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Hard Work Pays Off. 🚀
Big thank you to my clients around the world and the @Contra HQ team for the trust and support.
Be yourself.
Follow your interests.
Push your clients forward, and guide them.
As a designer and creative, your job isn’t just to deliver.
It’s to lead. To make things better.
Consistently at 5.0, not because I just deliver.
Because I always push for better.
That’s the difference.
And that’s what I pass on.
Let’s go. 🌍
I need a job badly! My family is under financial crisis.
If anyone help me to get any job related my skill-sets. That will be a great opportunity for me.
I will do my work & give efforts with honesty and dedication.
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Congratulations 🎊. Whats that one advise you can give me, with zero hires starting out on contra.
Congratulations Deniz, more to come 🎉
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Hey Contra Community! I'm Thi, a Creative Director and UX/UI Designer based in Brazil with over a decade of experience working with clients across the US, Latin America, and beyond.
I've built brands from zero, designed dashboards and SaaS interfaces, led marketing strategy for startups in regulated industries, and taught branding and UX at university level. My work lives at the intersection of strategy and craft - I care as much about why something looks the way it does as how it looks.
Currently available for UX/UI, brand identity, and creative direction projects. If you're building something and need a designer who thinks like a strategist, let's talk.
Welcome to the community, Thiago! 🙌
🚨 I'm making the full switch from Upwork to Contra — and honestly? I already get why everyone says it hits different.
Fellow copywriters and freelancers, be real with me for a second.
How many of you are just... tired? Tired of platforms skimming big cuts off the top, burying your proposals under a hundred others, and sending you clients who treat great writing like it's worth five bucks and a thank-you?
I lived in that loop longer than I should have. Endless revision rounds. Rates that kept sliding lower. Watching generic AI output land jobs that genuinely deserved real human persuasion behind them.
So I stopped waiting and went all-in on Contra.
No platform fees eating into my income. Creative clients who actually give a damn. A community that talks about craft — not just output volume.
I'm still early in this. No massive wins to shout about yet. But the difference in the quality of conversations alone? Night and day. The founders showing up here are a completely different breed.
Here's what I'm focusing on right now to build real momentum — take whatever's useful:
1. Value posts over spray-and-pray proposals. One genuinely helpful post sparks better conversations than 50 applications nobody opens.
2. My profile is my sales page — and I'm treating it like one. Clear services, strong samples, and a bio that actually sounds like a person wrote it. Contra's discovery feed rewards authenticity. Generic doesn't cut it here.
3. Leaning hard into warm, trust-building, conversational copy. Because that's still the one thing that consistently beats pure AI in 2026 — and clients are starting to feel that gap more than ever. They don't just need words on a page. They need copy that makes someone feel something and then do something.
Whether you're based in Dubai like me or freelancing from a coffee shop on the other side of the world — Contra feels like it actually levels the playing field, as long as you show up with intention and keep showing up.
Here's the honest 2026 take: the copywriters winning right now aren't fighting AI. They're using it as a tool while bringing the warm, persuasive, results-driven voice that no model has fully figured out yet — and probably won't for a while.
What's one thing you're changing or doubling down on in your freelance work this year? Drop it in the comments 👇 — and tag a copywriter or freelancer who needs to be in this conversation.
Let's make #freelancerlife actually useful for people. #freelancerlife #copywriting #copywriter #Contra #freelancecopywriter #copywritingtips
Excellent insights and Welcome to Contra! From my experience, I got on Contra 10 months ago and there is no going back. All the best!
I am testing out the algorithm of @Contra HQ and trying different strategies to see how fast we can grow. I am keeping my profile updated, posting new projects regularly, applying to new jobs, and interacting with other members regularly.
If you are interested in finding out about the progress, hit the follow button so I can keep you guys updated.
A bit about me?
* Top-rated UI UX Designer with over $50k earnings on Upwork 🙌
* Level 1 Seller on Fiverr 🙌
* Based in Pakistan đź’Ż
Uploading my recent contest-based app design in Figma. 🔥
Check it out and follow my journey!
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