Courtney Allen always knew she could make a living building PowerPoints. With the help of platforms like Upwork, she's brought in $2 million creating them.
Her personal contracts and those of her company have now brought in more than $2 million on Upwork.'It's hard to break in when you don't have any reviews'"It's hard to break in when you don't have any reviews or experience on the platform," she says. But she applied to as many job postings as she could, tweaked her cover letters and, eventually, started booking clients.
But she was also working overtime — some weeks as much as 80 hours in total. "That's when I decided I needed to start bringing in contractors," she says.When it came to finding talent to help her tackle the workload, she'd kept in touch with people from her Cisco days and reached out to gauge their interest. Five agreed, and she's since brought on four other people. All are now working full-time as either contractors or employees.
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