The white-glove solution for agencies wanting to setup Upwork as a predictable acquisition channel and add over $100K of revenue every year - WITHOUT adding extra employees or spending hundreds of hours every month on outreach.
Our system will bring you qualified leads on auto-pilot, all you need to do is close and print money!
This is the beginning of the highest ROI sales channel you will own.
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We run an agency (mvpmasters.com) that does over $700K a year with over 60% margin.
To be exact - last calendar year (2024) we did $705,675. Screenshot below 👇
A screenshot of our financial dashboard showing our stats from 01/01/2024 to 12/31/2024.
| Channel | Project | Revenue | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upwork | iOS Sports Social App | $209,000 | $10K MVP that turned into $15.5K monthly retainer |
| Upwork | Proptech MVP in Real Estate | $16,000 | One-time MVP delivery |
| Upwork | Fractional CTO Consultation | $1,000 | Three 1-hour sessions (consulting) |
| Upwork | iOS Frontend Build for Crypto Digital Wallet | $14,000 | Helping an internal dev team to increase output and meet deadline |
| Total - Upwork | $240,000 | 34% of total rev | |
| Other Channels | Marketplace for re-selling goods and services (think E-bay) | $69,468 | This was an inbound lead. |
| Other Channels | Memorial service web app | $60,784 | Lead came from a dev agency community we are part of. |
| Other Channels | Automation and CRM for a dubbing service | $48,000 | Lead came from a conference I visited - VidCon Anaheim |
| Total - Other | $178,252 | 25% of total rev | |
| Existing Clients | ERP & CRM For The Kitchen Cabinet Industry | $115,000 | |
| Existing Clients | E-commerce Web App For The Kitchen Cabinet Industry | $98,000 | |
| Existing Clients | Web & Mobile App in Hospitality | $36,000 | |
| Existing Clients | Fitness App Focused on Elderly People | $18,400 | |
| Total - Clients | $267,400 | 36% of total rev | |
| Total | $705,675 |
…34% of our total revenue in 2024 came from Upwork - with a BRAND NEW account - without any reviews & zero earnings.
That’s the power of Upwork when one invests enough time and resources to develop the platform as a reliable acquisition channel.
Upwork is the only platform where you can proactively find and bid on client work within your niche literally every day.
And these are clients that want a solution to their problem TODAY, meaning short sales cycles and a platform with the biggest collection of Sales-Qualified Leads (SQLs) in the whole world.
Upwork reported 850,000 unique clients and a whopping $4B of GSV (Gross Service Volume) transacted on their platform in 2024 (we all know the real number is significantly larger than reported) - there is also over 200,000 new jobs every month posted on Upwork.
Data taken from Upwork’s Q4 2024 Earnings Call.
That comes at a price - sending a proposal costs anywhere from $1 - $10 depending of the niche or whether you want to boost (stand out) your proposal.
How efficient you are with Upwork Connects is how much ROI you can extract from the platform.
The best players get a positive ROI of over 50X (think spending $1,000 in Upwork Connects to make $50,000 in LTV), and the worst lose money on Upwork.