A dedicated Upwork bidder for freelancers and agencies in Manila.
Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
Improvexus is an Upwork bidding agency. If you're a Manila freelancer selling virtual assistance, accounting & finance and design, we pick the jobs that are worth your Connects, get to them while they're new and write each proposal to the client's brief.
What Manila is known for, and what it means for your bid.
Manila is the heart of the outsourcing industry in the Philippines, with decades of experience working for American companies. On Upwork, Filipino freelancers are best known for customer support and virtual assistance, where prices are under constant pressure. Building your profile around one specialised process is how you get out of that.
Virtual assistance & customer support
What clients screen forReliability, overlap with their working hours and good written English. These clients are hiring for the long term, so they read a proposal for care and aren't looking for flair.
How we open the proposalSay which hours you cover in the client's time zone and name the tools from their brief that you already use. Then describe one process you ran from start to finish for a past client.
Accounting, finance & bookkeeping
What clients screen forThe right country and the right software, because a US bookkeeper and a UK one can't be swapped for each other. They also look for signs that you're careful with financial records.
How we open the proposalName the accounting system and the country you work in. Describe a client of a similar size and explain how you'd handle access to their books.
Design & branding
What clients screen forA portfolio piece from the client's own industry. Design clients look before they read, so the wrong sample can lose you the job before your first sentence.
How we open the proposalAttach the one piece of past work that's closest. Describe the problem it solved and leave the tools out, then say how many concepts and revision rounds the price covers.
When Upwork's clients start work, in Manila time.
When clients on the US East Coast start work at 9:00 am, it is 9:00 pm in Manila. That's the evening, when most people are finishing for the day. The best jobs go up just when you're least likely to be watching.
- City
- Manila
- Province
- Metro Manila
- Time zone
- UTC+8
- Local currency
- Philippine peso (PHP)
| Client market | Their 9:00 am is | Their 5:00 pm is | For you that is |
|---|---|---|---|
| US East Coast (New York) | 9:00 pm | 5:00 am (next day) | the evening |
| US West Coast (San Francisco) | 12:00 am (next day) | 8:00 am (next day) | the night |
| United Kingdom (London) | 4:00 pm | 12:00 am (next day) | the working day |
| Australia (east) (Sydney) | 6:00 am | 2:00 pm | the early morning |
Our team works on Pakistan Standard Time, which is 3 hours behind Manila. The practical fix for the clock above is a bidder who covers the hours when you're away from your desk. You can read how our bidding works, or see how the market differs across the country on our page about the Upwork bidding agency in the Philippines.
Questions people ask us.
Do you work with freelancers in Manila?
Yes. We work remotely with freelancers and agencies in Manila and across the Philippines. Our team works on Pakistan Standard Time, which is 3 hours behind Manila. We handle targeting, proposals and weekly reports online.
What kind of work do you bid for from Manila?
We bid in any category you sell on Upwork. The work Manila is best known for is virtual assistance, accounting & finance and design, and each of those is bid in its own way. Take virtual assistance as an example. Clients in that category look for this: reliability, overlap with their working hours and good written English. These clients are hiring for the long term, so they read a proposal for care and aren't looking for flair.
Can I visit your office in Manila?
We don't have an office in Manila. Improvexus is based in Pakistan and we run every engagement online, so where you live doesn't change how we work together.
How do we get started?
Fill in the enquiry form with your Upwork profile link and what you want to improve. We read your profile first. Then we reply by email or WhatsApp with what we'd change and how working together would go.
Other cities we cover in the Philippines, nearest first.
Tell us about your account.
Send your Upwork profile link and what you want to improve. We read your profile before we reply.