Steal my Upwork Pitch Letter that bagged me $300 on my first day on the website

Upwork. Look, I'm not going to do the whole "I'm a digital nomad" thing. I'm a housewife in San Diego with two kids and an husband. However, when I get up from my desk to the couch, throw a blanket over my legs and start typing on my fancy MacBook Pro, I feel like a digital nomad sometimes.

But that's not why you're here. You're here for the numbers, you see it. I bagged $300 on my FIRST DAY on Upwork. I never really took the website seriously and the FIRST DAY I tried, I knocked it out of the park swinging.

I need to preface that I am a writer, maybe you saw it on the front page? I'm a Copywriter. So, naturally, I thought that the competition was going to be fierce. I didn't have ANY reviews or recommendations and I sure as hell didn't have any Copy examples ready. I was on my own, for lack of a better term.

 So how did I do it?

I crafted a pitch letter that was short, sweet, and to the point. A pitch letter that took seconds to read but lasted in your mind. And this is how I wrote it.

Hello and good morning/afternoon (depending on where they are)

I would be perfect for your project! I have trained myself to write 2000 words in only 1 hour and would be able to present a finished blog post or Copy within 24 hours or less! I would love to show you what I can do! Let me know if we would be a great fit to work together! 

Thanks, all the best, Shaine Smith.

That's it. That's the letter.

Now I can hear it now: "Shaine, I can't write 2000 words an hour". First of all, skill issue. Second of all, yes you can, you're just going to... how do I say it... fan it out. The way you're going to word this, once they pick you for the project, is you're going to tell them "I take 1 to 2 hours to research your topic before I start writing." This gives you 2 hours of buffer time to not only do some actual quick research but jot some notes down about what you're going to write before you write it.

Any author or copywriter worth their salt writes notes before they write anyways.

Second, you're gonna write. And It's going to suck. Put on that 5-hour long YouTube documentary, I recommend this one, and start writing. It's called work for a reason. There's no such thing as getting a job and sitting around until you're paid, you gotta write and you gotta do it.

And then after you're done writing like your life depended on it, you're going to submit it into the messages for review just in case they need a revision. Because if they need a revision and you just submitted it willy nilly, they are going to be mad and pissy and we don't want that. We want happy entrepreneurs that are going to use our Copy we wrote them (and pay us).

Remember, keep it short, keep it classy in the pitch, and don't lie about the 2000 words if you don't want to, but DO REMEMBER you do have options.