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Cannot help your specifically, but there are growing number of cases of people relying on certain platform only to find out that platform burned them at their m
by gesman 14y ago
Cannot help your specifically, but there are growing number of cases of people relying on certain platform only to find out that platform burned them at their mercy at will.
Lessons:
1. All platforms are ought to be used only as a tool, not as a foundation of business. In other words earn trust with your clients and steer them to do business directly with you, without platform-as-a-middleman.
Use platform to gain clients, gain business. Pay fair commission for it's services but don't sell yourself short to platform just because they want you to.
2. Have plan B (or rather platform B) in case platform A failed to deliver, got disgruntled or becomes unruly. Maintain accounts at different platforms as a backup.
3. Platform's TOS is not a law (although they want you to think that) it's a guidance for crowds. Have your own brains.
- ahmedaly 14y agoVery good points! Thats exactly why I am suffering now.. because I relied on them 100% to get business leads. I already have created a list of repetitive customers, but keep in mind that most of the customers are individuals or very small offices that don't need work frequently. So thats why I plan to start my own freelancing website.. to guarantee that I own the source of jobs.