is the first time I have ever had an issue. And clearly the last time. They did refund my last payment but I don't care. This was ridiculous and clearly I am not the only one confused and upset by this. My advice - don't go there. If they can just randomly with no explanation cancel your membership when you have done NOTHING wrong - that is a problem. Guru, voices.com, or voice123 are much better options. You might pay a little more - but they don't cancel you :)