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What if you could escape the fate of most freelancers: working years for peanuts in constant uncertainty?
Worth 100 Upwork Connects, perhaps? Probably, right?
Good. Here’s the deal. After
- 10 years of full-time freelancing
- 10X’ing my rates starting from $30 per hour
- 7 years of coaching freelancers
- 5 years of blogging about freelancing
- 70 original articles on freelancing
- 200 weekly freelancer polls
- 1,500 LinkedIn posts
- 3,653 morning coconuts
finally, I packaged everything I’ve ever learned into this Upwork freelancing guidebook: ‘Go Straight for Coconuts, Part 1: How to Start Freelancing Without Ever Working for Peanuts’.
The core is my highly efficient approach to using Upwork as a shortcut for building a global freelance business from scratch.
With a print page count of 453(!!!), this total value bomb is more than just a manual for navigating freelance platforms—it’s a manifesto for redefining your value and building a highly profitable niche.
In a sea of millions of freelancers on platforms like Upwork, how do you rise above the noise and earn what your skills are truly worth? The key is to learn business basics first:
- Who can you help most, who are your ideal clients?
- What’s your specific niche?
- How do you differentiate from your competitors?
- How do you land gigs that pay well?
- What does it take to make freelancing a long-lasting career?
Most signing up on Upwork find themselves being stuck without ever getting past working for peanuts.
As a seasoned solopreneur for 10 years straight, I do remember how tough getting started was. I had zero business and a far too academic background that made going solo extremely risky for me in 2014. The only reason I survived my first year was that I figured out a smart approach to doing business on Upwork.
With minimal effort, I earned my first $10,000 from two perfect clients, came to dominate my niche in less than a year, and thus saved my family from a financial disaster. It could have gone horribly wrong had I chosen another way.
Through personal experiences and practical strategies, I demonstrate how I transformed myself from a $30-an-hour freelancer to a $300-an-hour solopreneur. It’s not just about making money—it’s about creating a lifestyle that aligns with your passions and priorities.
Whether you’re a seasoned pro destined to go solo or a fresh graduate dipping your toes into freelancing, my book helps you unlock your potential to earn what you deserve.
I guide you through every step of the journey with humor, wisdom, and a dash of tropical flair. You’ll learn how to use Upwork as a shortcut for creating a profitable niche in the global markets:
- Strategies for dominating your niche early on
- Insights to the client side of the platform
- Tricks for saving money and Connects
- Profile optimization methods
- The formula for winning proposals (+ real-world examples)
- Principles for acing interviews
- Hacks for landing your first gigs
- Rules for maintaining your Job Success Score (JSS) at 100%
- Tactics for raising your rates quickly
- Strategies for staying on top of your game as long as you like
I also share career-saving advice that helps you stay away from trouble in the deep jungles of online freelancing:
- Signing contracts with dangerous client types
- Getting bad reviews
- Communicating poorly with clients
- Paying Upwork for features that don’t help newbies
- Accidentally getting banned
- Facing surprising JSS drops
- Falling for classic scams
I wrote ‘Go Straight for Coconuts, Part 1’ as more than just a manual for navigating freelance platforms—it’s a manifesto for redefining your value and building a highly profitable niche. Freelancers must embrace their unique strengths, turn them into lucrative freelance careers, and thus escape the “race to the bottom” completely.
Reading ‘Go Straight for Coconuts’ is like a voice in your head telling you how to freelance—and how not to. The structure is easy to follow, and the language is written specifically for non-native English speakers.
My book is your coconut-green ticket to success as a starting freelancer!
Sneak peek!
It took about 5 years to put all the materials for ‘Go Straight for Coconuts, Part 1’ together by “cocowriting” one article and one LinkedIn post at a time on weekends. The book is based on over 150,000 words of freelancing tips that are now bundled together in an easy-to-follow structure.
With a whopping size of 453 pages, ‘Go Straight for Coconuts, Part 1’ is the most comprehensive Upwork freelancing guidebook on Amazon and other e-book marketplaces. Take a look at the impact and appreciation the materials for this book have received since the birth of CoachLancer!
If you want to avoid the scenario mentioned in the foreword, you might want to take a look at the other 452 pages!
Get this Upwork freelancing guidebook to save 10 years of trial and error
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Good deal? It is an excellent deal knowing that you never need to work for peanuts ever again! (And you save all those Connects with the tips and strategies you learn from the book.)
Get it for yourself or give it to your friend as a Christmas gift. (In the latter case, simply use your friend’s email for the purchase.)
Who wrote this mile-long e-book? Me. My background story is available here.