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Here’s how much freelance developers earn
Toptal recently published this handy calculator 🤓 that shows you the average hourly rate of freelancers doing different kinds of dev work. You can even filter it down by years of experience. Average hourly rates for a few select specialties: There’s also a calculator on each specialty page (example), showing you how much you’d earn per year at different…
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$7000 Website Sales Call
Also on YouTube, Rob O’Rourke shares a recorded sales call that lands him a $7000 website project 💰… Admittedly, it’s a warm lead and Rob notes that prospects rarely convert to clients so quick and easy, but there are some good lessons in there nonetheless. In particular, I liked seeing how confidently he dealt with pricing, getting…
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Instagram Influencers + PLR Products = Profit?
A 32-minute YouTube video from a chap named Liam: How To Make Money On Instagram in 2020… He shows you there how he’s generating revenue by getting Instagram Influencers to promote a PLR product. (PLR = private label rights. You basically buy the rights to a pre-made digital product and then sell it for whatever price…
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Digital nomad jobs on Facebook
Here’s a Facebook group posting regular digital nomad job opportunities. A few I found from the past week: It’s a private group but request to join and you should be approved within 24 hours 👍
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How I built a $12k/month online business and traveled the world before my 21st birthday
My family has no entrepreneurs. I had no real solid skills when I started. But I knew I had to get myself sorted if I didn’t want to get a regular 9-to-5 job.
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A Quick Way To Test Your Ideas (Fiverr Hack)
From an interview with Mike Zima on Side Hustle Nation… Mike has developed a theory that he applies to almost all of his [Fiverr] gigs, he calls it “Rapid Prototyping.” What this means is, setting up and testing a gig inside of a lunch break — in just 1 hour. Not getting hung up on analyzing…
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Step-by-step frameworks for sales calls
This one on Reddit is pretty simple and general. The person posting it commented: This saved my life. I was struggling to convert clients until I understood this framework. This framework on YouTube is more in-depth and explained for web designers, though much of it would apply for selling any high-ticket service 💰… The guy who made that…
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This ebook earned $60,000 since Christmas
Daniel Vassallo and a friend wrote a book about Amazon Web Services, launched it on Christmas Day 🎄 and earned $20k in revenue in the first three days alone. Daniel reported earlier this week on Twitter that they’ve now sold about 2000 books and grossed $60k 🤑 Why do you think that ebook did so well when so many others…
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“if your work isn’t online, it doesn’t exist”
The aforementioned YouTuber has almost a quarter million subscribers, so it’s not like anyone can post a similar video and bank $20k. But it highlights a principle I see gaining popularity 📈 It’s a principle Austin Kleon highlighted in his 2014 book, Show Your Work. Key excerpt: It sounds a little extreme, but in this day and…
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One video monetized 8 different ways
About a month ago an artist 🎨 on YouTube published this video: I made a FIVERR page & DRAW ANYTHING people want for $5!!… It has almost a million views and it’s fun to watch. But what really caught my eye was the next-level monetization going on there. I counted no less than 8 different ways he’s making…
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Starlink is a big deal
Starlink is a pet project of Elon Musk, aiming to surround the globe with thousands of low-orbit satellites 🛰 that will give you fast internet access pretty much anywhere. Apparently 240 satellites are already up there. Jeffrey Paul writes: The biggest likely circumstantial impact to you and I: places previously unsuitable for long-term habitation or business development by businesspeople…
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LOIs helped this writer earn $135,288 last year
Jen Miller writes: See that dip in 2017? My big success this year started when I realized my business was in trouble, and I started marketing the heck out of myself. In 2018, I sent more than 500 letters of introduction (LOIs). More than 500! For 2019, 19 clients came from LOIs. Here’s a good resource…
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Small fish, big pond
Would you like to own a business with only 0.34% market share? Doesn’t sound all that appealing, but ConvertKit is just such a business, and they’re doing $1.6 million in monthly recurring revenue and are apparently very profitable 💰💰💰 One Redditor writes: Don’t be afraid to be the 100th company in the RIGHT MARKET. This piece of advice changed my…
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Ask for referrals, not work
Pete McPherson shares a tip that helped him quickly land 2 paid freelance gigs and several leads 🚀
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Here’s how much remote workers earn
According to a new study of 3,500 remote workers: About half of the study participants were located in the USA 🇺🇸 and the rest were scattered around the world 🌍 Comparing the above numbers to individual income in the USA as a whole in 2019 (source): So either remote workers tend to get paid more, or people with higher earning potential tend to…
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