Upwork Freelancers Needed for Research Study — Share 2 Past Proposal Cases

UPWORK PROPOSAL RESEARCH STUDY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THE RESEARCH I am conducting a research study into real Upwork applications to better understand the differences between successful proposals and proposals that receive no client response. I am looking for active Upwork freelancers who can provide TWO genuine past application cases from their own Upwork history. This is a research task. You will NOT be asked to write a new proposal or complete development work. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE TWO CASES I NEED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CASE 1 — SUCCESSFUL / HIRED • A job you applied to yourself (cold application, NOT a client invitation) • The client was a NEW client you had not previously worked with • Your application ultimately resulted in you being HIRED CASE 2 — UNSUCCESSFUL / NO RESPONSE • A job you applied to yourself (cold application, NOT a client invitation) • The client was a NEW client you had not previously worked with • You received NO client response, message, interview or offer • You were NOT hired Ideally, both cases should relate to: • Python • Backend development • APIs • AI / LLMs • Automation • SaaS • Related software-development work ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT TO PROVIDE FOR EACH CASE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ For BOTH cases, please provide: 1. Original job post / job description 2. Actual proposal you submitted — NOT rewritten or recreated from memory 3. Application date or approximate date 4. Advertised client budget / hourly rate 5. Your submitted bid / rate, where available 6. Whether the proposal was viewed, if known 7. Any relevant information still visible, such as applicant numbers, Connects / boosting information or timing, where available 8. Final outcome ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SUCCESSFUL CASE PROGRESSION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ For the SUCCESSFUL case, please also provide the progression where known. For example: Proposal submitted → Viewed → Client message / conversation → Interview → Offer → Hired Not every stage needs to have occurred. I want to record what actually happened. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ NO-RESPONSE CASE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ For the UNSUCCESSFUL case, please confirm that you received NO communication from the client. This means: • No client message / reply • No interview • No offer • No hire ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ORIGINAL EVIDENCE IS IMPORTANT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I am studying genuine historical applications. Please DO NOT recreate a proposal or job description from memory if you no longer have the original. Screenshots or copied text are acceptable where appropriate. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SHORT REFLECTION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ For each case, I will also ask you to briefly explain why YOU THINK the application succeeded or received no response. Your interpretation is useful research context, but it will be treated separately from the factual application evidence. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRIVACY & CONFIDENTIALITY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Please protect client confidentiality. Client names, company names and other identifying information may be removed or anonymised. Do NOT provide passwords, confidential information, or private communications that you are not permitted to share. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PAYMENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Starting fixed-price payment: $10 FOR BOTH COMPLETED CASES If you are happy with $10, please state: "$10 accepted" If you are interested but would require a higher payment, PLEASE STILL APPLY and state the minimum fixed price you would accept. Requesting a higher amount does NOT automatically disqualify you. I will consider your requested price alongside the relevance and quality of the cases you can provide. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BEFORE APPLYING — PLEASE CHECK ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✓ Both applications came from YOUR OWN Upwork account ✓ You have ONE hired case AND ONE genuine no-response case ✓ Both were cold applications rather than invitations ✓ Both involved new clients rather than previous clients ✓ You still have the ORIGINAL job descriptions ✓ You still have the ACTUAL proposals you submitted ✓ The successful case resulted in an actual hire ✓ The unsuccessful case received no client response ✓ You are comfortable sharing the evidence for research purposes with identifying/confidential information removed