Skill Arbitrage - Remote Work for Women
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Would you like to know more about the roles that are most in-demand?

It does not matter if you do not have a lot of prior expertise in those areas - with the help of AI you can secure opportunities in about 3-6 months of training.

You just have to follow a step-by-step roadmap.

We will provide the roadmap, show how to find clients, give examples of how to build your track record and even demo some live AI skills that you can use to perform this work in a free 3-day bootcamp this weekend.

It is free, live and online, but no recordings will be available.

You will also have an opportunity to interact with several Skill Arbitrage learners who have actually achieved these results if you attend the bootcamp.

See you in the bootcamp, on ‘Remote work revolution for women - How to land AI driven international remote jobs’ from 18-20 November, 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM.

Register Now, if you haven't already: https://skillarbitra.ge/remote-work-revolution-for-women?p_source=tele_warm
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How a mother of an 8-year old girl in Kolkata got INR 50K remote job with a UK startup

Munmun Kundu lives in Kolkata with her family and has 12 years’ experience working in a business development role, but lost her job in July 2022 as her employer wrapped up India operations.

She could work at the global back office in Chennai, but it was not possible for her to shift as she had her husband and daughter in Kolkata.

She searched for 1 year, and obtained two opportunities in Kolkata, but they were paying very little in comparison to her previous job, and demanded a 6-day commitment to work from the office.

She was losing her confidence.

After all, many women like her are compelled to sacrifice their careers to raise a family.

Munmun tried to pursue some additional courses but did not get any opportunities as training programs in the market are theoretical and do not offer placement assistance.

Unfortunately, knowledge alone does not help in securing opportunities - one has to learn skills, then develop a track record and build outreach.

Munmun hadn’t yet done that.

After 1 year of trying various things, Munmun started pursuing our course in August 2023.

She started building her track record and doing outreach from the first month itself.
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She built her Upwork profile with assistance from our team. She identified her niche to be lead generation, email marketing and virtual assistant.

Our team helped her through the process.

Many new freelancers do not add work samples on their Upwork profile, which is a major reason for not securing opportunities.

Munmun prepared some work samples based on her past work experience and assignments from our courses.

Our team pushed her to prepare a short video introduction for her Upwork profile - this really enables foreign clients to trust freelancers from another country more easily.

Then, Munmun started writing proposals.
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In one of her course assignments, Munmun was expected to write 5 proposals, and use AI in the process. The prompts were taught in the class.

She sent about 6-7 proposals, and got her first client in the second month itself - this is an AI startup based in the UK which has seed funding.

Although she had applied for the project on Upwork, she also reached the CEO of the company directly on LinkedIn.

Interesting way to follow-up!

The CEO was impressed and he recommended his team to offer her an interview.

Munmun attended the interview and cracked the job.

She works as a VA and a sales administrator.

Although she was offered a full-time 40 hours/week commitment, she could only commit for more than 20 hrs/week - which her client gladly accepted.

Given the massive cost advantage a client has in working from a resource in India or a developing country, foreign clients do not usually mind such considerations as long as you can deliver value.

As of today, Munmun works for only 3-4 hours per day, and earns USD 9 per hour, which translates into INR 50-60K per month by working from home!

Every 3 months her terms will be considered for revision and a possible 5% hike.

She is also exploring expansion of her role.
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The startup founder has shared his plans to raise a follow-on investment round, and work is going to expand soon!

After just one month of receiving her first project, her Upwork profile is showing massive traction.

She receives at least 1 invitation from a client on Upwork without even having to pitch!

She is recognised as a rising talent on Upwork.
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She is currently not accepting new clients as she has her hands full with her existing project.

With remote work, she is able to manage her family commitments very well .

Would you also like to reach a position where you can work from home for international clients and earn a side income?

Maybe it is hard to find well-paying jobs where you live, or you cannot commute to an office, or you can only work part-time.

These limitations do not need to stop you from getting opportunities.

What can you do?
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International remote work is the answer.

Anyone can start earning from remote work once you learn skills, build a public track record, and do outreach.

Do you want to find out how you can get started?

Make sure that you Join our FREE, 3-day, live online bootcamp next weekend - where we will give you the plan, show you how to find high-potential international clients (like the ones Munmun reached out to) and teach you several skills for free.

We will also show you how to use AI to pitch and deliver 10x better results than your peers. Make sure that you set an alarm to attend, as this bootcamp is live only and no recordings or presentations will be available.
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Lessons from 3 year old kid’s mother who earned USD 1000 from remote work in under 4 months working 2-3 hrs/day

Aarti Shinde has a 3 year old son and lives in Mumbai with her family. She worked in marketing and client servicing for 7 years, but then had to take a career break of 6 years in 2017 to devote time to her family.

In August 2023, she started learning some skills to perform remote work, and started pitching to clients simultaneously.
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Within a month of starting her course, she got her first project from a US business owner. She had to conduct some online research and find suitable vendors - simple work that can be done on the internet.

She earned a mere USD 10 for that project - but the client left her a glowing testimonial on Upwork.

She also secured repeat assignments from that client later.

This helped her to secure her second assignment. Her second client is from Australia, and gave her some research, document compilation and presentation creation work for a product launch.

She earned USD 240 in 2 weeks from this assignment by working on a part-time basis.

Like the US client, the Australian client also gave her repeat work!
Securing projects can take time initially, but work quickly flows in as you build your track record and have testimonials on your profile.

However, during this phase, you cannot stop sending proposals, or get bogged down by rejections or lack of response.

Aarti has sent over 100 proposals till date.

She has worked on 12 projects with about 7-8 clients now, and earned around over 900 dollars in 3 months, and is on the way to reaching her first 1000 dollars.

Once a foreign client realises that he/she can trust you, you can get many more assignments and introductions to new clients.

Why?
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It is much more expensive for foreign early stage startup founders, SME owners and professionals to hire equivalent resources in their home country, and you have a massive cost advantage if you are working from India or another developing country.

For anyone who is considering remote work, you do not have to be limited by the kind of work that you performed in your job earlier.

Like Aarti, most of our learners who perform remote work do work that is very different from the tasks that they performed in their full-time jobs.

Typically, most of these remote work assignments fall in 3 critical domains - virtual assistant, startup generalist and in content-creation related roles.

Depending on your interest, you can select one of these roles and develop initial skills in a matter of 2-3 months, and then stack up more additional skills over time so that you can continue to add more value to your clients.
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The good news is that in 2023 the AI revolution has made it much easier for us to pick up and learn high-demand skill sets, pitch more effectively and deliver superior quality work, without having decades of functional expertise in one area.

Of course, it still takes effort on our side - AI cannot divine and intuitively understand what we expect it to do.

But the results are incredible once we put in the effort.

It is also not a problem if you just have 3-4 hours per day available for work - remote work is very flexible and it is possible to find assignments that suit your availability.
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For example, Aarti works only for 2-3 hours per day.

Here is her Upwork profile.
Does Aarti’s story inspire you?

Would you like to jump on the remote work bandwagon as well and work on the side?

Make sure that you attend our free 3-day bootcamp this weekend.

It will be online, so you can attend from anywhere (even from your phone), but it is live only. No recordings will be available.

Set up an alarm on your calendar so that you do not miss it.
The possibilities are endless for women powered by AI

You can learn how to maximise the benefits of AI in your career instead of falling for the foolish narrative that AI will take away all our jobs.

Those who can use AI will emerge as what I call turbo generalists, super professionals who can create a range of outputs from blog posts to videos to artwork to fiction to sales manuals, simply by maximising AI!

AI does not work itself. Someone has to get the outcome they desire from this very powerful tool.
In the right hands, it is immensely powerful.

How about your hands?

Do you want to be really world class at using AI to produce business results?

Comment ‘Show Achievers’ to see women like you who are already getting great results doing such work.

Can you imagine the demand for such professionals worldwide & how valuable you can become to any busines

You can basically use this new found power to earn a lot of money.

Want to know how

This is what we aim to teach you at our FREE bootcamp TODAY, 10.30 AM. Don’t forget to join.
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AI magically turns you into a world class professional

All you need is an idea – and AI will implement it for you if you can give it the correct inputs.

This is not a question of learning new technology, it is about making the best use of available tech. Think about it, did you learn tech in order to use Google search?

But even today, there are people who are better than others at getting exactly what they want out of a Google search.

Just think of AI as Google search x 1000!

Which is why we want to teach you how to get the best out of AI, in order to make you a highly preferred candidate for international remote work.

Remember, AI is to be used, not feared!
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Here is a Mother of a special needs child got USD 10K contract from a Philippines-based AI startup.

Gayatri Vathsan had about 15 years of work experience in multiple MNCs, mostly as an instructional designer and a writer, when she took a career break in 2014 for personal reasons, leaving behind a pay package of 12-13 LPA.

She planned to get back to work around 2015-2016, but couldn’t do that as she has a special needs’ child, and had only about 3-4 hrs per day of free time available for work.

In August 2023, she started pursuing a remote work course from Skill Arbitrage so that she could pursue remote work on a part-time basis.
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She took assistance from our team to build her Upwork profile, writing outreach messages to her clients, posting actively on LinkedIn and also started learning some skills around generative AI.

In 1 month, she received an invite for a job on her Upwork profile from a Philippines-based AI company from Scale AI.

The client offered her an initial trial project, which she performed successfully and then bagged *an annual project of USD 10K!*

Her role involves training an AI model that her client is developing for a Big Tech company. It does not require any technical knowledge of coding, science or mathematics.

She has to work only for 2 hours per day and can take care of her family for the remaining time.
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Here are fewmore of our fearless female students:
Debarpita Pande, is a recent graduate and an active freelancer. She started freelancing last year.

After creating her profile within 4 days she was able to grab two back-to-back projects on Upwork which paid her a total of USD 230.

She worked on editing videos and writing an EBook about relocation to Singapore.

She worked on more than 8 contracts for international clients after that where she worked on various tech contracts.

She has earned more than USD 300 in various projects like translations, video, and voice so far, with an earning of above USD 500 by freelancing alone.