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Dot, org number three zero three zero five years ago, when Chris Russell lost his job as a director of digital recruiting having his income instantly halted, was tough black crystal possessed. All the skills made him a valuable employ, even though he no longer was won his ability to find good candidates and placed them in the right jobs with minimal headache was a skilled lots of businesses. Need it So, instead of diving and looking for another, ninety five Chris decided to try his hand freelancing. For the next few years he made a living doing just that he would hustle finds in two.

Hurry work somewhere among the large network. He built up during his career and then move on to the next kick. It was a flexible but not always lucrative arrangement. Chris was always on the lookout for that next gig. He often had periods where he wasn't sure at the next one would even come in an effort to find something different. Chris investigated the website up work the world's largest market place for freelancers. He found some postings for each our experts, but since uproar excuse much more towards tech projects, there are few and far between also upward takes a large commission from each job, sometimes making it prohibitively expensive to use Chris felt like there had to be another way there wasn't. He was starting to think he was ass. Good, a person is any to make one his time on upward showed a need for a cheaper niche version of the site aimed specifically at the hr industry. In his vision, just like upward employers kip

Jobs on the site and freelancers could submit proposals to complete that work might seem simple enough. Chris knew that building something like that could be complicated and expensive. He didn't want to hire someone to help. You make a hiring platform so, instead of doing that, Chris scour the web. Looking for an out of the box solution, a pre made kind of software that he could simply purchase, as is that you can find these for a lot of different sites. They allow you to pay to effectively create a clone of an existing sites, functions using your own branding. This is especially popular for things like forums. It's a lot of work to your custom programme, your own forum, but a lot of people have already done that. So you can just go and purchase this little templates.

At your branding and go from there, so after researching Chris found a suitable solution that he could try for two hundred and ninety nine dollars a month. Now, in some ways, three bucks a month isn't cheap, but compared to building accustomed solution it was it came with a built in content management system, so he'd be able to add new pages and right blog posts. The programme also integrated with stripe a popular payment processor that man he'd be able to start collecting money right away after lunch. Best of all was that he was able to star and configure it himself. The next step was to generate interest in that light at him on linked in the world's most popular website for business. Networking from his lengthy career and hr. Chris already had several thousand linked in connections, connections or similar to friends on Facebook and for the next few weeks he made a concerted effort to continue. Adding people who listed themselves is hr consultants. At the same time, he identified a dozen people he thought would be

It said Anne contacted them directly, you let them know his new service would be a place that had regular gigs for freelance hr consultants and almost immediately someone committed to a yearly subscription for eighty nine dollars. That's when Chris knew he was onto. You he even officially launched, and yet someone still believe in the concept so much that they were willing to put real money down.

It. Motivated him to work faster, he finished a working version of the site and one that was done made use of his vast linked in network. By now he had six thousand connections. He knew he could leverage. In addition, he also join several Facebook groups or the community seems highly engaged. Specifically. He looked for groups where people shared careers, advice and job fleets, with both his linked in Facebook strategies Ready Chris turned both taps on at once. The officially launched what he now called h: our lancers dot com in January, twenty twenty he posted about it to all of his connections and mentioned it in those groups. He was part of so what happened

While in the first thirty days, HR lancers received five thousand website visitors and hundreds of eight, our experts who signed up to the service, most of them on the free version that he offered, but some for the paid service which offered featured placement on posts, companies were posting, gigs and freelancers we're apply. Meanwhile, Chris began to take in his first revenant over the next few months to big things: Chris, continue to market the site and the corona virus pandemic impacted his growth plans freelancers, kept joining, but not as quickly as we hoped, even so. His revenue minute

surpass five hundred dollars a month within the first few months of operation. Eighty percent of that can be a subscriptions freelancers and the remaining twenty percent from individual job postings from employers. The corona virus slowdown, isn't stopping Chris he's continuing to network and attract more interest in the site. It's nowhere near a full time job. Yet so we still relies heavily on his own freelancing to make a living, but he's helping one day, HR, lancers dot com will turn into the big promotion. He always wanted and aided securing financial future growth of work is the largest freelance marketplace, and world curly has twelve million registered freelancers and five million registered employers. So no shortage of projects and people there but, as I mentioned briefly, my story, it's cues towards tech related projects, which means there can be

room for others to stand out in different categories or perhaps to start their own thing the way. Christa. Now it will be an uphill battle to go against something like upward, but Chris does have that background. He's hustling he's got that big network and such and people are posted. So you never know now my thought from looking at the website to quick things. The website could benefit from some attention to make it look a bit more professional might be worth it. Investment in graphic design- I just because you do want- is to look really guided and feel like something bigger than it is currently and also we ve got some ads on a few places on the site, which I dont quite understand. Because for something like this, you want visitors to stay on the site. You want them to browse the listings. You don't want a necessarily Send them somewhere else, even though you know you might ultimately make a commission for selling something on that external link. So just my thought about that, like just build up the site, focus on the site, do everything you can to provide a great experience for users

some. How play applicant send some people to check it out its h, our lancers dot com. Of course, I'm in a link that up on the show, no stage inspiration is, is but inspiration with action is better notes. Page is cited in school dot, com, slash, twelve, ninety one. Thank you so much for listening to come back tomorrow. Are you subscribe to? My name is critical about this. Is scientists. From the onward projects.