Slash Podcast

Is it ever too late to go back to school? (Hint: of course not) Join us in this "back to school episode" where we look at the importance of continued learning for your career, brain health, and probably even your sanity. We take a look at new options and platforms to match your style, time and budget and we might just share a few things that we'd like to learn ourselves. Welcome to Season Two!

And...that's a wrap! Season One: Final Episode

This is a super common question. A listener actually tweeted us and asked this question, I want to start a presence on Facebook and I'm not sure whether a Page or a Group is the best way to go? Listen and find out the answer.

So the point of this episode is taking 30 minutes today to implement just a few free or super low cost solutions can save you days and days of lost productivity.

As we talked about in the last episode if you find out why he wants the new website, and you put yourself in his or her shoes, and you identify, you listen, and you say I hear this is the problem, this is the cost of your problem I have a solution.

We talked previously in an episode about lead magnets, and we are going to touch on them today. It's where you give a piece of free content away. It can be a guide, a cheat sheet, short video course and an audio something like this podcast in return for an email address and then that email address at that point you as a sales or course creator or a freelancer can use it to either market your services or your product.

A recent report, this would be from October 2016 by McKinsey and company found that there is up to a 162 million people in EU and in the USA that are working as freelancers in some capacity an independent worker. We will get into what that means, which in America, one in three working Americans are freelancers that is 54 million people or 33 percent of the working US population, which is huge. And In Canada, we are on a ten percent sizing reduction from the United States, but we've got 2.7 million self-employed gains or those at least of you who declared themselves as self-employed on their taxes.

Well I think this whole podcast is proof of accountability, not just this episode the fact that we are doing it. I think we mutually held each other accountable to a project that we all wanted to do that started from intuit ideas to something real.

I think when you’re freelancing when you start out you have to develop a productive schizophrenia. You have to be the do-er, and the rest is getting the stuff done. You have to be the executor or have executive control and be telling yourself what to do. Then you have to make sure that you are settling yourself with these important goals.

When we are talking about how you price yourself as a freelancer is to sell a solution. You don't sell an hourly rate; you don't sell the website. You sell the solution, which happens to be a website.

Let's talk about the mindset, Seth Godin talks about this a lot, one of the reasons that people don't jump into acting like legitimate business is because they lacked confidence and they are hiding. You need to examine your behaviors and habits and see where you are holding yourself back, where are you hiding.

From staying hungry to leveraging your downtime, learn the slash podcast 10 rules for a successful side hustle.

Don't wait too long to get started, especially in launching your initial offer. As Reid Hoffman once famously said, "If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late."

From cloud-based accounting software to an easy screen capture video recording, learn more about the top seven tools we could not live without.

Off the back of Part I, we are walking through a list of ideas of "what" you can sell as a freelancer or online entrepreneur. From services billed by the hour to custom 30-day lesson plans, online courses and paid webinars, spend 20 minutes with us and get inspired on what could be your next product.

A blog is not a business. A website is not a business. A business card is not a business. You have to sell something in order to be a business.

Finding your why is really about knowing and finding your purpose. What is the reason for embarking on a life that’s going to fraught with risk, unstable and unpredictable revenue streams?

You may be a first-time freelancer, somebody who is young or old, or middle aged and has never done had their own business before but wanting to try something new. You might be someone who has been forced to change or has had their job eliminated, taken away willingly or unwillingly. You could be somebody who is in the middle of your career who is looking for what we in this Gigonomics ecomony call a "side hustle." Sound right? Welcome to Slash Podcast— how do you work?