Switched from Fiverr to Upwork and doubled my rate in 3 months

I used to grind on Fiverr doing $15 logo gigs with unlimited revisions. Switched to Upwork in January and landed a $30/hr content writing gig on my second proposal. The difference was actually writing custom cover letters instead of just clicking 'send offer'. Has anyone else seen better pay on one platform over the other?

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ward.diana1d ago

Yeah the "unlimited revisions" thing is such a trap lol. I did that on Fiverr too for logo work and people would just keep asking for tiny changes forever. One guy made me change the font 12 times and then went back to the first one. Custom cover letters are a game changer though. I moved to Upwork last year and started doing blog writing for $40 an hour, which felt insane after Fiverr's race to the bottom. The clients just seem more serious about actually paying decent rates.

dianawilson1d agoMost Upvoted

That 12 font changes and back to the first one story hits way too close to home. I had someone on Fiverr ask me to rewrite their about page 8 times over three weeks, and in the end they used my very first draft. Honestly I used to think unlimited revisions showed you were willing to go the extra mile for clients, but after getting burned a few times I finally see it's just asking for trouble. It took me losing a whole month of nights and weekends to one project before I got smart and capped my revisions at three rounds. Your move to Upwork sounds like the right call, those Fiverr clients really do treat you like a cheap vending machine sometimes.