Clients on freelance platforms receive 50+ copy-pasted proposals an hour. If you start with "Dear Hiring Manager," you are already ignored. Here is how to stand out in the preview text.
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Example: "you need to migrate your database from MongoDB to Postgres without downtime"
Example: "I did this exact migration for a fintech client last month in under 4 hours"
Tactical Note: Step 1: The Initial Proposal. Upwork truncates proposals. By mentioning their specific problem in the very first sentence, they read it in the preview window.
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