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Showerthought: the $60 I spent on connects after a bad meetup at a coworking night in Austin
Sat through a "freelancer mixer" at a coworking spot on Congress last month where three people pitched me their Fiverr course before I got one useful tip, and the tip was to stop bidding on Upwork jobs over 20 proposals deep and instead set a saved search with a $200 floor and proposals under 10, which got me 3 replies in a week, so has anyone else had better luck with proposal count filters than boosting?
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martinez.paul7h ago
That saved search move is the same thing as setting a budget before you walk into a store, you decide the rules up front instead of getting talked into stuff in the moment. I started doing that with my inbox too, only reading messages that fit my filter first, and the junk stops eating my morning. It's weird how much better things go when you just cut the noise before it reaches you. Boosting is like paying to stand in a louder crowd, the filter is picking a quieter room.
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