Why I Use Upwork Direct Contracts for Clients

Business needs can be so intricate, and every business is unique. From marketing the products to optimizing for sales, most businesses need flexible services on demand. And freelancers are challenged with having every option listed and available.

Which often still leaves you with questions about what services can be added, taken out and or tweaked for your business needs. Upwork solves the time-consuming administrative problem with Direct Contracts. A simple and secure method to book freelancers.

No need to build an entire profile either. Upwork handles it all with just your email and a preferred payment method. Once a contract is accepted, you gain access to a secure dashboard with:

⏱️ – Time based tracker
🎯 – Task lists
📨 – Chat messenger, video calls, and file sharing
📊 – Advanced reporting and tracking

The dashboard keeps us connected along the timeline of the project. That way you can review updates as they are implemented and conveniently reach us as well.

Direct contracts serve your business with fully customized tasks as you request them from the start. Complete with detailed deliverables, hourly or fixed pricing, due dates, and descriptive outlines called milestones. All conveniently sent directly to your email for you to accept.

To accept the contract, you simply create an Upwork account with an email and fund the project through Upwork’s secure escrow payment holding. This system is designed to streamline the payment process and ensure freelancers get paid as the project is completed.

This gives freelancers a peace of mind and frees our time up to focus on what we do best, serving your business high-quality skills with complete flexibility.

All projects have time trackers, due dates and milestones. Allowing freelancers to complete deliverables in a timely manner while satisfying your budgets.

Upwork’s’ direct contracts serve freelancers through eliminating all of the administrative work with the added benefit of waived service fees, which means we get to keep more of what we earn on the platform too.

Once our project is done, Upwork will automatically ask you to leave feedback on our performance. And whether we want to admit it or not, all freelancers absolutely adore feedback reviews. It is something about seeing how you thought we did, that is the best feeling.

And personally, next to seeing your business grow, it is almost better than the payment. That could fully well just be the digital marketer quirk in me. Well, that and any opportunity to write a case study on the measurable impact of your results.

As freelancers most of what we do is done behind the scenes, which makes your feedback a valuable asset in helping us build our professional reputation and it also helps us rank up a fair bit on Upwork too.  

Plus, once the projects are completed you can request an entirely new custom package at your convenience. I personally review each request and follow up in less than 2 business days.

Also, in the rare case of any disagreements. Upwork does have no fuss dispute assistance support, to resolve any issues and ensure a fair resolution for both parties.

All in all, can freelancers independently send contracts with PayPal payments? Yes. I certainly have taken that route myself. But nowadays, I find that my focus is serving your business.

I wake up each and every day and choose to get straight into the work that is going to move the needle for your business. I have the purpose driven skills that drive impact. And your business has the needs that my skills serve.

And with that let’s focus on collaborating for the growth of your business and leave all of the administrative work for Upwork.

Oftentimes, it is what we choose to do with our time that makes the most difference. And after a few years of developing intrapreneurship skills in corporate and 5+ years entrepreneurship, I prefer doing what serves your business the most, and that is the work.