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Upwork bidding agency for freelancers and agencies in South Africa.
You get a dedicated Upwork bidder for your account. We choose jobs using a targeting profile we agree with you, write each proposal to the client's brief and send you a weekly report of what went out and what happened.
What's different about bidding on Upwork from South Africa.
- Time zone
- UTC+2
- Local currency
- South African rand (ZAR)
- Cities covered
- 4
- How we work
- Remotely, online
South Africa shares most of its working day with the UK and Europe and has a strong English-language services sector. South African freelancers are well placed for British and European clients, and for the first half of the American day.
The rand is weaker than the dollar, so it's tempting to compete on price. The South African freelancers who do best sell on quality and communication, and their proposals have to make that case in the first two lines.
When clients start work, in Johannesburg time.
When clients on the US East Coast start work at 9:00 am, it is 3:00 pm in Johannesburg. That falls inside your own working day, so timing is on your side. What decides the job is how good the proposal is. Our team works on Pakistan Standard Time, which is 3 hours ahead of Johannesburg.
| Client market | Their 9:00 am is | Their 5:00 pm is | For you that is |
|---|---|---|---|
| US East Coast (New York) | 3:00 pm | 11:00 pm | the working day |
| US West Coast (San Francisco) | 6:00 pm | 2:00 am (next day) | the evening |
| United Kingdom (London) | 10:00 am | 6:00 pm | the working day |
| Australia (east) (Sydney) | 12:00 am | 8:00 am | the night |
Upwork bidders for every major city in South Africa.
The cities are grouped by province. Each city page tells you what its freelancers are known for, how that changes the bid and when the main client markets start work in local time.
What a dedicated Upwork bidder does for you.
Picks the jobs first
We agree a written targeting profile with you. It covers categories, your lowest budget, client history and warning signs, and it decides which jobs are worth your Connects.
Covers the hours you can't
Someone watches the feed across the time zones your clients post in, so good jobs get an answer while they're still new.
Writes to the brief
Each proposal opens with the client's problem and the piece of your past work that's closest to it. We don't paste templates.
Shows you the record
We log every proposal, view, reply and interview and go through them with you each week. You see real counts.
Questions people ask us.
Do you work with freelancers and agencies in South Africa?
Yes. We work remotely with freelancers and agencies across South Africa, including Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria. Our team works on Pakistan Standard Time, which is 3 hours ahead of Johannesburg.
Do you have an office in South Africa?
No. Improvexus is based in Pakistan and works with clients in South Africa remotely. We handle the targeting, the proposals and the weekly reports online. We'd sooner tell you that plainly than pretend to be around the corner.
Do you guarantee jobs?
No. The hiring decision is the client's and nobody can promise it. What we commit to is the work, which means the targeting, the proposals and a weekly record, and we show you what came of it.
Tell us about your account.
Send your Upwork profile link and what you want to improve. We read your profile before we reply.