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gonna come along with me hey good morning it's Sara from close to the
earth IT services and today it's time for an Tech Talk on Monday and I wanted
to talk about freelancers hiring freelancers to get you to that next
level and it really doesn't take a huge commitment to just get some help with
stuff that your might not yeah you might not be that great at not everyone can do
everything we all know this that's right but um
having freelancers instead of like doing a whole commitment with hiring someone
full-time it's pretty easy these days to go online and hire people who really
know what they're doing and just get like a small package maybe you have a
project that you want to work on or you just need like from for myself I
recently needed some YouTube thumbnails that were kind of interesting to look at
because the ones that I was like auto-generating from Facebook or from
YouTube would just be kind of weird and I don't try putting like title effects
on them and stuff but it's just not really it's not my zone so I found a
graphic designer on Fiverr who took a bunch of I've got
just a package like a package deal like okay cool I saw his portfolio really
liked his work and just hired him for a small project and ended up hiring him
like two more times three more times for other stuff that I have going on because
he's really good he's really good to work with it's really responsible and
it's not like hiring someone long-term where you have to look into their
background and you to kind of search you have to deliberate
about it it's such an easy thing to do and and I want to talk about this super
superstar virtual assistant Katelyn calar she wait I'm not saying her name
correctly Katelyn calar ski I found her through
just a basic Facebook search and a chainsaw and it turned out to be the
best decision her website is Katelyn hang on let me just like get it here
let's see yeah all right so I guess I wasn't super prepared I just thought
about Kaitlyn and wanted you to know about her all right
Kaitlyn cool our ski calm and she actually teaches virtual assistants to
so see AI e li n k UL a are s ki calm and she's like a super genius she knows
how to modify websites she knows how to do email marketing
she knows social media she knows everything that a creative entrepreneur
or someone who's got an e-commerce thing going on or like um someone who works at
home all those blanks that come up she knows how to just anticipate what you
need and that's like one of her real talents and she helps other people to
become virtual assistants - did you know that this was even a job being a virtual
assistant to someone this is pretty cool they offer digital services mostly they
can help you with customer service they can help you with your email marketing
campaigns they can help you with calling people when you don't want to
anything that you feel like it's like slowing you down you can get help with
so finding these people I have gone to do well
go to find people I like to look on Pinterest Facebook to do a kind of
Facebook pages search and on Fiverr and I discovered to like with this graphic
designer or guy that he had a YouTube channel I was googling some specific
things about Instagram stories and I found him through a youtube search and
then he was smart enough to say like hey if you like this video I actually do
this for a living and I freelance here's where you can find me and it was super
helpful because a lot of the people out there in the freelancing market are
super accountable they can't really take your money and run I mean they're bound
by their own service agreements with the various websites that they work for
keeping them accountable - which is it's really helpful you want to come in start
doing the kind of rain outside hang out let me look my in it's super foggy
outside um yeah so hiring freelancers what do you have to be worried about
what kind of nothing this is surprising this was surprising to me - how if you
hire a freelancer through one of these websites they have like a prepayment
thing where you pay a little bit upfront and then you pay at the end of the job
as long as you're satisfied with the quality of the job so these websites
keep people really accountable - um most of the time if you want to do a small
project it's very affordable and you're paying people what they're asking for so
you don't have to worry about you know negotiating with people about their rate
or if you're getting a good deal or whatever because they base it on what
the market is and then you can decide whether
something had value for you or not and you don't have to choose to hire that
person again what I like to look for is good communication I had an experience
with a freelancer where he was late on a project but he just let me know we
really like just very responsive this is the piece I'm working on I
underestimated at the time I'm working really hard on it and I knew that Dad it
was a genuine desire to help me the reason why he was late and there wasn't
a huge deadline for me either so it just worked out but having that nice
communication helped a lot um I have never been I've actually been a
freelancer - I have never been like ripped off by a freelancer it just
hasn't happened for me I've chosen carefully for a few different things I
check out their portfolio of work if they have references I do check the
references and I just do kind of like a basic due diligence to see if this is
something that I really I don't know if the person really fits with what my my
goals are and what I want to accomplish and then I just give them a small job um
and then I can move on to the next thing I've also had really bad luck hiring
people that say that they need a job I I find that when people really need a job
and they're really desperate and there's a whole lot of desperation going on for
them this has happened to me four different times they're like I need a
job and like cool I've got a job for you I always need social media assistance
let's do this and again and again if when I offer someone a job who's not
putting themselves out there and way like I would like to have this job I'd
like to get paid this much I would like the responsibilities to be the following
there's just a miscommunication and that's happened to me several times
hey good morning so if you're just hopping on I'm talking
about hiring freelancers and what you need to know and how it is so helpful to
get some help with things that you might not be great at and you don't have to be
good at everything I mean that's why you can get a freelancer to help you there
could be something that's really missing like um Stefan what's your mind in the
comments just dropping a comment and that's something that you need help with
from time to time is there anything that that you could use the freelancers help
with I'll wait for you to answer I'm calling out from the oh you come from
Austria well that's cool hi do you ever hire freelancers like are you a creative
person that works for yourself it's curious anyway so I really don't think
there's anything to lose I think it's a pretty the only thing getting in the way
usually is my hesitation my negative thinking and maybe making the job too
too big you know it's like oh my gosh I have to do a sales campaign or I have to
do a marketing campaign or how am I gonna reach my ideal customer and like
you don't have to answer all of those big questions in just one day you can't
you can't I mean even if you have the whole day to think about okay I'm gonna
do my business planning in this particular way I'm gonna I'm going to
come up with an organic campaign campaign and just execute it all in one
day it's like that's too overwhelming okay well hey Stefan thank you for
joining even though hey it's cool that English
is not your first language ah I wouldn't expect it to be
yeah well that's cool I would imagine that it would be hard to learn German so
oh yeah it's okay that you can't participate at the level that you want
to I just appreciate you and watching thank you
so it's gonna take time no matter what it's gonna bill a steak it's gonna take
time for you to build your business anyway so build it with that in mind
that it's gonna take time you can build it strategically you don't have to spend
a lot of money I don't think it's a good idea to take out a loan to start up your
business when I first started close to the earth IT services I did um put a lot
of things on a credit card to get started my licensing fees and my exam
the exams that I had to do I was coming out of a job where I hadn't worked for a
couple of weeks so I was on survival money and I used that credit card for my
startup stuff but it took forever it took like years to pay it off so I mean
if you have to use credit cards or dad or whatever to get started then you know
use it wisely but I just don't think it's a good idea my opinion only to dig
it up take out some big line of equity or wine of credit at the bank and start
up your business I think it's better to do it just a little piecemeal you know
deciding what your needs are and going from there and I've started up a lot of
businesses and this is like my favorite one so far I've worked in IT for almost
a decade and in different roles like I started out being on the in client
services for an IT company and that's how I got to be like pure doing pure IT
stuff outside of the entertainment business and it's just little baby steps
it's gonna take time so um yeah if anyone has any questions to the support
facetime line is open eight oh five eight one six three seven nine two I
think let's see here I think that's the number
yes eight oh five eight one six three seven nine two is the FaceTime number if
you want to participate text FaceTime audio in FaceTime video in any way so
just if you're just joining now the three top most important things to know
when you're hiring a freelancer is that they're gonna be asking for the rate
that they want to get so you're gonna know their costs upfront and ask that
person like hey if I do the following project am I gonna be you is that gonna
be like enough to get what I want accomplished what do you recommend
and ask them they're asking for the rate that they want to get that they want to
get paid so you won't have to negotiate that too much don't fear that and then
check their reviews make sure that they've got good solid feedback check up
on their references if they've got a link to people that they've worked with
before or whatever check in with them too and remember all of these
freelancing websites have an accountability measure at least one or
more built into their platform so with freelancer com you're going to
be paying a little deposit up front it's called the milestone and then when your
job is completed and you've accepted it then you pay the other half and and
you're the work is released to you so you really don't have anything to worry
about in hiring someone to work for you if you're going through one of these
freelancing sites or fiber fiber everyone's got like a five or ten dollar
deal on Fiverr so you can find out like let's say you want a little graphic
design work or you want some photos edited or whatever you can get that done
very inexpensively and just find out if the person is a match for you so you've
got very little to lose and hiring someone to help you in your business
that will complement what you're trying to do and then thirdly to get a plan
of what you need help with everyone has their particular area of expertise and
then those kind of side sight issues can come up whether they're marketing or
doing social media or graphic design may be writing long-form blog posts which
Google really seems to have long-form blog posts go to the top of the search
and they index those more more now than they have in the past see somebody's
calling me I think um do you want to spend time writing them yourself or do
you want to get help with that maybe you can do kind of like video transcription
if it's easier for you to talk about what your business does or what you want
to do or something then you're gonna have those transcribed so make light
work of it and I guess that's I guess that's about all I have to save for
today I'm gonna be coming out with a full-length edited YouTube video about
the seminar that I took this weekend it was called business planning for
creative entrepreneurs by doctor manette rarden and it was in Santa Barbara it
was really good I'm actually feeling a little bit overwhelmed today because I
just hit my own resistance so much and hey good morning
so it's interesting as a creative entrepreneur a creative business person
that you can kind of like hit these creativity walls or these kind of like
old attitudes or insecurities that kind of like hold you back and once you start
pushing through them you'll grow um but yeah you can just make it so much easier
for yourself by getting someone to help you it won't cost a lot of money and
then you can grow with that person you can work with that person again if you
like them but chances are as long as you're doing your research
and as long as you're checking references as long as you kind of got a
vision and you're really clear on the instructions there is no reason why a
freelancer won't help you you've got nothing to lose
these freelance sites have it baked into their platform that you're gonna get
what you paid for so and the reviews the positive feedback from you is really
important to freelancers so they're gonna do everything that they can to
make sure that they're doing a good job you can't lose them and it's really the
the odds are in our favor as people who are hiring freelancers that you're gonna
get good quality work with someone who really wants to work with you too so
it's really nice and then you you have like choice um so that's the feedback
that I have for today if you want to know anything specific tech related I'm
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