Ian started out his journey as head of a non profit, passion based gaming related organization, located in South Africa The idea was to build a Esports company.. But as time progressed Ian realized that without financial incentive, it was very difficult to keep people around, and this was also his first introduction to leadership After rebuilding the team twice, he decided to explore other avenues of entrepreneurship and revenue streams.. This decision of his originated from a lack of control in his life You see Ian had grown up privileged to a certain extent, and therefore never had to worry about money This was seen as fantastic at first, but as time progressed and he got older, he found himself wanting a sense of autonomy he could only get with his own money Pay for his own things, buy his own software, buy his own food etc. Sure, there was pocket money, but combined with poor financial skills, and living in isolation in his family estate, that didn’t make him feel like it was ...
The only true test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life - Naval Ravikant DISCLAIMER: I talk about X or twitter a lot in this article, but these principles and methods work whether you’re on linkedin, X, Substack, or Instagram ( and most other platforms ) Human beings buy things because they have problems, no matter where those solutions are, if the person offering the solution speaks from a place of authority and credibility, they are likely to invest Let’s begin by first getting this out of the way.. Your worth is NOT = to what a company is paying you for solving the same problem On upwork the average hourly rate is $20 That means if you take 3 hours to write a sales page that increases conversion rate from 2.5% to 5%, you get paid $60 But the people who hired you just doubled their monthly income from the landing page If the landing page was making $4000/mo, it now makes $8000/mo Your pay? $60 And that’s exactly why you can’t treat upwork, or clie...