Extremely slow buisness on PPH since last 2 months
Is someone else is witnessing extremely low jobs here or its just me??? Please give some feedback
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I have not had a new project on PPH since July. It started slowing down for me long before 2 months ago, but it wasn't this bad. There seems to be a big drop in the number of projects, and also in the value of the projects and what there is always have a lot of bids, and most of the projects I do bid on are not awarded.
If it wasn't for the handful of existing clients with repeat work I would probably stop looking here for work, because it is a waste of time.
I started with PPH 5 years ago and once I managed to get a few projects and get some ranking I could find some work each week. I'm not sure when things started to get worse. I think it was gradual until the Covid pandemic started and then the work dried up, but it has continued to get worse. -
I think it is the other way round and the 14 day policy is a result of PPH having far less work going through the platform and it is a sign of financial difficulties. My work had slowed down a lot a full year before the 14 day policy came in.
Personally, I'm surprised PPH are still here. I can only assume their running costs are very low and they can survive with very little work. I can't survive like this and am looking for something else to do. -
A month ago I would have agreed with you, when the 14 days policy came and they were not paying on time my income dropped via the site but, it didn't really bother me as PPH is not my main income. It picked back up for me to where I was before there were payment issues. I find the buy it now services a better option to go down on the site and do not get caught up in pricing wars. I never bid on projects as this is where the low-cost provider go and you have no chance.
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Busier than ever? I think the real problem is, whether most want to admit it or not, is that most freelancers ask clients to pay outside of PPH. They want access to new clients and work etc, but dont want to pay a fee for these. So PPH, quite rightly, have started penalising freelancers that do this, and pushing freelancers that put all clients met through PPH actually through PPH. My average project is £200, and turning over £10k a month on PPH minimum, every month. I get paid within 1-3 days by PPH as well as they reward people who work with them
I look at other freelancer accounts that complain on here about payment times etc, and guess what, they put maybe 1 job through the site every 6 months! Yet they are active and you can see them sending proposals for jobs all the time. But then none of those jobs seem to appear on their profiles? Why is that?
If you want to meet new clients and win more work, and get paid very quickly then follow PPH rules. If you dont then dont complain when you suffer loss of income
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I can only speak from my own experience and I have been "active" on PPH since June. In the first half of the year I wasn't looking too seriously because there was so little work and I decided to do some decorating to make constructive use of my time. I came back here in June because I had an existing client wanting follow up work, and after that I started logging in continuously and monitoring the new projects, scanning through them every morning and sometimes throughout the day. Since then I have had exactly two new projects, one of which was last week, the other was in July. I have also had some small but steady repeat work from an existing client.
I have never been a big earner on PPH but 3 or 4 years ago I could expect £500 in a month, if most of my work for that month was coming from PPH. If I was actively looking for work I could usually find something within a day or two and I realised that it was better to let some of the lower value projects pass by and wait for something better. That's all gone now for the type of work I do. I only work on projects that are posted, because my work won't fit into an offer. The number of projects available on the site is now consistently around 3000. I'm not certain what it was 3 or 4 years ago but I believe it was over 10,000 and may have been 12,000. It is not just about having fewer projects to apply for, there are more freelancers per project, making it harder to win the ones that are posted. The budgets are down as well so even if a project is the right type of work it is rarely worth submitting a proposal.
I'm hoping that last week is a sign of things changing, and not just an exception. I had a decent project here, lots of views on my profile compared to the last 3 months, a direct enquiry from someone viewing my profile and then two little jobs on Upwork. I wouldn't touch Upwork if I could get a reasonable amount of work here.
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