Why Freelancing Websites Suck

You dream of leaving Corporate America behind. No more cubicle life for you! It's time to set yourself free. So you get started on a freelancing site and wait for the cash and the great opportunities to roll in... but WTH is actually going on?!?

Key topics:

✔️ Sites like Upwork, Fiverr, and Freelancer.com can be  a decent place to get started and/or to garner some positive reviews and testimonials. They can also suck the life out of you and ding you with fees. 
✔️ At some point, when you are ready to truly grow and scale your business, you will look around and realize: it's nigh on impossible using one of these platforms. You'll probably also feel a tremendous sense of burnout, too.
✔️ These sites often promise to have the freelancer's back. If you work, you'll get paid on time every time.  But is that the reality?
✔️ Customer support is often terrible. Freelancers and clients sniping back and forth at each other on the feedback pages accomplishes nothing and looks tacky.
✔️ Pricing is usually a race to the bottom. The clients shopping on these platforms are often not your ideal prospects either. Why? Well, TBH, some of them are downright abusive.


Links to articles I mention:

https://doubleyourfreelancing.com/escaping_upwork/

https://medium.com/swlh/freelancing-websites-to-avoid-like-the-plague-7db694ed7293

https://www.proteusthemes.com/blog/why-you-should-avoid-freelance-marketplaces-at-all-costs/

https://web-crunch.com/posts/how-not-to-freelance

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