Top Rated Plus.
40+ clients. 95% job success.
For two years I ran my own book of business on Upwork, from first message to repeat work. Upwork put me in its Top Rated Plus tier, the top 3% of freelancers on the platform.
No brand, no referrals, no safety net.
On a freelance marketplace you are the whole company: sales, delivery, account management and collections. Clients can leave a public score after every job, and that score decides whether the next client even opens your proposal.
I treated it as a full sales cycle, repeated forty times.
Win, deliver, keep.
Prospect and pitch
Short, specific proposals written for each client’s problem, not a template.
Discover and scope
A discovery call, a clear scope and honest expectations before any price was agreed.
Negotiate and close
More than 40 engagements across technology, healthcare, real estate and nonprofit clients.
Deliver and expand
Repeat engagements and upsells came from results and from being easy to work with.
Keep the score
A 95% Job Success Score across the whole period, which is what earned Top Rated Plus.
“On a marketplace you are the whole company.
I ran mine into the top 3%.”
What you get when you hire me.
I can sell myself
I won my own clients, with no brand behind me.
I manage expectations
The 95% score is forty clients saying the work matched the promise.
I keep clients
Repeat work and upsells, not churn.
Want this on your team?
Talk to me this week.
Available in two weeks. Remote, in any time zone.