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Tried bidding per project vs per hour on Upwork last month, total game changer
I did a test with 5 similar writing gigs on Upwork. Bid hourly on 3 of them, flat project rate on 2. The flat rate ones landed me $850 total for about 14 hours of work. The hourly ones got me $620 for 16 hours. Has anyone else found flat rates just work better for certain niches?
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sethm582mo ago
What kind of writing gigs were those two flat rate ones?
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white.keith2mo ago
Were they the ones paying like $50 for a 2000-word article on something super specific? I did a few of those back in the day and it was brutal.
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kim_davis2mo ago
Nah I gotta push back on this. Hourly protects you from scope creep way better. One flat rate job I did turned into "oh can you just add a few more sections" and suddenly I'm working double the hours for the same money. You got lucky with those two but one bad client and you're eating the loss.
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