E151 – Recruiting and Hiring the Top 1% of Freelancers (Nathan Hirsch, FreeUp.com)

In today’s episode, let’s listen again to Joe’s conversation with Nathan Hirsch, the co-founder of FreeUp - a solution platform to finding & hiring pre-vetted freelancers online, only allowing the top 1% into the network out of hundreds of freelancer applicants every week.

 

Nathan talks about how he co-founded a solution platform that caters to businesses in need of skilled freelancers to help business owners with website design and development, graphic design, sales and marketing, social media, and web content. He also shares how referrals reign in new clients, screening the best freelancers, and the challenges of remote work.

 

Episode Resources:

FreeUp  FreeUp is on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter Outsourcing Masters Facebook Group Nathan Hirsch is on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram Leave an Apple podcast review or binge-watch past episodes Send questions to [email protected] for the next Q&A pod Visit the WPMRR website

 

What to Listen For:

00:00 Intro 00:53 Welcome to the pod, Nathan! 02:11 Started with selling books 03:30 At 20 years old, Nathan started his e-commerce business 05:21 Recruitment through referrals brought in more clients 06:34 Freelancers aren’t exclusive with Freeup 10:03 Is the Top 1% the basis for hiring freelancers? 14:00 Big mistakes from people who fail to hire the right freelancers 17:11 Client contracts can go as an Hourly or Fixed Price project 20:50 Finding a technical co-founder if you aren’t a technical person 24:26 To be a good business partner you can never say, “I told you so.”  27:24 FreeUp is a platform for remote work  30:17 How to find the best remote workers 33:00 Find Nathan online!