Paid $200 for a profile optimization service on Upwork and got zero invites

I dropped $200 on a popular gig that promised to rewrite my Upwork profile and boost my job invites last month. All I got was a generic template with buzzwords like 'results-driven' that made me sound like a robot. Has anyone else wasted money on these so-called profile experts? I'd love to know if any actually work.

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the_laura14d ago

I spent $75 on one and got the exact same generic template, but then I just studied profiles of top earners in my niche and rewrote mine mimicking their structure. That got me three invites in two weeks, way more than the paid gig ever did.

faithpatel14d ago

Yeah that tracks, paid ones are usually just copy-paste garbage.

kelly_rivera14d ago

Wait, only $75? And you actually got invites after studying the top profiles yourself? That's wild to me because I paid almost triple that and got nothing but a bunch of filler words that made me sound like every other desperate freelancer on there. I feel like these "experts" just copy and paste the same five templates they found on a blog somewhere. Makes me wonder if any of them have even gotten a single job off Upwork themselves. Seriously considering just doing what you did and spending an afternoon stalking the top earners instead.