Making $378K per Year as a Fiverr Freelancer With Alex Fasulo

Nov 8, 2022

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Want to earn six figures as a freelancing online? Learn the best freelancing tips and tricks from self-made Fiverr millionaire and entrepreneur extraordinaire, Alex Fasulo. At age 22, Alex quit her 9-5 job in NYC to dive headfirst into the world of freelancing. Over the next few years, she scaled her business from $35K per year to nearly $400K per year.

In this episode, Alex shares the exact steps she took to become a financially independent freelancer, the most common mistakes new freelancers make, and the six tools she uses to run her freelancing business.

Episode 180 Special Offers:

Take Kristin’s Freelance to Freedom Online Course
Get FREE access to the Expat Money Summit
Buy tickets for the Nomad Island Fest in Portugal
Order your copy of Digital Nomads for Dummies
Pre-order Alex’s new book, Freelance Your Way to Freedom

EPISODE 180 TOPICS DISCUSSED/WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:

Why Alex quit her 9-5 office job to start freelance writing from home.
How to choose your services/offerings as a freelancer.
Setting your gig’s prices & when to raise your prices.
How the Fiverr Pro program helped Alex scale her business.
Practical tips and strategies for growing your freelancing business.
Hiring help and using AI to run your business for you.
How Alex became a CNBC contributor.
Huge misconceptions of freelancing that prevent people from trying it.
Pros and cons of working as an independent contractor.
Alex’s biggest struggle as a business owner.
Software and tools you need (and don’t need) to start freelancing.
The most valuable lesson Alex learned in her first year of freelancing.

QUESTIONS ANSWERED:

What job did you have before becoming a freelancer?
Why did you choose writing as your freelancing gig?
When did you switch from writing blogs to ghostwriting eBooks?
How did you end up on CNBC Make It?
Can freelancers make more than salaried employees?
Are healthcare and taxes more expensive for freelancers?
What are your different income streams? Are any of them passive?
What topics do you read and learn about in your spare time and why?
What was the biggest thing that helped you get more clients on Fiverr?
And more!

SHOW NOTES & RESOURCES

Resources for Freelancers:

Accounting/Bookkeeping: QuickBooks
Communicate With Your Team: Slack
Take Notes & Stay Organized: Notion
Async Video Messaging: Loom
Design Emails, Sales Checkouts, & Forms: Flodesk

Related Books:

Freelance Your Way to Freedom by Alex Fasulo
Digital Nomads For Dummies by Kristin Wilson
The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

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