Making $378K A Year As A Fiverr Freelancer
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- Опубліковано 9 бер 2021
- Alex Fasulo, 28, is a freelance writer on Fiverr and makes $378,000 a year. She primarily ghostwrites e-books and blog posts remotely from Florida. Before becoming a freelancer in 2016, Alex worked in PR and made $36,000 a year.
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Making $378K A Year As A Fiverr Freelancer
Let’s not mistake this for easy money. This woman is most likely an excellent writer and an obsessive proofreader.
very true unless she is working with others. Its not easy, especially editing. I worked at a place where 2 editors had a mental meltdown, because the business owner was too cheap to hire more editors and he worked them day and night (including weekends).
Nothing good is ever easy. But the learning lesson here is that she developed herself in a high quality subject matter expert. By delivering quality product, her rating increased which means her fees could increase - one begets the other. On a separate note, this is one of the better Making It videos I’ve seen in a while.
yeah the problem is that alot of tik tok kids believe everything and drop out of school cause they see an easy way out but in reality, freelancing or etc is not for eveyone, you must be really passionate about it.
Yeah this is more like the free market rewarding skill and efficiency
Sure, but she just said she only works 40hrs a week. For her, this is easy money, but for anyone else who tries to go down this path, they'd be lucky to make 50k a year working 60 hrs.
People here are talking about her talent, but I see very few people talking about her discipline. The discipline to manage yourself in a non corporate environment where you have no one to answer to and no one to keep you in check, I personally think that is very very commendable. And I also think that is one of the big things that contributed to her success.
She is fraudulent, google her. She outsources her work. She had completed 11,000 gigs. No way she did it on her own
@@vija992 She's been at it since 2017, so ~4 years, working 5 days a week is ~1000 days. Given that some of the work she does is editing, writing blog posts, or IG posts, I can easily see her cranking out ~11 of those a day. Not everything is an ebook. And if she's capable of writing 10k word ebooks in 2 days then she's clearly a fast writer.
@@vija992 as you grow u must outsource some work. Even amazon was doing it himself from his garage and later he got people working for him. It is the same thing. She must get other cheaper writers and then edit their work b4 submitting it. If she does it all by herself she will break down
Very well said
@@ayojoy1443 that's not the point of my comment. Outsourcing is not bad in itself, but not being transparent about your practices is. And she does lots of other questionable things too. I mean, she is praised on this video, and it's CNBC to blame for giving her the spotlight without researching her properly
I wish her continued success! When my husband started his business he worked 18 hour days. He saw clients during the day and did all the quotes/office work at night. Year 1 was $275k. With tremendous discipline it can be done.
18hr a day? I hope that didn't last too long cause he will be dead in no time.
Lol
Sounds horrible... I hope he's really passionate about this
What business?
what kind of business?
I wanna see one featuring an older millenial, born in the 80's, who got a late start but is crushing it now.
Yeah, seeing more successes about the Forgotten Generation would be nice. I think we're all but forgotten, though.
Yes
Me!!!!
Yup
That’s me. Slaved it out for 15 years in retail. Software engineer now. The last five years of my life have been transformative beyond any reality I grew up with.
she found her niche. she did it. she sounds happy, doing what she loves. she made it.
Yep it's marketing. Do it. Market yo self.
Amen. Enough said
@@ericwood3709 Why are they fake? Where do you get this info about her? I’m curious
She's living the dream doing what you love and making bank
this is fiverr pro ads
The thought of writing 10,000 words in two days makes me sad.
She clearly loves her work and has a talent for it.
Facts I always hated writing
For the average person who enjoys writing, 10,000 words could be done in maybe 6-8 hours. It's primarily proof reading and combing-through the details that takes the most time, usually.
If you worked 5 hours a day, that's 16 words a minute. Roughly a word every four seconds. I dunno - seems doable.
@@JaydenLawson That's assuming you already know the words that will be used. Usually when writing you go through many poses while thinking about which words to use and how to continue your paragraphs. Depending on the topic at hand you could also need some or a lot of research, which takes considerable time.
@@stand4justice4867 sure. Add some research time. I'm just saying, if you're in the zone, and you've trained yourself to get in the zone, it doesn't seem that impossible in that timeframe
As a writer locked up in a corporate job now, this is just so inspiring! There is a way out! Or if not out, then another way! Thanks so much for this!!!
Myra, go for it. You can do it
same feeling Man, As teen ager I loved writing through the years and 9-5 Jobs I became exhausted and lost my confidence , now trying to reset and find out if I can do something writing
Go for it but don't believe anything you see on UA-cam also
You forgot the "* results not typical" part.
If Fiverr contacted her to do an ad, then she's at the top tier. It's like Michael Jordon come out and tell you he made millions from playing his favorite sport, and you can too. It's 100% true and deceptive at the same time.
Well she did say that she started by making 15 a day and slowly rose to be number 2 in their tier. That alone is a feat.
@@irmar I think the fact that it is a feat is Livid Imps point
She literally said she was inducted into a special tier of Fiverr. How much clearer does the video have to be that this isn't typical??
hmm? she's at the top tier NOW. She wasn't before. Rags to riches.
I feel like she wouldn't be able to do this if she wasn't good looking. I don't see her doing this if she was obese.
She changed my life. I found her on tiktok and started following her advice because I'm a writer myself and I owe a lot to her because her advice came during COVID when I lost my job.
Are you making a good amount now ?
How are you doing now, Are you getting writing gigs?
Would def be interested to know how it helped. Best of luck!
Awesome!! Are you a freelance writer now? What kind of advice did you follow?!
This is a scam. The person commenting is likely part of it. Don't fall for it people. They lure you in and then sell courses. It's an oversaturated market filled with cheap slave labour.
What if you outsourced your freelance work to other freelancers at a lower cost and then just chilled
thts what I was thinking, but prob cause quality control is hard especially on fiver with no real contracts. Also if a deadline isnt met then the responsibility is 100% on her cause she was the one hired for her work.
anyway she seems to be good at/enjoy her job and management is a completely different job but it does sound like shes trying other things which is good.
legendary comment from the legend himself.
Become a producer
For certain jobs she probably could
People do that
After doing a little research it became apparent this girl is running a content mill: as many others have noted, the numbers do not, and cannot, add up. She outsources most/all of her writing projects, apparently to non-native-English-speaking writers, according to some of her customers. Her hustle seems to be selling courses to young people who don't know any better.
dumb and naive people who don't know any better buying courses? yeah, that's just a giant Red Flag when some "influencers" have links on their profile to their courses lol. I think one day I'm going to do that too. the easiest way to lure people pay for horseshits.
Interesting, thanks
It's kind of hilarious how many losers are worshiping her like she is not making this amount of money through surreptitious methods.
@@smellypatel5272 nah she really made that from Fiverr. The influencer stuff and course stuff is newer and a great way to scale her business and income.
No, she built a team of like minded people on fiver to help manage her operations and tedious tasks like emails etc so she can focus on the meat and potatoes. This is crucial to being successful in any entrepreneur taking the next step.
Bless the algorithm for recommending this video, she's a great inspiration!
I think we should normalise talking about money and earnings. I think she’s brilliant, definitely inspiring.
100%
yes because it helps us all to know her earnings and motivates our own intentions to succeed
@@MaryBartnikowski definitely
corporates don't want that, or how else they are gonna manipulate the pay scale of different employees.
Absolutely not. I’m 26 and make over 700k a year. The amount of greed, hate, jealously, and envy that comes with this is disgusting. I am happy to be free but sad that it came at the price of my social life.
Let's not mistake this for something easy that anyone can do to make 15k a month online. Writing is a talent and on top of that, doing anything for anyone else is hard work, doesn't matter how much you love it, you're still not doing it for yourself.
More importantly, she got in on the ground floor of fiver and did the grind for a couple of years. I assume trying to break into her gig now with similar success is probably impossible. Awesome for her but I wouldn't quit my day job. Now she wants to sell her path like the other drop-shipping dude bros which is disappointing.
@@collin9085 yeah, u could quit your job if u invested smart
True. If I tried this I wouldn't do well creating stories and biographies. My strength would be in editing. Proofreading.
Writing is not a talent. Like visual arts, it's something anyone can practice and get better at. People tend to give up though, in the learning stages and believe they have no talent for it. I couldn't read or write properly, during ALL my formal education. Teachers plastered my work with red pen, corrections. After leaving school though, I decided to write a book, just for me. I was completely driven, by putting words together. This was just prior to Google search engines, so I used a dictionary and thesaurus. Now everyone I know, asks me how to spell, and proofread their work. Even employed as a Legal Secretary, where words are law. The key really is to be driven enough. Even if you're not doing it for yourself, for the most part, that's where you start.
@@Christodophilus Exactly! Writing is a skill, and it gets easier with practice.
Talent, Work Ethic, Good decisions, Professional Advice ( Accounts, Lawyers), Calculated risk taker equals success. It is rare to find all these qualities in one individual that is why she is a 1 percenter born in the USA. She is an undeniable raging success and deserves all she has. Congrats to her and her family, they must be proud of her.
Awesome and inspiring!
This made me smile. It’s brings me joy to see people make it in something they know they’ve always been good at. I can relate to that feeling of hating her job and feeling out of place.
crazy, with her work ethic she actually might have been a great corporate worker but not have made the money she does now. She basically earns small company CEO/founder money
Except it's all a scam... and she's really trying to sell courses because fiverr is oversaturated with cheap labor. Don't be a sucker
@@ryansmithc You could have called it a scam when she was starting out, and her clients were calling out the low quality of her deliverables, refusing to re-hire her, and leaving her bad reviews on Fiverr.
Obviously that hasn’t happened. She’s churning out a lot of work, because to her clients it’s still very valuable and high quality work.
The value of writing deliverables is easily measured. You can’t call it a scam when the data is showing otherwise.
@@ryansmithc Not _really_ a scam. Her profile has ~7000 positive reviews and she charges ~75$ per gig so if you add everything up since 2015 she made about half a million $$. I suppose the number 378K is mostly from her last year on the platform. I am sure that there is quite a fair amount of exaggeration going on in terms of results but it still adds up.
@@cyberlord64 okay so what's her link?
@@ryansmithc Her Fiverr is Faswaldo.
And my mom said writing would never pay. Turns out all I needed were the right opportunities.
Look into financial copywriting
Except it's all a scam... and she's really trying to sell courses because fiverr is oversaturated with cheap labor. Don't be a sucker
Some people can’t see the opportunities there are to earn income and a create a decent living beyond the typical 9-5. Where others see opportunities some see something that’s “impossible” or “won’t work.” The good thing is you don’t need the approval of others to be able to pursue your goals, you need to just believe in yourself, and ultimately take action towards those goals, and have patience and not give up just because you might not see results right away. 👍
Not 100% accurate. You need knowledge, hardwork, and perseverance before and after getting the opportunity. Opportunity in the hands of oblivious people won't work, it works when you know how to use it properly.
Key take away: There's no such thing as easy money. What makes it seem easy are your attitudes and feelings towards the work you do.
@@ryansmithc Great someone has the brain to see the lies. Let us do quick math, 378k a year . Assume she works all year long, minus 2 weeks vacation, say 50 weeks, that's $7560 per 40 hour week, ie $189 per hour. Fiverr takes 20% of what the clients pay, so I assume this is her take home, in other words, 80% of what she actual makes. So she makes about $236 an hour , writing ebooks and blogs on Fivrr. Wow! Not too bad... I am sure there are a few doctors and lawyers that will be jealous!
Her story is a good example of how bad/ draining/ or not ideal situations can propel a person to step into their purpose. Big Ups.
Dayjobs are like being stuck in highschool. Sure you get paid, but now everyone has kids and you no longer hang out. Instead of talking about your dreams and aspirations for the future(most have given up on that) they talk about winning the lottery and gossip about the one still trying to make it. The Matrix was a documentary.
That's 40 pages in 2 days. I don't know anyone who writes and proofreads this fast on a consistent basis, & I know many professional writers. Writing is brain intense. I'd like to see CNBC show more proof with its interviews, including tax information. Also, I'd love to see samples of writing. Does anyone remember their high school or college teacher telling them that writing is easy and then pulling an all nighter to crunch out an average paper? Anyway, buyer beware.
Totally agree with you!
GOOD FOR HER! They are just jealous that this girl is crushing it while they sit in their basement writing mean comments on her page.
LMAO
Nice seeing u here
Thank you!!!
Jokes on you. I don't even own a basement!
Agreed!!!
She really shows how much money a hard working, competent, dedicated employee really generates. She keeps all her income instead of helping support deadbeat coworkers and managers.
This comment made me LOL. We've all had them. I had a co worker who showed up late EVERY DAY, I'm talking 20-30 minutes late. He would say, "What did I miss?" and expect me to stop my work to fill him in.
Shes not an employee!
Coworkers are deadbeat because they know working harder does not make you more money. Sheesh. Punch up not down or across. Oh and before you ask, yes I’m that deadbeat coworker. Studies have already proven that working harder for your bosses makes them richer and you burnt out. I don’t burden my coworkers at least. I just do the bare min and clock out.
@@serenesista Being too smart, competent or productive makes employees a threat to supervisors and managers. Complimenting, agreeing, liking their bad taste, telling stupid managers how intelligent or insightful (maybe too big of a word for them) they are will get you bonuses and promoted. Pretending to work is often more important than accomplishing real work. Many bosses will only care how well you treat them.
Umm she is NOT an employee, she's an ENTREPRENEUR
This is GOALS! I recently signed up for Upwork to get into the freelance writer life and immediately doubled my hourly rate with no issues. She's right that you can make a ton of money but that discipline and dedication is another skill all in itself. Super inspiring! Love this.
Upwork is a great platform for writers, I've been earning there for 8 years now. For me, creating a workable system for writing personalized proposals so I don't spend as much time writing proposals (cover letters) as I do actually doing the job was the key to success. I also learned to trust my instincts when it comes to deciding which jobs to take a pass on. I have more than 30 years of professional experience as a journalist, editor, and copywriter, but there were times in the past when I got desperate and took relatively low-paying jobs just to keep earning. I finally stopped settling for anything but "expert" level pay a couple years ago and have had great results. Keep at it, keep expanding your skillset, build a great portfolio (very important!), and you will succeed, too. Best of luck to you🙂
i admire her discipline. i made Fiverr to see if I can sell my work and within 3 weeks of creating my account i'm slowly beginning to get in orders. i get about 2 a day, pale in comparison to her but tbh, it's a graft. managing your own workload with your personal life, managing the people behind the orders, even though i only get 2 a day (lmao) it's honestly hard. you really have to manage your time and discipline yourself. no where near six figures (yet) but i just quit my day job this morning because i'm breaking even without the hassle or headache of managers and rude customers
She can write 10k words in 2 days while I'm struggling to write a paragraph in a week for class
Or she has a good system, a team (or teams) of people from 3rd world countries who write the stories, and she just edits...for example.
@@thatotau7478 Where are you getting this info from
@@thatotau7478 Exactly. Before i was ghostwriter for students. I helped to finish their work as well. For good work (with good research & without plagiarism) it takes an hour to write 500-600 words. So 5k for 10 hours, with dinner and stretching it becomes 12-13 hours. It exhausts you mentally, you are always stressed. As u said i dont believe she does all the work all alone. Maybe she started solo first, but now she definitely has network from third world, from India i guess, their service is very cheap, coz they need constant order. For instance even 20% of 1000$ is very big money for them for work of 10k
🤣
@@umirakh6802 you used to be a ghost writer? You on LinkedIn?? Let's connect, I wanna ask some questions
Alex is the real deal!! So cool to see her featured on CNBC :)
You're the best Charlie!!!
You guys are all scammers.
Charlie u r the real deal!
@@ryansmithc u r fake news
@@ryansmithc - lol you're posting on EVERY comment :P
She's hustling and getting rich while I'm here watching UA-cam videos. All kidding aside, she's got a skill most of the world doesn't have if she's that prolific with her writing.
She's a scammer. Here's why:
She used an automatic text generating program + outsourced her Fiverr work to 3rd world writers. This allowed her to knock out projects FAST.
Her $350k income figure includes her Shopify store and Course sales. It's NOT from Fiverr alone. It's actually fraudulent to combine multiple forms of income & then claim it's one source in your advertisement. She's opening herself up to an FTC lawsuit.
She's not subtracting the amount of money she's paid out to contractors from this income figure. I also suspect she's padding the number a bit.
It's a shame she's misleading new writers into thinking they can easily make multiple 6-figures on Fiverr.
Hint: you can't.
@@kaberigomes2117 Source: trust me bro
@@xdtony650? You don't have to trust me.. Believe it if you want or you can research for yourself, and read the reddit pages where her replies are documented.
@@kaberigomes2117 I assume the content is in English - so I doubt 3rd world writers could write something that is in perfect English? Where did you get this information from?
@@SwatiPatelnz You could either find the semantics wrong, and make that a point of judgement for truth . Or understand the context to see the point that i made.
She used a Indian writer to write a few projects, as far i as remember from reddit. Now you can argue Indians can't write in 'Perfect English', or isn't a 3rd world country.
Or trust the story itself.
This thread is old, so i am not going to add any more comments.
If you are incredulous, i encourage you to do your research. 👍.
And then you'll be satisfied with your conclusion. 💁🏻♂️
Good for you and great story! I love how you supported your Mom and get to do work you enjoy. Post about your money, life and whatever else you're proud of. Haters are gonna regardless, don't ever dim your light for them.
All she really needed to convince us was a rented Lambo and garage shelves full of books.
'Here in my garage, with my Lamborghini..'
Knowledge
Lol sounds very Tai Lopez’ish 😂
Whaaaat 🤣🤣😫
KNAWLEDGEEE
It also says, she worked 10-12 hrs 7 days a week (meaning she has no other obligations) & it took 3 yrs. (2016-18), not some overnight success. She also had private clients, plus social media clients, etc. & Fivver controls who can be labeled a PRO & thus charge higher rates! So, this is clearly more of an oddity than a norm! But good on her & more power to her.
She got in Fivver early also. Higher barrier to entry now with so much competition.
Onlyfans sitting at home with mommy
@@lifesucksgetoverit5440 you are embarrassing yourself.....
@@ralphfurley4217 Fiverr started in 2010. So she started in 2010 and worked for 11 years to get where she is now?
@@lifesucksgetoverit5440 you are exactly the type of person she describes in the video. Learn how to do something positive with your life so you aren’t hating on the success of others.
Watched this twice as it’s very inspiring/ i like how no shortcuts were given or taken- she works hard and is earning what she feels worthy of - and she helped her mom?! Good humans exist!!!
Congratulations Alex! You obviously worked hard and deserve the rewards for your efforts!
It is so sad that there are trolls and haters. That's one of our big societal problems right now. I'm glad you didn't let them get you down!
If i don't see this on Graham Stephan's channel in 24 hours..i'll be disappointed
He's not gonna be happy with only $100k in retirement!!!
That putz
Was thinking the same thing 🤣
@@huntstyle It's probably taken her 5 years since she quit her job to get to this point so $100K is actually quite a lot. I'm sure it'll be much more than that over the next 5 years!
@@jtv1110 did you watch the whole vid? She's made $1 million in the last 3 years. But she did say later that she loaned like $280k to her mom to buy a house, and since her mom has paid her back. So she has done a good job at saving, just not a very good job at investing that money, but said she's planning to buy some property there. Sounds like she's planning to pay cash for it, though, which isn't smart. Leverage is your friend!
As a freelancer I doubt her income is the same every year. But yeah, anyone who can write a book in 2 days is an extremely talented individual. Good for her!
Can the books really that good if its written in 2 days
@@calvinfan6330 Yes! If you're as talented as Alex.
@@jaspherdansalan635 well i guess your right. I just hate writing papers so 10,000 words is dreadful to me.
@@calvinfan6330 She definitely has a unique talent for doing it, there's no way she'd be paid this much unless there was something very special about her and her abilities. She's lucky she's found a way to harness to do something lucrative, we should all be so lucky.
That's true, but even if she's making 100k less for let's say a slow year, that's still a lot of money,
Wow... amazingly impressive. I'm currently finishing up my bachelors in strategic communications and her story is so inspiring!
started doing this a month ago, I'm already making more per hour I could ever make from the job i'll get from studying
Her: Makes money for legit reasons with skill and tries to teach others.
Most "entrepreneur" guys: HEY, LET ME SHOW YOU HOW TO MAKE XX,XXX A MONTH, NO SKILL, SPEND NO TIME ETC.
I HAVE THIS WEIRD TRICK THAT CAN MAKE YOU MILLIONS ITS ALL IN MY LIMITED EDITION EBOOK ONLY AVAILABLE FOR THE NEXT 48 HOURS
Those guys make me roll my eyes
@@GlobalFreeLiving faswaldo
@@GlobalFreeLiving i am with you though, doesn't seem legit. She runs a course so is 100% pushing that for her revenue.
Give me your email address
10,000 word e-book in two days?
outsource your work and profit
@@samelmudir she gots wage slaves
@@samelmudir there's no way she could even edit that much
one of the amazing souls I have ever known. She spilled out everything about how she gained so much money and doesn't spend too much on herself.
My 3k words essay took me 2 months to finish 😅. You are really amazing x
KEEP SHARING PLEASE. This inspires me to get out of my depression!
Hard work really pays off. I hope I'm at that level when I'm 28. Less than two years left for me to make that happen
Shes in the top 1% most ppl dont make that much on Fiverr.
You got this! I believe in you.
Keep working hard and smart bro even if it doesn't happen at 28 (it may happen) it will happen within time and it may surprisingly be even greater than you expect ;)
Do it now dont wait
Except it's all a scam... and she's really trying to sell courses because fiverr is oversaturated with cheap labor. Don't be a sucker
Nice to see somebody killing it doing what they love, I pray she continues to be successful!
That’s so awesome!! I’m totally impressed and encouraged by your success. Thanks for the tips too. 👍
God bless you on your journey!!! And that dreadful job was a blessing in disguise.
Badass.
If only my grammar wasn’t trash 😂.
Her speaking is precise and clear and honest. Not a stumble. If she writes like she speaks i can see why she is successful.
grammarly.com
Well done
Omg my favourite among us music
FIVERR is not easy money. You must have talent, skill and work hard.
Facts people really think it’s that easy
This lady is a writing machine! I never thought writers could make so much! This makes me really happy, even though I'm not a writer by any stretch of imagination. I just think artists deserve more than what they usually get.
It's easy when you have a team ,use software and lie
she is smart she didnt stay in one place
loved this! very intelligent woman, this is pure inspiration for anyone putting up excuses to abandon the corporate life.
Glad to see some making it! You go girl!
How awesome is this?! I mean I was amazed when I made $1600 in January as a side hustle on Fiverr. Now it has been very quiet... Hopefully I can make more this year 🙌🏼
Best of luck to you!
What were you doing on Fiverr? Congrats
Advertising is key
@@jasminecontreras7341 Finnish/English translations ☺️
@@colorfulcodes thanks!! 🙌🏼
speak for yourself im emotionally prepared for it😂😂😂😂
🤣
😂
😂
Right!!😂😂 I’m emotionally, psychologically, spiritually ready
Same..holla!🙌🏼
Wow, kudos to you and your hard work and talent for paying off! I too hung onto cash for so long for the same reason, thanks for sharing that so that I don't feel so stupid. You are so empowering and a role model. I will be following you! Ugh, I'm sorry for those nasty comments!! Thank you for being vulnerable and generous with your story and knowledge.
Kudos to Alex. There are so many people who jump into entrepreneurship with alot of talent, skills and knowledge coming from a previous job or career and fail miserably because they have no drive, discipline or system in place to keep making money. Good job Alex. The sky is the limit. Even if you started doing other business models, you most likely will succeed because you have shown that you can stick with it. Alot of people just quit when adversity hits them in the face.
The grind is real 🙌 fair play to her! That’s insane
Alex, you are so well spoken! I really enjoyed your transparency and genuine zest for life. Keep doing you!
I love this, so inspirational. I can wait for you to triple that!
You inspired me to try to be a voice-over in Fivver because I used to be a voice-over for Ads in China. I thank you so much for this program!
I was a freelance writer for over 20 years.
She's not the typical freelancer because she's writing e-books instead of white papers and case studies or like I did -articles for newspapers and magazines .
Im not surprised she's making a lot more money. Frankly, its a lot easier financially to be a freelance writer at least in terms of pay at least it was for me.
How much do you typically make as a freelance writer?
@@TheHandleOnUA-cam It. depends
I wrote for magazines and newspapers and their freelance fees. varied.
I was a local/regional freelancer.
People who write for national publications likely make more money.
@@MultiSmartass1 bruh you didn't answer the question
@@william_SMMA Yes I did.
For some reason, you didn't like the answer .
@@MultiSmartass1 No, u didn’t
the fact that she worked hard and then took out a majority of her savings to help her mother buy a house is amazing. Huge kudos for being so generous and loving and helping your own family.
Maybe it's because I'm not American but Mediterranean, but when she said she "LENT" the money to her mother instead of giving it to her made me go "WHAT?" Every Greek or Italian child making this kind of money would be honoured and happy to gift a house to the parents who made so many sacrifices, (time, money and all the rest) to raise their kids. Of course I realize that not all cultures are the same, so I shouldn't be judging anyone. But it was too jarring, it took me by surprise.
@@irmar stfu
@@irmar Gifting a house to her mom would require her or her mom to pay a substantial gift tax which I think is 40% of the value of the gift. By lending her mom the money with the expectation of receiving it back, neither of them have to pay that gift tax. I'm not saying she did this, but if I were them, I would pretend to loan the money and write out fake 'repayment' agreements in order to avoid that tax.
I love, love, love hearing these types of stories…. You are inspiring!
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I have been watching some videos and I was thinking about speculating. but I still don't know where we start from.
Ok I love this episode and might be one of my favorites! I love how she took the opportunity to leave her job and find a different and more compatible way to make money. Another inspiration! Only thing I wished they did was show that usual pie chart breakdown as opposed to mentioning what she spends here and there
I'd really love to see the breakdown of the revenue. How much comes from Fiverr projects vs the other things mentioned (online courses and "private clients")? Did she land 1 or 2 big clients and a few small ones? Also, writing is a creative process and an iterative process... I'm curious how she's able to churn out pieces like a factory. Does she specialize in certain topics, thereby avoiding tons of research? Is any of this automated?
I doubt it's automated. She works 10+ hours a day. She discusses a range of topics she writes about in the video, ex blog posts, copywriting.
Except it's all a scam... and she's really trying to sell courses because fiverr is oversaturated with cheap labor. Don't be a sucker
I am not her obviously but I am a freelance writer and make around 5k a month, working a maximum of twenty hours a week. Most writers indeed focus on specific topics; I write about medical finance and have a lot of knowledge about this topic which makes research really fast. Most writers specialize in specific topics so they can be referenced as an authority on that topic. Due to my speed I write articles around 1k words in about 1-1.5 hours, which nets me around $150. A lot of it becomes automatic which saves your energy for projects that are actually hard.
This is fake stuff... Let us do quick math, 378k a year . Assume she works all year long, minus 2 weeks vacation, say 50 weeks, that's $7560 per 40 hour week, ie $189 per hour. Fiverr takes 20% of what the clients pay, so I assume this is her take home, in other words, 80% of what she actual makes. So she makes about $236 an hour , writing ebooks and blogs on Fivrr. Wow! Not too bad... I am sure there are a few doctors and lawyers that will be jealous!
She’s definitely not making that much money on fiverr alone. Probably not even half of it but this is an ad for fiverr so they’re not gonna tell you that
Hi Alex! Just watched your video for the 1st time, & just wanna say THANK U! I've written my whole life & always felt I could be a published author, but lacked the confidence & knowledge to take it that far. Now I'm looking into it deeply. That's how I came across your video. Your happiness & contentment seem authentic, not staged, & u don't come across as big headed to me either. And don't worry about naysayers. U are HELPING people. U don't owe ANY apologies. I'm looking at u and see inspiration. I feel like there's still hope for me. I WANT MORE IN LIFE, & I'm gonna GET IT!🕊✌
Congratulations Alex. Well done to you. You have made your actions and gut feel your life. It’s difficult to do what you have done with your skills and talents. Not everyone would do it. Sometimes the easy safe option is comfortable. You challenged yourself and are winning on your terms. All the best to you and ignore the jealous haters. They just don’t have the talent, skills or guts to do it themselves. You have proven there is no roof for you. You are opening up your options. Wish you much success.
As someone who works at a large corporation, you can charge a LOT more than $1000 for 10,000 words. We pay more than that for 800 words.
what is your role / whats your companys industry ?
I know right I’d charge 10X
This is cray
@@soysaucetina Marketing Communications and tech.
@MoneyAdventure is that common?
If you rent on Airbnb, rent out for a minimum of two weeks to prevent the weekend partiers from ruining your place. I rent out my Florida mobile home for a minimum of a month in a 55+ community. The community insists on doing background checks on all of my renters. It has worked out well thus far.
Her story is inspiring and uplifting. I’ve been navigating around the internet for a while learning about finding freelance writing gigs and this video gave me a starting point. Thank you 🤗
Awwn big congratulations queen,this is so inspiring,God continually bless you, favour the work of your hands and keep you.thank you for sharing your beautiful story with us.Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors.
so proud of her
I love how this series covers jobs that are "new" to the digital economy (like Fiverr Freelancers or Twitch streamers)!
This is amazing. She should be so incredibly proud of herself. Watched a video on cnbc recently about people who refuse to pay back their student loans. It was discouraging to see people essentially give up. This could’ve been her but she found an opportunity in the face of adversity. Cheers to all your success.
You sound like such a fool. Student loans are nigh impossible to pay back due to how expensive they are and college is a poverty trap. Working hard at a job usually just means your boss gets richer while your income remains the same.
So inspiring!! Really well done :-) Love the transparency :-)
She's doing really well at making money but I hope she learns more about investing! Glad to hear she is getting into real estate though.
Hints the expanding into other fields including investing in homes airbnb etc
Alex, keep sharing this journey, and ignore the hate. You’ll inspire more women along the way. My daughters need more examples of success to look at as they grow up!
Holy smoke, write a book in two days, is that even possible?! So she is actually not making a lot of money, she is just so talented that she could squeeze years work into one. Good for you Alex!
She's a scammer. Here's why:
She used an automatic text generating program + outsourced her Fiverr work to 3rd world writers. This allowed her to knock out projects FAST.
Her $350k income figure includes her Shopify store and Course sales. It's NOT from Fiverr alone. It's actually fraudulent to combine multiple forms of income & then claim it's one source in your advertisement. She's opening herself up to an FTC lawsuit.
She's not subtracting the amount of money she's paid out to contractors from this income figure. I also suspect she's padding the number a bit.
It's a shame she's misleading new writers into thinking they can easily make multiple 6-figures on Fiverr.
Hint: you can't.
Kaberi Gomes How do you know this? I’m not being accusatory or shady. I’m just genuinely interested in knowing.
Especially as someone who enjoys writing and is good at it it just seems impossible that she’s able to write this much so I was skeptical too.
@@kaberigomes2117 it’s like you didn’t notice the $1M fiverr balance
@@tudy3044 Please tell me the time stop where it shows 1 million fiverr balance? Could easily be photoshop.. But let's not even go there.
But that still doesn't refute her asking for others writing works that she undertook. Like do you think i wrote all of that out of hatred for a stranger? Read the reddit page, it's pretty detailed.
But you know what, believe what you want, go try an and be a writer at fiverr and expect to earn 1 million.
If you are really that docile and pliable and amenable, good luck to you.
@weeekly loona elris If you're credulous enough to buy that. Go ahead. There's alot of crypotocurrency and stock market gurus who shows such figures. You should follow them.
What do you think is more credible, a PR video where she dresses up and tries to convince you with her earnings figure on a screen(, send me your email and i can show the exact screen with double the figure)
Or account of real people interaction with her.
I am not saying this out of temerity, or hubris, but you can believe what you want, as for me, i did my own research before having an opinion.
Definitely she has the talent for it. Smart Choices as well. As a freelancer for over 6 years on fiverr i can say i am doing almost everything she is doing. It’s really amazing to see her story.
Mind sharing a little about your average income?
I am a writer,mind if we interact more
Hiring people to complete tasks that are outside your zone of genius is a great path to growth. It lets you focus on the things that you're really passionate about.
And is a huge waste of money when you’re not yet rich.
@@jayshko You don’t necessarily need to be rich. You just need to have enough money for it to make sense and know how much value it is going to bring to you or your business. Getting people on your team that are professionals in their field can boost your business.
@@jayshko You don't have to be rich, the opportunity cost of you doing it yourself just needs to be higher than what you're paying someone else to do it for.
I have been looking to Invest I think this is the right time
@@brianrusso217 I've made Investing my retirement package and I think it will pay off well.
There is so much money out there in this world... You just need to grab it (easier said than done but it`s true). Congrats on your success!
I'm getting into the NFT art stuff. stilll early there and the money is so random. animation is king but I do photoshop which is still ok. the profit margins are soooooo good. even if you sell a digital piece to someone you get 10% when it is resold. so if it goes for 100K someday you get 10K.
Really isn't majority is owned by rich
If there was money out there they wouldn't have to inject money into economy
@@lifesucksgetoverit5440 It`s out there, people just don`t know where nor how to grab it
@@kassimo2169 Bullshii the money is lterally owned. by rich itherwise they wouldnt have to inject money into economy
It's just jelousy and there own personal egos that make them try to put you down. No-one likes seeing someone doing better than they are. Makes them feel less of themselves and inadiquate or a failure. Congratulations on everything you have achieved.
I'm also in fiverr 😅, never seen anyone could do this, but now I can see how far it can be done. Truly inspiring. Gotta work hard!!!
That is such an interesting topic! I enjoyed watching this video 🙋🏻♀️ 🎉 💥
Am happy for her, l haven't even made a cent on Fiveerr for almost a year now and l keep on updating my profile but no luck.
Are you a writer?
Right on sistah! 🥳 celebrating you and your wins 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Thank you for the inspiration ☀️✨✨
You go girl! This is wonderful and inspiring.
Up Next:
*"How to set up a Fiverr account"*
Im literally signing up for fiverr
Shes a scammer though.
so inspiring. i recently quit my job and was considering pitching myself to this company to write their blog posts. i have pushed it off forever but im gonna do it this week!
Do it!!
GOOD LUCK!
Do it and goodluck!!
Lol
You are so talented congratulations on all your success. I wish even more for you in your future!
I LOVE that she's so transparent!! GREAT JOB, ALEX!!! I don't know you but I'm PROUD OF YOU!
Lel she didn't even mention the fa t that she has a team in this video 😂
@@abdullahahmad4239 So what??
Why do I feel like I just watch a commercial for fiverr?
This is just what I needed to watch for Women's History Month. You go girl!
You got it!
👏🏽
Yes!! 🧡🧡🧡
How many months do you need to feed your narcissism
@@jameslave98 be quiet James
I am a writer too! I am finishing a course in writing for children by May of this year. I had four blogger awards nominations in the past two years. My blog is on WordPress. I am excited for you, Alex freelance writing is cool!
Alex, you keep on talking about the money you make (follow your instincts). You're an inspiration and a role model to other women and especially younger women who are just starting out and don't have much life experience. You remind me of my sister, she also had your philosophy and she was an amazing woman. More power to you (and I will be following your videos in the future).
If she wants to quit Fiverr, and move to teaching. She could also create her own copywriting/content creator company, and have others work for her just for another source of income where she has to put in minimal effort.
Incredible! What a phenomenal story. Thanks for inspiring Alex
You go, girl! What an inspiration. Thanks for sharing and I hope your life in Florida is very happy!
Alex! Do NOT shut your mouth up! Keep going! You rock!
YES! Literally never mind the haters. You're doing great, they're all living in their mama's basements LOL