Alex Fasulo signed up for Fiverr.com in 2015 hoping to earn an extra $50 a month. She listed a single gig offering to write press releases for just $5. Her plan was to secure a high rating and an excellent reputation on the site. When she quit her high stress PR job after just a month, she turned to her Fiverr dashboard, offered a few more services and woke up to a new business. 

Fast forward five years and Alex has earned over a million dollars on the platform. She shares everything she's learned through an ebook, courses and hundreds of sub-one minute videos on TikTok.

This episode is packed with inspiration, candor and no-nonsense advice about how to launch a lucrative business as a freelancer. Alex is a force in the best way and I think you'll love her personality as much as I do.

In spite of having actual professional writing skills, Alex initially and strategically set her prices low as a freelancer to generate a flood of 5 star reviews and encourages all new creators and other service providers on the platform to do the same. Every aspect of her journey was self-taught and hard-earned.

• copy writing
• long form writing
• multiple industry-specific content
• basic SEO and keyword research
• client on-boarding
• marketing
• time management
• delegating
• branding
• styling
• photography
• hiring/vetting/training writers to scale her business
• systems

Jared Easley shares the origin story and what tools and skills he and his business partner deployed to plan, crowdfund and organize Podcast Movement, the first and most important event for podcasters and podcast-related services in the world.

Jared and I discussed some skills that he relied on or acquired to validate, plan, execute and grow Podcast Movement. Here are just a few of the skills we identified.

• Connecting with people and building relationships by helping them
• Communication
• Self-publishing
• Interviewing
• Organizing small meet-ups
• Writing 
• Follow-through
• Reaching out without expecting something in return
• Action in spite of fear
• Validating a concept
• Crowdfunding
• email marketing
• Networking

• Podcast Movement 
• Jared's Podcast, Starve the Doubts
• Connect with Jared on Twitter
• Jared's books: "Good to Great How to Grow Your Audience Through Collaboration" and "Stop Chasing Influencers"

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