Hey,
Where do entrepreneurs make the big money?
Hint: It’s not from selling products or services.
The big money comes from selling the business.
Have you ever heard this quote: Entrepreneurship is about living a few years of your life like most won’t, so that you can live the rest of your life like most can’t.
I think about this quote all the time.
What can I do today, that will make my future better.
I apply this every day to my business.
How can I improve my business today, so that it performs better tomorrow.
Hiring freelancers to work for us has consistently given us a positive return on investment.
A sales page redesign doubled our sales.
One blog post cost us $100 4 years ago. It now makes us over $1500/month and gets us 30,000 visitors/month!
We doubled our search traffic last year. Was it because we dramatically increased our page loading times? Is that also why our conversions went up again?
All these investments pay for themselves within days…
Play the long game where you think past making a buck today, so that you can make 10 bucks tomorrow.
Last year we launched a new website called AwesomeWeb.com
You go to AwesomeWeb to find and hire the best freelance designers and developers.
All you have to do is search for the skills you are looking for and it will show you freelancers meeting your criteria. Then you can browse through their portfolios, decide who you like and contact them, all without paying us anything or registering on the site.
One thing we kept getting asked, over and over, was for a job board feature.
Business owners, bloggers, and entrepreneurs just like yourselves, wanted to post an ad and let our awesome freelancers come to you.
So we built a Job Board
We originally didn’t want to include a job board because we didn’t like the environment they create on our competitors sites. It essentially turns every job into a bidding war, where often, the cheapest bidder wins. The problem is, the cheapest is often the worst, in every way imaginable. Poor communication. Poor coding practices. Cuts corners. Little attention to detail etcetera etcetera.
This doesn’t exist with AwesomeWeb, for two big reasons:
1. EVERY single member on our platform goes through an approval process. If they are not good enough, they get declined. On average we decline over 25% of members. Which may not seem like a lot, but we are also one of the only freelance marketplaces who charge freelancers for membership. This results in not only a community of the best freelancers but also members who take business seriously. Which is something you want.
2. Freelancers cannot see what other freelancers are saying or bidding. 100% open communication. When a freelancer see’s your job, they are invited to start a conversation. Members are encouraged to add each other on Skype, this doesn’t exist on other sites because they charge the client (you), a percentage of the project fee for their service and if you are talking outside of their site, you may cut them out which means they lose money. Again this just leads to poor communication and an environment where no one wins.
Our job board is easy to use and leads you effortlessly through the process.
To post a job, visit this page.
Briefly describe what you do and your target audience. After that tell us what you want and how you want it.
Then hit Publish Job.
We won’t be releasing the job board update to freelancers for a couple more days. For maximum exposure, make sure to publish your job as soon as possible so that when we go live to members, you have our whole community looking.
I hope you enjoy this new feature, we have many more planned.
Michael
PS. If you are stuck on what to hire a freelancer for, here are some suggestions that apply to 90% of sites I see:
- Hire a developer to make your website 100% responsive so that it looks flawless on every device. This increases conversions and search engine rankings.
- Hire a designer to produce a branding package. Including: Logo, Favicon (little image next to name in browser tab), Social Media Graphics, Business Cards. Get one person to do it all so that it will match and make your brand look a notch above the rest. This is a great opportunity to pick a colour scheme to keep to going forward.
- Customised website headers for different seasons (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year, Easter, Halloween)
- Banner adverts for your site to promote sales pages and squeeze pages. Affiliates can also use them to promote you.
- Completely redesign your whole site. If you are making money right now and you haven’t had a professional designer work on your site, then you are losing money. If you pay someone $2000 to design your site and you start to make $500 extra a month, is it worth it? Of course it is!
- Get a developer to optimise your site for page speed. The faster your site, the higher your conversions, the better Google ranks you.
- Get a developer to build that mobile app you have wanted to build for AGES.
Now go to the Awesomeweb Job Board
