The Side Hustle Show: The Freelancing Mixtape – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Would 10 new clients solve all your business worries?

That was the position Helen Pritchard was in back in 2008.

On the back of a financial and personal crisis, Helen needed 10 clients paying £250 each to pay her bills.

She turned to LinkedIn to find those clients, and it didn't take her long.

Since then, Helen has pivoted her business and now teaches other people how to get clients and grow their business using LinkedIn.

In fact, I found out about Helen through a listener of the show:

I do not work for Helen. Nor do I do her PR. I just want to nominate her because she changed my life. Thanks to her, I have filled my client roster and have more money coming in as an entrepreneur than I ever did working for someone else.

That's an awesome testimonial for Helen, and solid proof that her methods work.

Note: Click here to download Helen's top tips for attracting your ideal clients on LinkedIn from this episode.

If your goal is to leave your job in the near future, you don't want to miss this one. What Helen teaches is probably the fastest way to start your own business with the least upfront expense.

Tune in to hear Helen talk through:

• the processes she teaches students on her LinkedIn mastermind
• how to set up your LinkedIn profile as a landing page that converts
• how to connect with potential clients
• and more

A location-independent consulting business that replaces your day job income in a matter of months?

That's what Paul Minors achieved with his virtual software consulting side hustle.

Paul was able to leave his day job within a couple of months of starting his business. He was then able to go traveling with his wife for 6-months while working 15-20 hours a week from his laptop.

After arriving back home, he started working full-time on his consulting business. "I noticed the impact of that straight away, within a couple of months I had doubled my income," Paul told me.

Note: Click here to download Paul's top tips for setting up a location-independent consulting business and landing your first clients from this episode.

It's clear Paul has figured out this business model.

This episode is packed with ideas you might be able to apply to your own areas of expertise. Maybe you'll even uncover some areas of expertise you never really considered that special before.

Tune in to hear:

• How Paul came across the idea of offering his first consulting services "by accident."
• The several different marketing channels that drive targeted traffic to his website
• How he's added more products and services to his portfolio

Kendell Rizzo made over $100,000 in profit in 18 months part-time selling services, workbooks, and other downloadable products on Fiverr. 

In addition to being a 6-figure Fiverr seller, Kendell is a crowdfunding expert, a world traveler, an ironman triathlete, and runs her blog at leadandlaunch.com.

Note: Click here to download Kendell's tips and strategies to maximize your Fiverr Earnings.

It's been more than 100 episodes since our last Fiverr episode where Mark (AnarchoFighter) talked me through how he was the first person to make a $10k sale on Fiverr.

Fiverr is still going strong, and it's a great example of a Buy Buttons platform – there's no bidding for work and no outside marketing necessary. This is what attracted Kendell to Fiverr after being frustrated with other freelance endeavors that sap time bidding for jobs or submitting resumes.

Within a year and a half Kendell turned over more than $100k in profit, and went from the $5 gigs everyone starts out with to averaging between $500-$900 an order. And with digital products for sale, this was all possible while working part-time.

Tune in to hear how she made her gigs stand out from the crowd in the competitive Fiverr marketplace, and why "over-delivering" is a fast-track to Fiverr success.

Gabe Arnold is the founder and chief pencil sharpener at CopywriterToday.net, a subscription based article writing service.

In his early 20's Gabe saw his construction business hit by the downturn in the property market to the tune of a $1 million bankruptcy, and began freelancing to support his family.

One common hold-up on his website projects was the words to paste into the pages, which gave him an idea. Tune in to hear how he took that idea from zero customers to $20k in monthly recurring revenue.

In 2011, Joshua Lisec landed his first freelance gig--on Fiverr of all places. He said he wound up making $1.67 an hour from that job, but it sparked his entrepreneurial journey.

Since then, he's gone from "dumpster-diving for clients" to consistently landing 4- and 5-figure contracts and earning $167 an hour on one recent project, effectively 100x-ing his hourly rate. In this episode we take a deep dive into what I'll call the OPA Plan: borrowing other people's audiences to grow your business, a strategy that's earned Joshua $9000 in just the last couple months.

Rachel Pedersen was using social media to bring customers to her hairdressing chair, but never really imagined it would turn into a full-time business of its own. One of her hairdressing clients owned a popular restaurant chain, but was struggling with online marketing and social media.

Rachel offered to help and the rest is history. Today her little social media management side hustle is a 6-figure business and she has even built a training program to help other people follow in her footsteps.

Matt Inglot was following the hustler's path. He built some skills on his spare time, and began selling those skills as a freelancer. The first project he sold was to build a website for $300.

Soon, he had a full-time freelance business, and decided to grow into an agency.

But before long, Matt found himself working 80 hour weeks and stressed out during down months about covering rent and payroll. While outwardly successful, Matt knew the business was broken. Here's how he turned it around into an operation that supports his lifestyle and his bank account.

Jesse Gernigin is a professional stage hypnotist and online freelancer. He used to do up to 200 shows a year and even sold his own products, but realized there was always going to be a ceiling to his earning power. Turning to the world of online work, Jesse applied his performance and sales skills to land freelance work in his spare time.

Today he specializes in copywriting for email sequences, sales letters, and crowdfunding campaigns. He shares some of his favorite tactics for figuring out what type of service you can offer, identifying high-value clients, and writing winning proposals.

Gina Horkey has come highly recommended by a number of listeners, and I've seen her work what seems like "all over the Internet" for the past couple years so I'm excited to finally connect and bring her on the show.

She's a freelance writer extraordinaire, but also a virtual assistant, and someone who now helps others follow in her footsteps. Gina successfully built her freelance writing and virtual assistant business to be earning several thousand dollars a month; enough to quit her day job and go full-time.

A couple months ago, Matt Bochnak sent me a note about his motorcycle repair side hustle. As someone who is, shall we say, less-than-savvy when it comes to mechanics, I was impressed.

But Matt shared that the passive income from this service business now actually exceeds his revenue from "turning wrenches."