Hey, what's going on everyone Paul here and in this video I want to go over a video I saw because
the title caught my eye and it's titled "Making $366,000 on Fiverr. After losing my job and it's
by "CNBC make it." So they do a lot of different videos and this one is really short and sweet.
It's just four minutes long. So I figured you know I have a channel on creating freelancing content,
entrepreneurship, lifestyle freedom all of that. So why not just play this video I can give my
honest reaction to it my insights my input and I think it can really help give another perspective
to anyone that is thinking about starting a side hustle on Fiverr or Upwork or just
freelancing in general. So with that being said let's hit the like button to support the video
and let's get right into it.
I was just looking for stay-at-home jobs and I stumbled across Fiverr
and it was just something that hit me and I was like wow like could this be
something that I could leave that sucky job that I had.
My name is Jennifer. Okay so real quick let's go back to that so this 42-year-old made $366,000 in
seven years on Fiverr. So I was kind of thinking that $366,000 usually when you give a figure out
like that you're talking about your yearly salary or at least what you made last year because
you know when you're freelancing and starting out your salary is increasing. Usually when you're
doing well of course so it's kind of interesting how they're breaking that up into seven years and
I'm thinking that there's probably a few years in the beginning. If not most of that time where she
wasn't taking it seriously because if that's spread up it's not that that's a bad salary
it's just that it's a little misleading. So we'll definitely get more into that.
Jennifer Shealy and I'm a Fiverr Top Rated seller. I'm also from Melbourne Florida. I
would say over the course of my journey on Fiverr I've made well over 350 thousand dollars and
you know just the last you know couple of years I've been hitting six figures. So I don't Okay
so right there she said over the whole course she's made over the $350,000 but in the last
couple years, she's been making over six figures a year. So kind of like I was just thinking
a lot of the times when you're starting out you're not taking it fully seriously, in the beginning.
You're building yourself up and then once you start having success is when you can really
exponentially grow and I've kind of seen the same thing on my journey where when you're starting
out you know it's really good to kind of do it on the side and then build your way up and then
once you do have those hours put in, those years put in you can really take advantage of it. So it
sounds like that's something that's going on here let's learn some more find myself slowing down.
Digital Marketing okay so she started using Fiverr while she was still working at a title company and
studying for an MBA and then I ended up you know losing my job at the title company because they
said that apparently I was just on my phone too much and I was just kind of like bored with the
job. So once I lost the job at the tile company then I was really like focused on working at home,
and then I realized like I just wanted to get kind of out of that project management role and just
really focus in on Fiverr. So what I did was I just use all the extra free time that I had which
was probably like a little bit in the evenings and basically my weekends and I sacrificed all that. I
didn't go to parties and I just said no to a lot of things because I was really wanting to focus
on Fiverr and it got to a point within a four-year period that I was basically making more in Fiverr
than I was with those three jobs together. I was like this is okay wow so a lot to unpack there. I
think the first part of it where she talked about losing her job, I think once again that's a little
bit misleading and it's even in the title right after losing my job she didn't lose her job she
got fired. She got fired because she was on her phone too much she was checking out mentally and
unfortunately that's the sad reality of a lot of nine to fivers. Even if you start out and
you have a lot of passion if you're just working on someone else's dreams and you're not really
fully aligned with the company you don't feel a sense of company culture. You don't feel that you
can really see yourself there in the long run that leads into your day-to-day performance and that's
probably what happened in her case where she's doing something at some companies. She's not that
interested in she's on her phone a lot and luckily in her case they actually let her go that's the
best thing they probably could have done for her and their company because you don't want to have
someone that's already mentally checked out. They say a lot of the times when someone quits a job
they didn't just think about that they have been thinking about leaving for months if not years.
So if you can kind of catch that early that's why some companies actually have what's called
'quitting bonuses.' They'll give you money to walk away because they only want people there that are
really dedicated. So it's a little misleading. I know she got fired but getting into the other
part the good part of it was she was able to kind of make the sacrifices where she needed to
during those nights during those weekends and you know I really found myself right in the same boat
after I left the 9 to 5 world a few years after college. I found myself really making those same
sacrifices and tough decisions of should I just go out and have fun and party
or should I focus on my business and that call I have with a potential client in the morning
and that's really how it happens. It's just every little decision starts to pile up on top of each
other. So it's really awesome to see that even though she did kind of get let go and it was a
bad situation, she turned it into a good one by focusing solely on Fiverr in her case and
she's providing digital marketing services. So interested to see where this goes from here.
No longer a side hustle this is my job I started off on Fiverr offering
Facebook advertising services for five dollars. So some people might find that silly you know
starting out like why would you do that well you know sometimes you have to do what you got to do
to put your name out there. Then you know through the years I progressively increased it to today
you know I offer six Ad package for $175 dollars. I didn't see a huge return in the first three
years at Fiverr. All I wanted to do was pay my rent and to get food in my mouth and to pay my
bills and that's powerful you know what I mean like and now I don't have to think about all that.
Okay so she's working between 50 to 60 hours per week and she shared some insight there in to
how powerful it is when you're able to start to produce income for yourself. Just for day-to-day
things like paying your rent, paying your bills and getting food maybe even eating out a few times
a month. Just those little things it's hard to remember and put yourself back there once you're
not in that paycheck to paycheck cycle but so many people are living like that where it really does
depend on how much they're able to bring in that month. That's how much they're going to be able
to eat, that's how much they're going to be able to whatever it is give gifts to their different
family members. It really all comes down to how much you're able to produce and working 50 to
60 hours a week. While it might sound like wow she's putting in overtime their normal workweek
is 40 hours. When you're working for yourself and you're an entrepreneur and you're having success,
you don't want to just work 40 hours. It's really not going to be in your best interest
because if you can put that extra 10-20 hours in a week that can really set you up and then
once you have that cash flow you can invest that and multiply it. So the more you can really hone
in on those times you're having success the better your long-term career is going to be.
You know I'm comfortable with that maybe one day I'll own a Tesla because I'm in
my vehicle at times driving and working and it's just like this is the future you know
and it's just funny because I get things done and then I can go and enjoy a meal.
I'm actually doing way more work than I did in 2020. So I'm quite shocked about it.
Wow okay, so this is important. I want to pause this here because she just kind of clarified
what her recent successes look like and she said that she's even had more success since
the pandemic started. Once again I really find a lot of similarities in my own journey because
I've been freelancing for over four years now. I've been in the digital marketing
space and over the last year and a half. Since the pandemic started I've seen the boom in freelance
opportunities because not only are everyone that is getting pushed online are kind of jumping into
it more and more, but there's also been just a rapid acceleration of people who weren't
even thinking about needing marketing services, needing digital marketing, but they're forced
to adapt. If they want their company to survive and that's created even more opportunity in the
freelancing space. So it's no surprise to me that in 2020 while so many people are getting
laid off so many people are just struggling losing so much money of their net worth.
She's able to make over a hundred thousand dollars on Fiverr because she set herself up on that
platform and I'm interested to see where she's at right now let's see if they give us that info.
Fiverr okay they did so they said that she's already at over $45,000 made this year so this
obviously isn't a fluke. It's not a one-good year for her. She's progressively kind of scaling up
and that's the beauty of freelancing as well where if you're in a nine to five it's not that there's
no opportunity to grow with the company, but that's stretched out and that is really dedicating
a good chunk of your life to this one particular job. However, when you're
freelancing you can start to have that type of exponential growth once you build yourself up,
once you have your foundation built, you know what niche you're going to provide. Services
to you have some testimonials under your belt you have a good workflow and process set up
you can start to crank out work. Really get your process down get your productivity up and you can
start making six figures a year freelancing much quicker than it would for you to kind
of climb that corporate ladder. So even though it might start out slower, in the beginning,
you have so much more ability to just really arch that graph upward. A world of opportunity
to me that I'm very thankful for and very fortunate for I really feel like God just put this
fight in me to not give up. I think those times where I was overlooked for promotions and you know
dumb down. I just think now when I look at it it was all a preparation for now because I'm leading
my own ship. People out there like a woman like me or she's a colored woman as myself or she's LGBT
you know you kind of just go like do I really fit out here you know? And I've just always had
this drive and I felt like you know I just I'll do whatever it takes you know what I mean. I'll work
harder and faster and longer and weekends and whatever just to prove a point that I am worth
something and that my work matters and that my voice matters and that you know I have a purpose
here. okay so let's just give it up, that was an awesome video by CNBC make it. They kept it really
short and sweet. If you see this other video here I also reacted to this one making $378k a year
as a Fiverr freelancer. if you want to check that out I'll put the thumbnail right here. So you can
see what that looks like but this was an awesome video. I really liked how they kept it short and
sweet they didn't really kind of extend it where it didn't need to be but they got to the point.
They kind of showed her journey and I find a lot of myself in this journey because you don't need
to do this as your full-time gig to start out. You can start to kind of test the waters on Fiverr,
on Upwork on Freelancer.com and even just in you know different freelancing relationships that you
can have that are not even on a platform but start to get some experience in the space and you can
see if it's good for you and if it is there's no reason why you can't scale it up. So let's
take a look now at some of the comments if there's anything in here we can kind of just comment on.
So okay the most like comment wow $366k in a year on Fiverr me 15 seconds later oh in seven years
yes that's kind of what we touched on as well they kind of make it seem like that. However, you know
we do have other people here yeah clarifying she made $106k in 2020. So she'll probably make more
in 2021 exactly that's kind of what I was saying as well where when you start out freelancing
your first year is not always going to be the best because you're starting from scratch. You
need to put in the work start on smaller projects and work your way up. I have a bunch of content on
my channel about that but that's not to say it's not worth it because once you put that work in
down the line is when it all pays off and you can have a system built that steadily feeds you
leads. That's what I love about Upwork like they literally send me emails every single day with
different clients that are inviting me to work on their projects to see if I'm a good fit.
They send you emails of all the different jobs out there that are in your area that fit your
skillset that don't have enough proposals yet and whatever your skillset is. Or if you don't
have one yet start to kind of look at where you can carve your path in this freelancing world
and I really think you can have a lot of success because there's a reason you're watching this.
You're kind of drawn to this type of content how people are transitioning away from jobs
they don't even enjoy to working for themselves even if it means putting in that extra work.
It really all pays off so I hope that was an entertaining video for you if you liked it
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