Josh Burns Tech

12/14/2025

Southern lights 2025 🎄❄️

09/24/2025

Happy 10th Birthday to my son, Clark ❤️

It’s hard to put into words the love I have for him. God knew I needed him and he’s been with me through the worst times of my life. It’s an answered prayer that he’s 10 today. I’ve prayed over him numerous times and I’m so grateful for his presence in my life.

He loves hugs, going on car rides, playing with his mountain of toys, barking at animals on the TV, running around the farm, and digging in the bed. Today will be filled with things that he loves most.

What’s hard to comprehend is that God’s love for us is immensely stronger. Thinking about how much I love Clark and knowing that God loves me a million times more than that feeling is hard to understand. We won’t know that feeling until we meet Him one day.

So Happy 10th Birthday, Clark! I love you endlessly ❤️

03/25/2024

Many Freelancers reading this will become Top Rated this year

You’re one of them 🔥

01/08/2024

Just hit the biggest milestone of my career, $1 Million earned on Upwork!!! 🎉😭💰Today is a day that I will never forget.

Here are 5 things that helped me get here and hopefully they will help you too 👇

1. Play the long game

My first job on Upwork paid $25/hour and I had to submit 43 proposals to land it. But I didn't care, I was beyond excited that someone was paying me money to work from the comfort of my home. Be grateful that you are living in a time like this.

2. Consistency and Discipline are a winning combo

If you want to be successful on Upwork, you have to be more consistent and disciplined than the average freelancer. Take some of your leisure time away and invest it into your freelance business.

3. Being a good person is more important than you think

I like to think that I have pretty good self-awareness. My goal is for my clients to like working with me as a person and to fully trust me.

Reputation >>> Money

4. Offer a weekly or monthly service package

The bulk of my freelance money comes from weekly or monthly maintenance packages. After I complete a job on Upwork, I message the client and pitch a weekly or monthly SQL Server maintenance retainer. This has a very high conversion rate for me. If you add value to a business or solve a problem for them, there's a high chance they will want to work with you long-term.

5. Add additional streams of income

When I started freelancing, I had a full-time job as a SQL Server DBA making over $70k/year. This allowed me to build my freelance business on the side without having to constantly stress about money. There's nothing wrong with having a full-time job. I had two SQL Server DBA jobs before switching to full-time freelancing and my second one paid over $113k/year. I also make money every month from YouTube, affiliate marketing, mentoring/coaching, dividends, and plan to add courses this year.

The more income diversity you have, the less financial stress you will have

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I promise to share everything that's worked for me 💚

11/24/2021

🔥LinkedIn just launched a global freelance platform!

The new LinkedIn freelance marketplace lets you create a service page to showcase your skills for companies looking to hire freelance talent.

The Service Marketplace is launching with 250 job categories with plans to expand that to 500. At present, LinkedIn's freelance service marketplace is missing a lot of features that exist on platforms like Upwork and Fiverr.

💔Out of all the current limitations, the biggest one for me is freelancers not being able to search for jobs. Clients can find you on LinkedIn, but you cannot find them. That means the freelance service marketplace is currently 100% invite-only, like Fiverr and the Upwork project catalog.

💰For the foreseeable future, Upwork and Fiverr will continue leading the way and at the moment LinkedIn does not pose any threat to them. Upwork actually just had a massive 3rd quarter with revenue up 32%.

👏However, even with all the missing features, as a full-time freelancer, I love this move by LinkedIn. It shows firsthand how rapidly the freelance workforce is growing and evolving.

📺Go check out my full LinkedIn service marketplace video review by clicking on the link below in my comments.

09/24/2021

UPWORK MISTAKES 71% of Freelancers make & how to fix them!

I honestly have no idea how many hours that I put into this video. Definitely over 10 hours just from editing.

If you need help on , don't miss out on this one! (link in comments section below)

09/13/2021

In this blog post (🔗 below in comments section), I’m going to show you 5 EASY Upwork jobs for beginners that you can start now.

In a world that’s full of layoffs, unemployment, and tremendous uncertainly, having multiple streams of income will help prepare you for whatever life throws your way.

By getting over my fear of failure and just taking a chance at freelancing, I was able to increase my yearly income from $50,000 to over $200,000 within a year.

Get started today.

09/07/2021

✅Passed $700k Earned on Upwork! Here are 5 HUGE Proposal Tips!

If you are struggling to win jobs on Upwork, these tips will help take you to the next level.

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09/01/2021

Ironically I had this edition of queued up for a about a month not realizing it would fall on the same week Josh would hit two major milestones: $700k earned on the platform and Expert Vetted designation.

Josh is a SQL freelancer, Youtuber and SQL/Crypto/Freelance coach.

His YouTube page, Josh Burns Tech has over 70k subscribers.

And his advice on how to become a successful freelancer is applicable to all industries.

If you don’t already follow him, make sure you do so today. This is a man you need to know.

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08/27/2021

My Upwork profile received a long-awaited update today!

🙌Finally made it into the expert-vetted program, which represents the top 1% of talent on Upwork.

08/18/2021

🔥Finally installed the LED light strips that had been sitting in the box on my desk for months.