What happened during one week of freelancing?

July 2, 2022.

3:14 PM.

A week ago I shared here that I just got my first contract on Upwork and my job is sharing articles on different social media accounts.

I was a hired by the client and said just try to promote for a week with a 5$ budget on it. Like what I said the 5$ is pretty small but still accept it for experience.

So me and the client was communicating like 3 days. He's not available on the rest of the weeks and he just told me to do the best thing that I can do. My main job was so create traffic for his website and his website is all about stocks. I am engaged with crypto platforms but I don't have any idea how stock works so he explains to me what I can do.

I am promoting on Twitter, I search videos about stocks and comment the site link on relevant videos. I also do it on different Facebook group about stocks. I created a reddit account and Stockwitts and even Yahoo Finance. I only share the site link and create a short caption.

On our third days he chatted me that the traffic I created is not so good because on his analytics there's like 20 person who click the site link and a few people on the search engine. Then he said try to promote in Pinterest because it's good to have traffic there. I created a Pinterest account under the website name and try to promote 22 articles and even suggested that I will edit the pins so that people will have an idea what the pin is all about.

So after one week our contract ended just like that. I am little sorry for my self and him because I didn't reach the quota traffic which is 500 people. But on the other hand I know that I do the job because I keep sharing the article on different social media platform and that's what the description of his job. I am having a hard time for the traffic because he needs a people from US , UK and Canada so it's not possible to promote it here and I think the skills for that is not for the 5$.

So yeah the project ended. I gave 5$ on my Upwork account and I don't know if when is the next time that I will try to apply again because having a client is not so easy pala unlike here that you can write anytime.