- Deliver a spreadsheet: company, contact name, role, verified business email, LinkedIn profile, and one sentence on why this prospect fits the clients criteria. Fifty to one hundred rows per order is a sane first size. Include a short note on sources and what you could not verify. A list the client can use the same day is worth more than a bigger list that bounces.
- Agree the ideal customer profile in writing before you start: industry, size, geography, job titles. Have Muse build the search plan and draft the first pass from public sources: company sites, LinkedIn, press releases. Then verify each email and role yourself, and drop anything uncertain. Report your verification rate honestly. Speed comes from the system; trust comes from the checking.
- Upwork charges freelancers a flat 10% service fee on earnings, and proposals cost Connects at about $0.15 each, so bid only on jobs you genuinely fit. Price at $40 to $75 an hour as a starting range, and expect the first two or three jobs to go cheaper in exchange for five-star reviews. Never buy lists and resell them, and never scrape behind logins: one policy violation can end the account. Reviews are the asset; the first ones are the price of admission.
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