 Good morning everybody. It is Monday morning, May 16th, 2022. Welcome. Good to see you here. I want you to make sure you're using that chat box there. Today I'm going to tell you how to fire your boss if you want. You can actually fire your boss. I mean anybody can do this. Anybody can literally do this. Don't forget to subscribe. Hit that red button down there. Turn it from red to gray. Don't forget to ring the bell. Turn all bell notifications to see you notified each every time I go live. Today I'm going to go through a lot of these freelance sites that are out there. I'm going to show you how to use them but more importantly I'm going to show you how to get jobs and I mean get jobs fast, very fast. So that's what we're going to work on today. If that's your interest you'll want to stick around. If you have no interest in that then you don't want to stick around okay because this is not for you and I want you to use that chat box. Have you done any freelance work? Do you know about freelance work? Have you used freelancers? There. Let's get the conversation going. The more we get that going, the more we all learn, the more we can all benefit from this training. This channel is all about you guys learning how to make money online and I go in a lot of directions. I talk about drop shipping. I talk about physical products. I talk about digital products. So if you want to make money online this is the channel for you. Make sure you give me a thumbs up there too. That's real important. I'm going to go through a lot of sites today. Now I don't use all of these sites. Obviously I can't use every single site that's out there but a lot of them I have used extensively and I've learned a lot from using these sites and that's what I want to share with you guys today. So I think the first thing I want to do and if you want to go in another direction that's fine. All you got to do is put something in that chat section there and we'll go in another direction but the first thing I want to do is like identify some of these sites what they're good for. My number one favorite is Upwork. That's U-P-W-O-R-K. Let me put this in here. I'm going to stick this in the chat box so you guys can see it. You can click it here. This is my number one favorite. Okay so I got Upwork in there. You guys should be able to see that right now. And Upwork is really pretty amazing. It used to be called Elance and I used it when it was Elance too. It's probably one of the best freelancer websites for finding work no matter what type of freelancer you are. I don't care what you do there's going to be a job on there. And you know it's funny we were driving down the street last night we were going to a movie and I saw one of those Uber delivery cars racing through traffic and it got me to thinking you know I go to a Starbucks and I hang out and at this Starbucks they have a lot of to-go orders. They have this whole counter in the back actually two counters two shelves of orders and they're all for Uber drivers to pick up and go deliver somewhere. And I look at the people coming in and I look at their cars and I think gosh you know I mean an average Uber driver is going to make about twenty dollars an hour. That's if they hustle twenty bucks an hour. But that's not all. They have to be away from their home. They have to be away from their family. They got to buy gas. Gas is really expensive nowadays. It's over four dollars a gallon in Texas and in some parts of the country over six or seven dollars a gallon. That's just insane. So they got to buy gas. They got to maintain their car. They got to make sure everything's working on their car again. They can work the hours they want and that's true but if they picked the wrong hours there's no job so they really can't work the hours they want. And they're going to make about twenty bucks an hour on average. Some may make more some may make less but they're going to make about twenty bucks. Any of you guys listening to this right now if you're within this end of my voice you can go to Upwork. You can go to some of these other sites I'm going to tell you about and you can make thirty forty fifty a hundred five hundred dollars an hour and you don't have to leave your home. All you need is a laptop and an internet connection. You could actually do this from a Starbucks. I know people that are freelancers that work at Starbucks. So I don't understand. You know and I said to her I think it's maybe because they don't have to put forth any effort. They don't have to think. They don't have to plan. They don't have to do anything. So they're willing to trade that for a whole lot lesser income. But you don't have to do that. And I think if you're here today you probably don't want to do that. You probably do want to make more money. This is the best way to do it. Upwork actually has a bit of a learning curve. I will say that when you first get up and running you'll have to learn the artistry of writing effective proposals. OK. And you do have to do that. And I'm going to tell you how to get around some of this too. But anyway that's my personal. The next one is called Design Hill. And let me put that in the chat box. You guys have this. I've got a bunch of them for you. And I think it's important that I put some of these in here first and tell you about them so that you will have places to go based on what your skill levels are. So this is Design Hill. I just put it in the chat box there. And let me get back over here. Design Hill is a pretty cool site. Now as you would figure it gives employees looking for freelance designers a few ways to find them. Employers can actually go on there and create a project contest to find creative freelancers and receive a variety of design entries to choose from. Or they can find freelancers by seeking out specific services through a search box right on the top of the site. OK. So design contestants are pretty polarizing. If you if you're someone who rumbles and doesn't like crowd sourcing work on freelancing sites we feel that your your pain is justified. OK. But not all design contests are scam. And Design Hill shows that they can be a legitimate enterprise if you're looking to win over new clients. So I would say Design Hill is a pretty good one. Next one I want to tell you about. And then I'm going to tell you how to get the jobs on there too. So don't worry about that. We're going to go all over that. The next one I want to tell you about is called Total. Let me put that in here real quick. There you go. The Queens within. Let's see here what she's got to say. And I got to read it over here because I can't see it. I couldn't log into my Upwork account. So I had to contact them on Facebook. It seems like this is a common issue with them. I guess maybe if you're more active you'd be less likely to have this issue. I got to tell you Queens within. I've never had that problem. Not not that yours isn't real. I don't mean that. What I just mean is I use it constantly and they may have something to do with it. But I've never ever ever had a problem getting into that thing. Not once. So it could be maybe some setting on your computer. I don't know. You could you could share it in the chat section if you'd like what you found out. That could be very helpful to other people. But Topdol actually pitches themselves as a place to find the top three percent of freelance talents. So if you consider yourself the cream of the crop this is the place you're going to want to be. Their screening process is also rigorous that out of the thousands of submissions they get every month they only accept a few into their ranks. This exclusively sets them apart from so many other freelance job sites out there. It may seem intimidating getting in but if you do you'll get the chance to put yourself in front of some pretty big names like Airbnb's on there. Duolingo's on there which is a little app I used to learn languages. Shopify's on there. So it's a really good site. If you if you think you're cream of the crop you got to apply to get on there guys just to let you know. Then the next one is going to be called LinkedIn and LinkedIn Profinder. Let me put this in here so you guys have it. I'll put that in the chat box and guys I love your comments. I love your questions. Please keep all those coming. That is very very helpful when you do that and not just to me. It's helpful to the other people because they may have had the same problems that you had and when you put that stuff in there you can actually help out other people. So anyhow what is this LinkedIn and LinkedIn Profinder? Whatever your feel especially if you're creative you should have a LinkedIn profile. Keeping your profile up to date helps you build your network and connect with people of the integrated messaging system. Now you can post examples of your work for each role that you've had making it more than just a resume and by having your skills searchable on the platform you're bound to bring some traffic into your profile and connect with people who may be looking for your exact expertise. Now there's also you know people who are looking for like full-time jobs there too and that's certainly available but another smart feature that LinkedIn has rolled into LinkedIn Profinder which helps businesses find freelancers who are qualified to work with them. Potential employers can actually filter by different specialties like I don't know content marketing design data entry all those types of things so that's a really good site to use also. Next one is called We Work Remotely. We work remotely let me get this in the chat box there and then just a second what I'm going to do is tell you how to get jobs on these sites. I mean super easy to get jobs on these sites okay so let me stick this one in here real quick. Paste and there we go we work remotely and that's another good site we work remotely is a little bit different they actually talk about how they get around three million users a month and that's that's huge they really that's really huge. They had a multitude of job postings with many design related offerings we work remotely may feel a bit less personal than other design centric websites but the volume of the job postings makes up for all of this. People or companies seeking designers have to spend a fixed price of $299 to list on We Work Remotely which acts as a screening process and weeds out a lot of low quality leads with heavy hitters such as Google, Amazon, InVision all listed as companies who've pasted and posted sites there excuse me jobs there this is a legit platform it's really good guys and what's even better is you don't have to create a profile all you need to do is click on a job link and be brought straight there that's all you got to do so it's really easy to use. If you're looking for online freelance jobs We Work Remotely is a solid resource for part-time and full-time freelance gigs that will fit your skill set. All right and the next one is going to be called Behance let me copy this one here and stick it in and we're going to talk about Behance and now and I'm gonna you know before we end today I'm going to tell you how to get jobs on these sites like super easy super easy how are we doing on time we're good it's only 10-11 all right so there's Behlance right there the best of Behlance Behlance is good let me pull up some of my informational Behlance it's really the site to go for anyone hoping to find creative freelancers it features so much great work to soak in including illustrations animations web designs media app development and much more when you fill in your Behlance profile with really good project samples your work is put in front of an audience of like-minded creatives and if you work you know earns the coveted spot of featured project you'll get even more positive exposure who knows who may see it and might want to hire you Behlance also functions as a social media network to connect with other designers expanding your list of contacts may bring you new design opportunities and remind me to talk about that when I talk about getting jobs and how you can get extra jobs because it works really well let's see here we'll get back to comments here real quick we've got one from Paul popping in there Paul says so of these sites how many do you use for freelance or do you currently have a stable you already vested now I do use them and I would say regularly I use upwork all the time just all the time I use fiverr a lot and I use freelancer.com a lot too but you know you can't really go by what I use because it's depending on what you want like I may say well I use upwork a lot which I do but if I'm hiring a designer I may go to one of these other design sites because I have a one off project and I'll do that so it just depends but I use them all the time I use I would say almost every week I use some of these sites because I always have one off projects and then I have full-time employees too so it's really depending on what I do um let me find a couple more of these sites which I think are going to be useful to you fiverr here it is here it is fiverr let me put this up here because I got a weird spelling but I want to stick that in there for you and then there's fiverr paste I'm not putting my comments on the screen it should be doing that right there we go and that's paul's there we go there's fiverr so fiverr is another good one I like it a lot and I'm trying to show it on both screens or on both YouTube and Facebook because I can't show it on both why why don't they have it where you can show it on both but it's a really good one fiverr used to be I'll do anything for five dollars that's basically how it started out but it's not like that anymore um it's grown quite a bit since then now you can actually set your own starting prices packages and add orange I like fiverr because they have packages they'll have like the you know beginner intermediate and expert type package so let's say you're doing I don't know a logo the basic logo maybe eight dollars and all you get is a jpeg file where the uh intermediate one maybe you get three different choices and you're going to get uh an ai file and then an expert one and is you can have a certain number of revisions and you're going to get five different choices or whatever and that's how people kind of set it up so it makes it pretty easy to use so now I'd like to kind of move into guys um how you're going to get these jobs I think that is the thing that is the most intimidating for everybody is you know I want to be a freelancer I want to be a consultant what jobs do I do how do I get these jobs so let's talk about what jobs do I do now the first thing you're going to want to do is assess your current talents what are your current talents what are you working on now you may not even realize you have some current talents you know you may be a great salesperson who says I want to go online and make websites well if you're a great salesperson you may be able to do some training for companies uh when consulting for selling you know that may be a talent you have um I managed car dealerships for many years and I trained thousands of salespeople and if I wanted to go out and be a consultant on how to sell people's stuff I could do that you know that's something I could do that's not what I do right now that's not what I chose to do however that is a talent I have so the first thing you want to do is assess what are your talents are you good at bookkeeping you know are you good at um instruction of language are you what are you good at okay and then the next person the next thing I hear which is the stupidest thing I mean it's stupid people will say to me well JR what do I have to do to get a job online where it doesn't it doesn't require any experience or any background or any knowledge or any of that because I just want to be able to make some money why would you do that why would you say I want to get a job uh because um I don't have any skills and I just want to be able to get some work online now here's the thing about skills you can get more skills they're not limited okay if you have an interest in you know CAD design you could go take a couple courses in CAD design and then offer your services um I bought a program the other day called SketchUp because I was going to build some cabinets and I want to actually draw out these cabinets for my wife's office um and low and behold um Friday we found a really nice sideboard that she likes and we just went and bought it but I still got cabinets I got to do in my office so I'm going to learn that and I'll learn CAD design I'll learn how to design stuff in this particular program and here's why I know I'll learn it because I can learn anything right you can learn anything if you put the effort into it and that's what I would tell you is first thing I would do is I would go to these sites and I would look at the jobs that pay the most don't look at the jobs that require those skills look at the jobs that pay the most and then see if you have interest in any of those things maybe it's coding maybe it's logo design maybe it's I don't know I don't know just find the jobs that pay the most per hour and look at what those people are doing and look at the jobs they're offering and then go get the skills now you're going to say where do I get the skills there's so many places to get courses from guys I mean on my channel alone right here on YouTube you could take courses for free or my channel on SEO on digital marketing on sales page design on email marketing all these things are within my channel and you could take these these videos I've done and learn how to do this stuff and go out and sell those services to somebody else now of course I have courses that you pay for and if you get a paid for course on my site if you look at the description below there's going to be some links to that stuff you could actually take one of these courses and get really good at one of these things and go out and sell your services so the first thing you want to do is figure out what you want to do if you got to do this all day or most of the week or whatever your time is valuable you might as well be doing something you like doing I get up every single day and I do stuff I like doing I enjoy it that doesn't mean I feel like doing it every single day okay there's a big difference in the liking to do something and feeling like doing it every single day I enjoy getting a good workout in I don't always want to do it I don't always want to go to the gym I don't always want to lift weights I don't always want to sweat and get out of breath but I do it because overall I enjoy it you know and it makes me healthy and feel good and yeah I can do more okay so that's the first step decide what kind of jobs you want now here's the part where people kind of fall apart they say okay I did a profile on there and I put all my qualifications on there and I put what I charge on there but I'm not getting any jobs and the reason I'm not getting any jobs is because nobody has hired me yet and I don't have any reviews and since I don't have any reviews I don't have any good comments about me nobody wants to hire me because nobody knows who I am you need to be proactive okay you need to be proactive and here's how you're going to be proactive you're going to start searching the jobs in the niche that you want to work in then you're going to look at the job so let's say I find a job on there and it and I decide I want to build websites that's my thing I'm a website designer which I'm not by the way but let's say that's the thing I want to do I start looking at jobs that are posted where people want people to build a website for and let's say the job pays I don't know $400 to build a basic website okay so I look at that job I look and see if I have the qualifications and if I have the qualifications I'm going to contact that person I'm going to send them a message and say hey I'm trying to build my portfolio I'm trying to get some good reviews I will do your job for a half price I will do your job for a half price you want 400 I'm going to do it for 200 if you'll just give me an honest review and I'm looking for good reviews and honest you know I'm going to do a great job for you but if you give me an honest review I'll do it for half price now some of you are going to say whoa JR why would you want to work for half price I mean I'm not going to do anything for half price why would I do that because you're going to get the benefit of these reviews that's why you're going to do it for half price and a lot of people say well I don't want to put forth effort and not get paid for it I did that for years in the beginning right I put I mean a lot of times I'll put forth effort into a video right now and nobody watches it okay now I have some that have you know hundreds of thousands of views but sometimes they don't click that's part of working for yourself sometimes you work and you don't immediately get money back but what you're doing by doing it this way what you're doing by contacting these employers these people who post jobs is you are actually building your portfolio of business and if you build this portfolio the portfolio is not only the jobs that other people can see but the reviews of what a good job you did and then you say well JR what if I don't do that good work well you got to change that you got some good work okay make sure you're doing good work if you're doing good work and if any of you have done some of these things online please post it in the chat box you know I want to see that let's see still like sales over individual jobs because you can leverage your time and experience absolutely you know a lot of people I've heard people say well JR could never be a salesperson because I'm too honest I never lied a day in my life in selling anything you don't need to all you've got to do is be excited about whatever you're selling and and point out all the benefits to it to somebody else and get them excited and they'll buy it it's that simple um so that's the little off note there about sales but yeah I feel the same way I love sales uh and really I'm selling you right now aren't I I'm selling you on the fact that you know you should go to these sites you should shut up a profile you should bid on some of these jobs you should do them for less money than what people are asking for in order to get these reviews so I'm trying to sell you on that so I'm a salesperson right but then again you may have kids at home right and maybe the kids are doing stuff that's wrong and you need to sell them on doing the right things and giving them the reasons why they should do the right things why they should eat right why they should exercise why they should obey laws whatever the case may be why they should brush their teeth why they should shower and clean their room you're selling them everybody sells okay so sales skills are super super important they just are uh the queens within sorry I had to step away from my desk oh no we missed you for a bit uh do you suggest we approach the prospect or another provider in charging half price absolutely absolutely you know if somebody were to approach me and let's say I have a job posted um and let's say it's SEO and it's $1,000 a week and I think I pay a lot more than that right now but they approach me and they say I'll do your SEO for $300 a week and I guarantee you results within 30 days um and if I get you results at $300 a week I'd like to charge more on down the road you know what I would probably pay them right if they approached me and said hey I'm going to do this SEO and I'm going to get you results and I can guarantee it and if I guarantee you results and and you know what I was already willing to pay $1,000 so not only that when you offer somebody a half price job like if it's an ongoing job something they need done on a regular basis you can say hey if it's a good job I'll charge you what you were asking before on down the road but I'll improve to you first and I can get results for you you know and you could do this in so many aspects guys um maybe maybe you're good at social media okay maybe you're good at getting interaction social media and you approach um I don't know let's see a hair salon uh who is posted that they need a social media manager in there uh and you approach him and say I'll tell you what I'll do your social media for free for a week for free and if you see results from what I did I'll charge you $15 a week or $15 a month whatever your rate is I'll charge you my going rate once I've proven to you that I can do the job that's a really cool way to get work and you know what it's easy to get work that way because you're saying hey I know I'm good at what I do and I can prove it to you I can show you I'm good at what I do uh would love to watch you buy a car with your sales experience well I don't know how good it would be nowadays because it's hard to even find cars back when you could negotiate yeah I mean I taught a lot of dealerships I spent I think nine years on the road teaching dealerships all around the country at one point I ran the number one price of dealership in the state of California we were number three in the United States so yeah I can I can sell stuff okay and I can teach people how to sell stuff and I train managers and I train sales people I train finance people use car manager new car managers there's my man Cameron Cameron showed up Cameron post in chat what you've been doing and if you make some money at it Cameron is one of our longtime listeners uh and Cameron you're growing up now you're going to be an adult soon um Cameron says here what good good he says which car would you buy absolutely hands down a Tesla absolutely hands down a Tesla now why why would I say Tesla well I've watched what Elon Musk has done I've watched the quality of the cars I have friends that have Teslas and by the way I have a deposit on Tesla right now so I know it's a good quality car um secondly I think he's ahead of the curve as far as technology goes I think he's done a really good job the cars really perform well they're fast they go a long ways I mean there's a lot of reasons for a test I own Tesla stock so you know that's kind of self-serving in itself there but that's the car I would buy so guys I hope you're following along here I've given you some sites you can go to for different skills and I've got more but I don't want to bore you with tons of sites you can go look for more sites out there I've talked to you about how to set up a profile in there I've even talked to you about how to approach some of these actual employers or people looking to hire freelancers and I'm telling you what to say to them what you want to say to them is I'll do the job for less if I've proven myself then I'll go up on my rate if I do the job and it's a really good job let's say it's a one-off job all I'm asking for is a good review that's all I want from you is a good review would you please do that you know and follow up on the review thing say hey you know you haven't given if they don't give you a review follow up a lot of times people forget so would you please give me a good review I'd really appreciate that I'm trying to build my portfolio and if you notice all this I'm telling you is absolutely honest absolutely honest people appreciate honesty hey I'm a new guy I'm good at what I do but I don't have any reviews and I want to work for you to get a review and I'll do it on the cheap I'll do it on the cheap you've got to be proactive guys you've got to be willing to do effort before you get results I can't tell you how many hours I spent on my business and made zero dollars in the beginning but I learned as I went I made zero dollars but I learned as I went there's something to be said for that there's no such thing as wasted effort there's no such thing as wasted effort I hear people say well you know I went I went to college and I got a college degree and I never used it I never used my college degree that's BS that's BS if you've got knowledge in your head you're using it every single day if you went to school and learned about economics or psychology or whatever you learned about you have that knowledge you can tap into that knowledge anytime you want it doesn't mean that you've got to get a job as a psychologist it doesn't mean you got to get a job as an economist I have a business degree in finance okay I use that intelligence every day because I can look at my books and I can look at accounting I can look at my finances I can pick stocks I have a stock broker license so when I'm looking at stocks I know what to look for there you use this stuff every single day guys you really do let's look at some of these comments here when you're freelance do you think doing a contract for 90 days if you're using a website and see is a reasonable time to meet expectations need time to get results convey that to customers yes and no okay so yes and no sometimes 90 days may not be long enough if I'm doing SEO for a business it can take me a lot longer than 90 days to get results so if I'm doing an SEO job I'm going to tell them upfront this takes time the search engines have to crawl all this information I'm doing and I'm going to need six months you know whatever it is if it's a logo no there's no time limit to it so it really depends on what the job is if you're selling you know you may say a week or two weeks if you're doing social media I don't know how quick you can get results you would know if you did social media how quick you can get results and what are our results our results leads let's say you're doing social media for somebody and the goal was to get leads for a hair salon but they follow up on the leads well if they follow up with the leads and don't sell them that's not your fault you got on the leads so you were productive so if they say well we didn't make any money off it it's because you provide them leads and they didn't do anything with them maybe they didn't call the people back maybe they didn't follow up I don't know so you need to get really clear upfront about what the results are going to be and then you can do it Cameron says I'm thinking ahead and we'll study further about email marketing sir I don't got card access I don't got card access okay well that's cool at least you're working towards something moving forward Cameron and you show it up here and you learn it every day yet another day I haven't used trigonometry okay there's some things but you never know you never know at some point you may need that maybe you're going to do some geometrical thing at some point in your life but you know what it does actually is even if you don't use trigonometry you have sharpened your brain you have proven to yourself you could do something difficult and if you prove to yourself you can do something difficult you know what it does it gives you confidence and once you've gotten this confidence you'll try more things so maybe trigonometry is something that you've really used you just don't realize it because it built confidence for you because you figured it out hopefully everyone has a great week by the way Friday lunch looked good it was good it was very good and guys this is a point where I need to announce I have a relative coming in town tomorrow my mother-in-law and she's going to be here until next Wednesday I believe so I will not be live from now until a week from Friday that's the next time you're going to see me live so get all you can today ask whatever questions you want today and I'll be happy to answer them for you but I will not be live anymore from today until what's what's the date when's my next live date here let's see let me find my calendar calendar my next live date guys will be the 27th so you won't see me live again till the 27th of May will be the next time now on the 17th 18th and 19th of this week I will upload videos so you'll have those you're going to have some information on the 24th 25th and 26th I'm going to upload videos so you're going to have that information but you won't see me live again till the 27th I just want to warn you about that and I think we're nearing our end I have a gardener outside doing all kinds of work on our house right now tearing up flower beds and putting in mulch and moving rocks and planting trees and just he's got a big day ahead of him but I just want to let you guys know about my schedule what's going on I don't want you to think I just dropped out of the sky and I'm not around anymore it's because I have relative here and I got to give her time mother most don't come that often you know so you got to give time guys I hope you enjoyed this today if you did please put a comment down there in that chat section that would be very very helpful if you would give me a thumbs up that would be very nice and I'm trying to put about a comment up there doesn't want to do it same sir and paul all right so he's giving you some kind wishes there paul don't forget to subscribe to that subscribe button turn it from red to gray don't forget to ring the bell turn on all notifications so you're notified each day for time I go live or upload a video hope I didn't say that too fast every time I go live or anytime I upload a video you'll be notified thanks so much for watching guys I really appreciate seeing you here and I'm going to see you one week from Friday which once again is the 27th good luck sir thank you so much Cameron I will see you guys later