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The James Altucher Show

Ep. 114 - Matt Barrie of Freelancer.com: How to Get Paid Doing What You Love

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2015

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

What are you best at? Whatever it is, you should do it more often and get paid for it, too. Do you know the ultimate site to choose yourself (besides jamesaltucher.com)? It's Freelancer.com. It's "a global market for services" and "the eBay for jobs." My guest today, Matt Barrie, is the genius who founded it. This site changed my life. And in today's interview, you'll hear how I used the site to build a business and sell it for millions of dollars eight months later. I've interviewed hundreds of successful people. Matt, on the other hand, watches people become overnight successes in real time. He is an encyclopedia of success stories. You will feel motivated and empowered after hearing these extreme entrepreneur success stories. Have you heard of giantflamingo.com? This guy outsourced manufacturing on Freelancer.com and created an entire pool toy empire. Now, he's a multimillionaire. You'll hear his full story and realize you have the same potential. If starting a business isn't for you, that's OK. You can still make money from the site. "Everyone on the site is there to make money," Matt says. Here's what you have to do: use the site to look up projects. Projects can supplement your income or even replace it. This way you'll get paid to do what you're good at all the time. Let me know what you find. I love to hear stories about how you choose yourself. In This Episode You Will Learn:         *How to make money using Freelancer.com         *How to use Freelancer.com to start and build a business         *How to use Freelancer.com to get projects so you can quit your job         *How Matt Barrie came up with the idea of an "eBay for jobs" Plus much more... Links and Resources Mentioned In The Show: I've said it before and I'll say it again: Freelancer.com A collection of essays by Matt Barrie Giantflamigo.com Singularity University   Thanks so much for listening! ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:06.4

This is the James Altitor show on the Stansbury Radio Network.

0:17.8

I have one of my heroes on the podcast with me today, Matt Barry.

0:22.9

Welcome to the show.

0:23.9

Thank you for having me.

0:25.5

Matt, I don't think you even realize why you're one of my heroes.

0:27.8

So for, hey, I just want to explain to the audience, you're the founder and CEO of Freelancer.com.

0:34.6

And in 2006, one of the companies that you have since acquired, I outsourced a development

0:43.6

of a website for just a few thousand dollars, which I ended up selling for a huge amount,

0:50.2

just eight months later.

0:51.6

So I just love the whole impact that Freelancer.com is having on the entrepreneurial economy.

0:59.9

That's phenomenal.

1:00.9

I mean, that's another success story for you.

1:05.5

That's great.

1:06.5

I mean, what's really exciting about running a marketplace like ours, so the listeners

1:10.5

that are out there, I mean, basically we're eBay for jobs.

1:13.2

We have 15 million users from around the world.

1:15.3

In fact, we just get that milestone two weeks ago, who have posted 7.5 million jobs.

1:21.2

And the sorts of jobs that can be done on our sites is really anything with the computer.

1:25.0

So jobs like website design, James, James and a website built, for example, graphic design,

1:30.8

translation, copywriting and so forth about, you know, about five or six years ago, we had

1:35.0

about 20 different categories of jobs.

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