Is it worth to put payments in Escrow when the total project is about $50-100? I mean they charge fees too. Moreover, very few clients are willing to pay upfront. Here comes the main problem..
That's not my experience at all. Any new client I've ever taken on has paid up-front, because I've never worked any other way. But it's never caused a problem for me. (To be honest, most existing/long-term clients pay up-front too, because it doesn't make any difference to them anyway, once we know and trust one another).