How to Travel While Freelancing
Lesson 57 from: Fiverr Pro BootcampScott Lancaster
How to Travel While Freelancing
Lesson 57 from: Fiverr Pro BootcampScott Lancaster
Lesson Info
57. How to Travel While Freelancing
Lessons
Fiverr Pro Bootcamp
1Introduction to the Program
06:52 2Fiverr Seller Levels
11:17 3Pros & Cons of Fiverr
09:41 4Follow These Rules or Get Banned on Fiverr
07:02 5How to Attract High-Quality Clients
14:49 6How to Spot Nightmare Clients
13:31 7Keeping Your Response Time Low
03:42Using Promoted Gigs on Fiverr
05:42 9Overview of the Fiverr Dashboard
08:51 10Taking a Break from Fiverr
03:46 11Seller Plus Program - Is It Worth It?
02:04 12Fiverr Analytics
03:39 13Getting Your First Fiverr Sale
04:23 14The Perfect Profile Picture
03:04 15Service Provider vs. Helpful Doctor
05:46 16Profile Description
02:43 17Sharing Skills on Your Profile
02:01 18Linking to Other Accounts
02:33 19Showcasing Your Education
02:56 20Niching Down as a Freelancer
01:55 21Strategically Deciding Which Services You Will Offer
04:06 22How Long Do You Have to Wait to Apply for Fiverr Pro
02:25 23Preparing to Apply for Fiverr Pro
05:35 24The Fiverr Pro Application Process
04:54 25What Happens Once You're Accepted onto Fiverr Pro
02:12 26Dealing with Anxiety as a Freelancer
06:34 27Handling Imposter Syndrome as a Freelancer
04:36 28How to Not Get Stressed with Managing Lots of Projects
05:19 29Creating the Perfect Gig Title
01:57 30Writing the Perfect Gig Description
02:48 31Creating the Perfect Gig Video
02:25 32Creating the Perfect Gig Thumbnail
02:01 33Pricing Your Packages with Anchor Pricing
04:27 34Finding the Perfect Gig Tags
01:55 35Showcasing Your Work as Part of Your Portfolio
01:51 36Custom Gigs
04:41 37Milestone Gigs
02:47 38Setting Up Requirements Properly
03:56 39Manage Clients Like a Fiverr Pro
03:46 40How to Have a Successful Sales Call
08:32 41Setting Up Quick Responses
05:30 42Linking Up Calendly with Your Fiverr Profile
04:54 43Using Positive Reviews to Get More High-Quality Clients
04:54 44How to Tackle Negative Reviews and Turn Them into Positive Ones
13:55 45How to Encourage Clients to Write Long Positive Reviews About You on Fiverr
07:30 46Balancing Quality with Quantity
03:43 47How to Sell Services on Fiverr at a Premium
05:24 48What to Do When a Client Doesn't Reply
06:31 49What to Do When a Client Wants to Cancel the Order
08:18 50The Snowballing Method - Keeping Orders in Queue
04:38 51How to Get Favorites on Fiverr
01:28 52Upselling, Cross-Selling and Building Long-Term Client Relationships
04:42 53Brand & Portfolio Building
04:00 54Creating a Professional Email Template
01:23 55Project Management Made Easy with Notion
07:30 56How to Stay Focused While Working Remotely
06:51 57How to Travel While Freelancing
05:42 58Tracking & Growing Your Net Worth
02:04 59My Personal Journey Becoming a Freelancer
11:46 60When to Go Full-Time as a Freelancer
06:25 61Investment Strategies for Each Stage of Your Freelance Journey
04:50 62The Legal Side (NDAs, Contracts and Licenses)
02:59 63Final Thoughts
02:01Introduction to the Program
Lesson Info
How to Travel While Freelancing
So how to travel effectively whilst freelancing. Now, I've had the experience of traveling a lot of different countries whilst being a freelancer in particular, when I lived in China for a few years, I now live in South East Asia. I've lived in Dubai, Georgia, Europe. I've literally been everywhere since I started freelancing just because I had a ton of time and lots of energy to travel and obviously a lot of freedom as well because I wasn't restricted to a specific job in a particular location. One of the things that I personally did when I was starting to freelance and I actually went freelancing full time is to book a flight to actually teach myself how to freelance whilst traveling. So my first ever trip was my birthday when I booked a flight from where I was from to Madrid. And I spent my time in Madrid by myself just working in cafes and just hanging out and just enjoying Spain. And what that taught me is that I could actually do the work that I was going to do at home, but I can...
do it anywhere that I want in the world. So what that started to teach me is that the further I went away from my home town, the more comfortable I became with the fact that I could literally freelance anywhere. And that might sound a little bit silly. But there are some things that are quite difficult about freelancing when you're in a foreign country. For example, in China, the internet connection is pretty terrible in the fact that you cannot use Google unless you have a VPN, which is super annoying or you can't have meetings sometimes because they are just, the connection is never that great. And you know, for example, when I was in the Philippines, my data got hacked. So I basically lost all of my accounts. Although it has some of its challenges, the pros outweigh the cons by a long, long way. And the reality is that when you start to get good at managing projects and kind of having a consistent income through five, you can literally go anywhere in the world and basically live anywhere without having to worry about ever coming back to your home town. I mean, I haven't been back to Britain for a good few years now and I know that if I ever want to see my family, I can invite them to come and see me and we can spend some time together in a really nice place in the world or I can maybe meet them in another city. And I know that no matter where I go, I will always have my work with me as long as I have my laptop and an internet connection. And one of the main challenges when you're actually freelancing on the go is finding great places to work. So some of the best places that I've personally found is to schedule my time to do most of my work when I'm flying. And just before I actually get on the flight when I'm in the airport, because they always have really strong internet connections, at least in the airports that I've been in. And when I'm on the flight, I always do a ton of work because obviously I've got nothing else better to do. Obviously, it's very rare that you have internet connection or at least decent internet connection on the actual flight. But as long as you download everything and you can just work off line, you can get a ton done. So that's a really great tip. Obviously, cafes is a great one. Finding great cafes where you can really spend the day once you find a cafe where you really feel comfortable and you really feel productive, don't change it. Just keep going to the same place and you are going to be super productive, then you can go out and enjoy your time and obviously explore and see all the incredible places that your particular city that you're visiting has to offer another place where I always tend to spend a lot of my time when I'm freelancing, when traveling, or at least when I used to freelance and travel is to basically use my airbnb on my hotel because I know that it's reliable. I know that I can definitely have meetings there because the internet connected. I know I always have a plug sucker, which is always the biggest challenge when you're a freelancer and you're traveling around and you need charge for your laptop. But the only cafe that seems to have an actual extension or any sort of power suppliers, Starbucks, which you know, Starbucks love them or hear them not really my cup of tea or coffee. Should I say it's just really important that you have that safe space where if you need to, you can really get some productive work done because it's really easy when you're traveling to get distracted by everything that's going on and you want to go to this new place and that place. I mean, one thing that you could always do is just kind of give yourself a little bit of a holiday that doesn't always work because obviously you do want to keep that momentum of running your business and actually keeping up with clients and obviously making as much money as possible. Now, obviously managing your work life balance when you are traveling as a freelancer is super difficult sometimes and you're kind of fighting between your responsibilities as a freelancer, but also wanting to travel the world and see all these incredible places. And what I would suggest is to simply make sure that you get up as early as possible, get your responsibilities done and then enjoy the rest of your day because there's nothing worse than going around and trying to enjoy different experiences and different locations and different sites, for example, and worrying about the work that you have to do when you get home. It's just not great. And it's just personally what I prefer. I prefer getting everything done early in the morning or as early as possible and then going out and enjoying the rest of my time. So I can really relax and enjoy my time within the new culture that I'm exploring. Anyway. I hope you found the experiences that I'm sharing with you helpful. If you're thinking about traveling as a freelancer, please feel free to pop me a message. If you have any questions, if you're thinking about traveling in regards to where you should go or anything like that, I'm more than happy to share some of my experiences with you personally. But until then I will see you in the next lesson.