Ep. 65 – Friends To Business Partners with Freeeup CMO, Connor Gillivan

Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold

Second in Command with Cameron Herold

Business, Management, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 224 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Sometimes, having a business partner is a pain, but once you’ve learned how to complement each other’s strengths and weaknesses, it becomes the perfect formula for growth. Our guest today is Connor Gillivan, the Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of FreeeUp. As an eCommerce expert and outsourcing guru, Connor is passionate about building profitable businesses […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Second in Command Podcast, produced by the C.O. Alliance and brought to
0:11.8	its founder Cameron Herald.
0:14.0	In the second-in-command podcast, we talked to top COOs who share the insights, strategies,
0:20.0	and tactics that made them the chief behind the chief. And now here's your host
0:24.8	Cameron Harold.
0:29.8	Connor Gillivan is the CMO of FreeUp.com.
0:33.4	As an e-commerce expert in outsourcing guru,
0:35.5	Connor is passionate about building profitable businesses
0:38.3	that address specific customer needs
0:40.1	within the e-commerce world.
0:41.8	He started out in his college dorm room and went on to
0:44.0	sell over 30 million dollars online having worked with over a thousand suppliers
0:48.2	and managed over 500,000 products. He's now a published author and the owner of Connor Gillivan.com
0:54.3	currently lives in Denver Colorado. So Connor, welcome to the Second in command
0:58.1	podcast. How's it going? Thanks for having me. You're welcome. So why don't you
1:02.0	walk me through what you guys do and how it all works just everybody
1:04.9	actually understands and then we'll kind of get the story of how you've scaled it?
1:08.2	Yeah, of course. So Free Up is a competitor to other freelance marketplaces out there like Upwork and Fiver and Freelancer, but we do things a little bit differently.
1:20.0	We spent years hiring from platforms like those and we wanted to create a simpler way for both business owners and freelancers.
1:29.0	So the core things that make free Up different in connecting freelancers and business owners is the first.
1:39.0	We actually pre-Vet every single freelancer that wants to join the Free Up network and we only allow the top
1:46.0	1% in.
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