Upland Kapost vs Upwork

• Filtering: If you make the most out of your custom details and custom fields, you can gain newfound access to materials that may have long been lost in the ether. It's really easy for us, for instance, to see all of our videos at once. Or everything targeting a certain buying stage. Or you can keyword search to see everything on one topic.
• Workflows: It's really nice to lay out "who sees what when" in a digital way, because everyone involved on an asset can easily see what stage things are at. You can also set deadlines to tasks, which seems a bit more firm than a casual email, because you can visually see how meeting your deadline fits within the whole timeline.
• Calendars: The calendar feature is nice for us because we have a blog, so we can see when everything is (supposed) to go live. It's easy to see when I, as a copy editor, should be expecting work, so I can align my day accordingly. Way better than the old-fashioned "mental note" system.

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• Messaging service is available in a browser, Windows, and Android, so I can communicate with clients wherever I go.
• Project searching is very powerful, which makes it easy for me to find projects to bid on.
• Scaled project fees make great sense for long-term commitments.
• Ratings and feedback system make it easier to spot good clients.
• Tech support is active and always responsive.

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• Social media distribution needs improvement. Specifically a calendar for planned Tweets and a better way to schedule multiple shares of the same content.
• System performance is somewhat slow.
• Should be an easier way to make changes, like adding custom fields or publication destinations, to all content types, rather than one at a time.

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• Upwork is pricey, they take 10% of every transaction of the freelancer, and if you have a premium membership the cost gets higher.
• Doing your first freelancer job can be difficult since there are so many freelancers on that website, so be prepared to set a really low rate at first.
• The website can be a bit laggy. I have lost some jobs just because I'm not able to load the information before the clock finishes just because of some lag issues.

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• It allows us all to compare other email campaigns to each other. We are also able to get almost instant results.
• By having a working one system - we all can expect the same quality newsletters versus using an outside designer.

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• Upwork takes a cut from revenue, but it's not devastating. After maintaining a large contract for a long time, that percentage they take is lessened.
• This percentage they take, however, makes us not want to add clients we find outside of Upwork to that platform.

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