Sugandha Nagariya was hired as an assistant to manage the LinkedIn profile and personal emails of the founder-CEO of a large Indian company for USD 5 per hour, 10 hours per week.

She then secured a client from Italy, who needed to write blogs on various topics, ranging from finance to legal matters like divorce.

Despite juggling her studies and other freelance projects, she worked 2-3 hours daily for the client and has earned USD 5,300 in the past 1.5 years.

Here is her Upwork profile: https://bit.ly/446jKpB


Thanks to her dedication and hard work, Sugandha has become a top-rated freelancer on Upwork with a total earning of over USD 5,700 on the platform alone. She recently landed another client based in Fairfax, USA, and will be paid USD 12 per hour.

You can do it too.

Don’t forget to join us in the bootcamp today.

Here is your Joining Link :
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3117009833629/WN_ZYpNrVL-R5q01LYXcuZbTA

Webinar ID: 878 8016 9646

Webinar Passcode: 845359

Make sure you login 10 mins before 3 PM, seats can max out anytime.

Here are some free giveaways that we promised: 🎉🎉

👉🏻 How to Design Irresistible Landing Pages with AI

👉🏻 How to Offer Sales Funnel and Marketing Services & Create Landing Pages Using AI

👉🏻 How to sharpen your writing and write narratives and stories like Salman Rushdie or non-fiction prose like Malcolm Gladwell

👉🏻 How to get yourself on top podcasts

👉🏻 How to get invited to deliver a TEDx talk

👉🏻 How to edit a video in 10 minutes even if you never have done this before – something that a human professional takes at least an hour

👉🏻 How to design like a professional designer using AI

Use these to increase your skills and get ready for the bootcamp.

We are organising a free bootcamp on "Turbocharge your Career: Start a consulting business or startup and work with US Clients using AI tools", December 9th, 10th from 3 pm - 6 pm & December 12th, 6.00pm - 9.00pm.

Register now if haven't already

Registration Link: https://skillarbitra.ge/work-with-us-clients-using-ai-tools?p_source=tele_warm

Why AI should be your best friend when you start your own business

The economy of next decade will be defined by 4 forces:

👉🏻 Startups

👉🏻 Software

👉🏻 Crumbling of the final barriers of globalisation, accelerated by the global pandemic - ie, remote work

👉🏻 How humans use AI (no need to learn coding, but how to use AI to grow businesses.)

You probably don’t understand how Google or algorithms work, but that does not stop you from benefiting from Google or Zoom or any other software. You will use AI in the same way; do not believe anyone who says you need to learn coding to benefit from AI.

Again, you do not have to know how the algorithms of artificial intelligence work to use AI tools and surge ahead in your career, just like your AC is cooling your room but you don’t know what electronic circuits are inside it or what semiconductor chips have been used in your smartphone.

So do not commit the blunder of disqualifying yourself from using AI tools thinking “I am not tech friendly and can’t code”. We will discuss these trends - and you will understand how you can use them to your advantage.

Who are the most progressive and aggressive employers today on a fast-growth trajectory, who need expertise and consulting services to grow faster and stay on the cutting edge? Who is hiring people in large numbers even during a global recession?

Undoubtedly, it is startups.

The digital and tech part of the global economy is growing really fast all over the world - AI, blockchain/crypto, Web3, digital media, SaaS, fintech, e-commerce, edtech, healthcare, biotech, online gaming, OTT platforms, agritech, insurance are all booming like never before.

Many of these industries are growing at a breakneck speed:

99% of businesses in any of the developed countries are small businesses and startups, which need to optimise their costs and cannot access international remote workers/consultants affordably.

There are 33.2 million small businesses as per the US Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy, 1.2 million in Canada and 5.5 million in the UK.

Irrespective of sector, the problems they face are common – mostly around sales, marketing, distribution, delivery, ops, automation, finance, building high-powered teams etc.

These fast-growing startups need cost-effective offshore workers and services, expertise and advice, to survive, compete and succeed against large corporations which already have access to BPOs that allow them to cut costs massively.

However, these businesses do not have access to high-quality remote workers and have no clue how they can effectively offshore their work to remote workers.

This is where you come in.

What is the part of their business that you can help to either automate or offshore? Is it product development? If you are an engineer, writer, video editor, architect, QA tester etc, this is a great area for you.

Is it marketing? Then you better have skills around social media, blogging, newsletter writing, ghost-writing, running ads, lead generation, producing videos, email campaigns etc.

Is it sales or ops? I hope you can take leads and convert them into paying customers through meetings, calls, emails or whatever it takes.

Other functions like HR, recruitment, law, finance, bookkeeping, tax or compliances? If you are providing such services to Indian clients, you have to learn relevant local skills for the US or whichever market you target, but you should be able to do that in 6 months!

Of course, we recommend that you use your existing skills, and definitely first target similar companies as you are catering to or working for in India, but who are located in the US or UK so that you can benefit from the cost arbitrage.

Need a roadmap on how to do this❓

We can help you with that. Simply attend our free bootcamp on "Turbocharge your Career: Start a consulting business or startup and work with US Clients using AI tools", December 9th, 10th from 12 pm - 3 pm & December 12th, 6.00pm - 9.00pm.

Register now if haven't already

Registration Link: https://skillarbitra.ge/work-with-us-clients-using-ai-tools?p_source=tele_warm

See you at the bootcamp!

Regards,
Ramanuj Mukherjee
CEO, SkillArbitrage

I wasted my time, why should you?

Many of you may recall a video that went viral In June this year – of a senior executive with a private bank, screaming abuse at his teammates and humiliating them in front of their colleagues on a video call.

While the video triggered some of the worst memories of my life as a salaried employee of India Inc, it also reminded me exactly why I decided to stop looking for a job and become a freelancer in 2020.

👉🏻 Toxic bosses who feel threatened by more competent junior colleagues

👉🏻 Daily insecurities

👉🏻 Constant humiliation

👉🏻 Zero growth opportunities even after a decade of dedicated service No respect for experience or integrity

Can you relate to any of this?

These were some of the major reasons I decided enough was enough when, at the height of the Covid lockdown, some of my colleagues and I lost our jobs overnight, apparently because of ‘cost cutting’, which we later found out was a lie.

Our reporting manager merely wanted to use Covid as an excuse to get rid of some of us.

The experience taught me how unstable and insecure even the most apparently secure job could be.

And how I was at the mercy of a few people who could decide my fate from a distance, without taking my hard work, loyalty, or expertise into account.

So I decided to be my own boss. Even though I was a single parent, and had no previous experience of freelancing.

I knew I was good at what I did, and I knew I could do it far better without someone constantly breathing down my neck.

So I launched my career as a freelance writer and consultant.