Nov. 8, 2022

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

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. 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.

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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:

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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:

Related Podcasts:

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Alexandra Fasulo is freelancing and side hustle commentator, author of Freelance Your Way to Freedom, host of the Freelance Fairytales podcast, CNBC contributor, and owner of the weekly gig economy news reporting newsletter, the Forum. She is also the owner of Fortuna Forum, a suite of online financial freedom resources, courses, PDFs, and downloads.

Alex quit her corporate job in 2015 with no plan, money saved, or idea what she was going to do. After experimenting with dozens of online side hustles, Alex discovered freelance writing on Fiverr. By 2018, she was earning over $300,000 from her laptop, writing press release, blogs, and ebooks for clients. After sharing her story on social media, Alex has gone on to amass a following of over 900,000 across social media.

In 2022, Alex has turned her freelancing business into a passive pursuit, now spending her time creating online content, writing books, investigating gig economy stories, and traveling when she can.