Sadly i only ever had 2 clients outside of Upwork, both purely randomly (having a website etc), and Upwork makes me $600K a year with very little effort... Also i have an agency, i don't work myself, plus i am in EU not US, and have a Russian passport with no right to work outside of my own company. So i really can't imagine how it might work. Any client i could potentially meet with in person is already someone who can't pass my client pre-vetting filter.
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Sadly i only ever had 2 clients outside of Upwork, both purely randomly (having a website etc), and Upwork makes me $600K a year with very little effort... Also i have an agency, i don't work myself, plus i am in EU not US, and have a Russian passport with no right to work outside of my own company. So i really can't imagine how it might work. Any client i could potentially meet with in person is already someone who can't pass my client pre-vetting filter.
For me, Upwork === addressable market.