A dedicated Upwork bidder for freelancers and agencies in Cape Town.
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Improvexus is an Upwork bidding agency. If you're a Cape Town freelancer selling video & animation, web development and virtual assistance, 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 Cape Town is known for, and what it means for your bid.
Cape Town has South Africa's most active startup scene and an international film and commercial production industry. It also has a large customer-service outsourcing sector that works for British and European companies. Both creative and technical freelancers find overseas clients from there.
Video, animation & creative production
What clients screen forA reel in the same style and length as the brief. A client who wants a 30-second product video won't sit through a wedding montage.
How we open the proposalLink the one piece that's most similar. Say what you need from the client, such as footage, a script or brand assets, and give a delivery date along with the number of revision rounds.
Web & software development
What clients screen forA finished project in the same stack, and some sign that you read the technical brief properly. Clients in this category have often been let down by a developer who said yes to everything.
How we open the proposalName the stack and the hardest part of the brief in your first two lines. Link one build that's close to it and say what the first milestone would deliver.
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.
When Upwork's clients start work, in Cape Town time.
When clients on the US East Coast start work at 9:00 am, it is 3:00 pm in Cape Town. That falls inside your own working day, so timing is on your side. What decides the job is how good the proposal is.
- City
- Cape Town
- Province
- Western Cape
- Time zone
- UTC+2
- Local currency
- South African rand (ZAR)
| 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 |
Our team works on Pakistan Standard Time, which is 3 hours ahead of Cape Town. 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 South Africa.
Questions people ask us.
Do you work with freelancers in Cape Town?
Yes. We work remotely with freelancers and agencies in Cape Town and across South Africa. Our team works on Pakistan Standard Time, which is 3 hours ahead of Cape Town. We handle targeting, proposals and weekly reports online.
What kind of work do you bid for from Cape Town?
We bid in any category you sell on Upwork. The work Cape Town is best known for is video & animation, web development and virtual assistance, and each of those is bid in its own way. Take video & animation as an example. Clients in that category look for this: a reel in the same style and length as the brief. A client who wants a 30-second product video won't sit through a wedding montage.
Can I visit your office in Cape Town?
We don't have an office in Cape Town. 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 South Africa, 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.