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Signup/Affiliate Program We strongly encourage hosts to create a FreeeUp account here: https://timeclock.freeeup.com/public/signup    You get $0.50 for every hour billed to anyone that comes to us from you or your show forever!   Hiring Credit just for You! I'm confident that we can help you hire top-level freelancers for your various business needs. Once you sign up I will apply for a $50 credit on your account.  We would love your feedback on the platform   Links for Show Notes FreeeUp.com Skill Sets Rates for FreeeUp How FreeeUp Works Infographic Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies   Biography Nathan Hirsch is a 28 year old serial entrepreneur who is an expert in hiring online and building eCommerce businesses. He co-founded his first eCommerce company out of his dorm room in 2009 drop shipping products on Amazon.com and built it to sell over $25 million worth of product over 5 years. While scaling, Nathan discovered the power of outsourcing and ended up building a remote army of freelancers.    In 2015, Nathan co-founded and became the CEO of FreeeUp, an online hiring marketplace that allows business owners fast access to a hand-picked network of top talent freelancers in eCommerce, digital marketing, web development, and much more who have already been vetted for skill, attitude, and communication. FreeeUp interviews hundreds of freelancers each week and only allows the top 1% of applicants into the network. The company has been growing at rapid paces (500%+ YoY) and has quickly become a top destination to hire online for over 3,000 businesses around the world.    Nathan has built his personal brand to be synonymous with online hiring and entrepreneurship through 75+ guest appearances on top podcasts: Entrepreneur on Fire with John Lee Dumas, Eventual Millionaire, and more. Nathan has also become a regular speaker at industry conferences where he teaches other business owners how to hire freelancers and gain back more time in their growing businesses.  

Connor Gillivan is the co-founder of FreeeUp.com. He has built two companies to over $10 million in yearly sales within the eCommerce industry, is a leading voice for entrepreneurship and digital marketing, and is the author of Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies. Connor started his first eCommerce business, Portlight, drop shipping on the Amazon Marketplace when he was 20 years old and still in college. Together with his co-founders he built a 60 person team located all over the world, partnered with over 1,000 US suppliers, and had total sales of more than $25 million of total. He started his second business, FreeeUp, in 2015 when he and his business partner became frustrated with their online hiring experiences.  They built a 60 person team with freelancers from all over the world, but it took years and endless amounts of turnover to arrive at that team. Just over 3 years into the business FreeeUp has grown their user base to over 15,000 clients around the world. In this episode Connor we dig deep into his journey. Connor Credits his fast start in entrepreneurship to some of the people that surrounded him when he was growing up Shares his thoughts on the importance of exposing children to the idea that entrepreneurship can be a viable career option Talks about the things he learned working in South Africa during his time in College Tells us how 2 College Sophomores built a business that sold more than $25 million on Amazon Explains how frustrations in scaling his first company led to the creation of FreeUp Offers tips for anyone that wants to be a freelancer And so much more. You can contact Connor at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/connorgillivan/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/connorgillivan/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/connorgillivan/ Personal blog: http://connorgillivan.com/ FreeeUp: https://freeeup.com/ My calendar: calendly.com/connor-gillivan My email: connor@freeeup.com Please do not hesitate to reach out to me. I’d love to hear your thoughts, comments, and stories, or just make a connection. Email tim@screwthenaysayers.com Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/stnwithtimalison/ Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/screwthenaysayers/ LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-alison/ Screw The Naysayers- www.screwthenaysayers.com

Connor Gillivan started his first business when in college in E-commerce and has been an entrepreneur ever since, now he is the co-founder of an outsourcing business called Freeup that provides remote workers who are vetted and they can help you you scale your business. He is also the author of 50 ways to bootstrap million dollar companies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies Connor Gillivan started his first business when in college in E-commerce and has been an entrepreneur ever since, now he is the co-founder of an outsourcing business called Freeup that provides remote workers who are vetted and they can help you you scale your business. He is also the author of 50 ways to bootstrap million dollar companies. Connor Gillivan- Author of 50 Ways to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies I asked Connor these questions: How do people stay focused in the early stages of a startup? The first 6 months is key to focus, make sure you have a good plan of where you are headed and what you want to achieve, having a short term vision is key. He has a 1 year plan himself and he breaks it down into quarters. On a daily and weekly basis he breaks this down into different projects and keeps him focused on the end goal for the end of the year. What are your top ways to get traffic? The biggest is actually talking with other podcast hosts and share information with their audiences has been huge. Word of mouth and their referral program has been huge and giving their top customers the best experience possible is key and they have to be happy. The referral program incentivizes them to share their experience with others, this brings in a lot of traffic every day and every month. These keep the costs down VS paid traffic, there is a time that is right for paid traffic but for someone who is bootstrapping probably not the best move. Do you think social media is a time suck or another way to get traffic? It can become a time suck if you don’t have the right strategies, but he has seen it to be a great way to bring traffic to his website and for email signups etc. Getting involved in different Facebook groups has worked really well for his niche and sharing relevant content is a great way to bring people to your site. We discussed how overwhelmed people are in their jobs these days. It all depends on your business and what actually works, putting consistent content out there that adds value to them is important. We both shared some great tips with repurposing content here and explained that if you try to be on every platform you won’t get the results. What is the one crucial thing start-up founders should do? Biggest things that Connor has found divvying up responsibilities and roles is crucial to avoid you stepping on toes and inefficiency. Figuring out these individually is a great way to set you on the same path. Do you think it is important to create a clearly defined target market or can you adjust as you go? Having multiple defined markets when getting started is key, when started Freeup they knew the three products they had. They chose different niches, four or five to start and tried to reachout and create customers from them, they learned a lot about who the most loyal customers were and work out who the best fit is for the services. Starting completely broad leads to the most inefficiency and focusing on the niches is key. What did the most success in your business come from? Freeup is split into two things, the referral program has been a source of rapid growth, giving their customers an incentive to share with friends. Affiliate or referral programs are a great way to grow and create a reward for people to promote you is a great way to create success. The reason why is crucial and using freelancers to build your company is key, a common trait is to hire loads of people and actually this doesn’t work, using the power of delegation is a great way to grow your business and building systems and processes are crucial to bringing in the right people to take care of the operations so they can work on growing the business. This creates the tangible value for your business to grow and you can sell it. How would you scale a boot strap million dollar company from a start-up if you had to start again with nothing ? Figure out what your core product or service is and know what yo...

Connor Gillivan is the author of Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies. He started his first business, Portlight, when he was 20 out of his college dorm room drop shipping products on Amazon and scaled it to sell over $20 million of product in its first 4 years. Connor started FreeeUp.com in late 2015 to connect the top 1% of freelancers online with business owners. It now serves over 2,500 businesses worldwide. Today, he is the CMO of FreeeUp driving growth for the company through digital marketing strategies and continues to run Portlight as its CEO. In this episode of Futureproof, Connor and Kelly discuss the importance of getting the right people in your business. Hear how you identify and secure the top 1% and why recruitment processes matter if you want the best people. Find out more and connect with Connor on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/connorgillivan/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/connorgillivan/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/connorgillivan/ Personal blog: http://connorgillivan.com/ FreeeUp: https://freeeup.com/ My calendar: calendly.com/connor-gillivan My email: connor@freeeup.com

Interview with Master of Freelance, the CEO of Freeeup Nathan Hirsch The Power Of Outsourcing To Scale Your Business with Nathan Hirsch and Quin Amorim Nathan Hirsch is a 28 year old serial entrepreneur who is an expert in hiring online and building eCommerce businesses. He co-founded his first eCommerce company out of his dorm room in 2009 drop shipping products on Amazon.com and built it to sell over $25 million worth of product over 5 years. While scaling, Nathan discovered the power of outsourcing and ended up building a remote army of freelancers. In 2015, Nathan co-founded and became the CEO of FreeeUp, an online hiring marketplace that allows business owners fast access to a hand-picked network of top talent freelancers in eCommerce, digital marketing, web development, and much more who have already been vetted for skill, attitude, and communication. FreeeUp interviews hundreds of freelancers each week and only allows the top 1% of applicants into the network. The company has been growing at rapid paces (500%+ YoY) and has quickly become a top destination to hire online for over 3,000 businesses around the world. Nathan has built his personal brand to be synonymous with online hiring and entrepreneurship through 75+ guest appearances on top podcasts: Entrepreneur on Fire with John Lee Dumas, Eventual Millionaire, and handfuls more. Nathan has also become a regular speaker at industry conferences where he teaches other business owners how to hire freelancers and gain back more time in their growing businesses.   Links: FreeeUp.com Skill Sets Rates for FreeeUp Video testimonial on FreeeUp from Ben Cummings How FreeeUp Works Infographic Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies

Connor Gillivan, CMO of FreeeUp.com, the company he founded to connect the top 1% of freelancers online with business owners. shares the secrets to grow your business with podcast appearances. Connor's Journey Connor  talks about how his upbringing made it possible for him to become an entrepreneur, and how his business needs prompted him to start his current company, Freeeup.com. Connecting with Podcasters to Grow Your Business Connor has gained new clients, customers, and freelancers through his interviews on podcasts. During our conversation, he shares: The key success factors for a successful podcast pitch How to select the right podcasts to be on The process to reach out to podcasters How to become a "dream guest" and nurture your connections with podcasters Niche Influencers to Grow Your Business Podcast interviews are not the only way Connor has leveraged connections with influencers to grow his business. During our conversation, Connor explains how business coaches, who are niche influencers in his industry, have helped him share his message with a targeted audience. What's Next for Connor Connor and his partner are excited about the new growth opportunities for Freeeup.com.  They plan to expand outside of e-commerce and serve service businesses such as coaches, consultants, law firms, etc. Resources Shared GIFT: CLORIS25 - $25 coupon to try out FreeeUp.com TOOL: Trello.com for task management Book:  Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos More About Connor Gillivan Connor Gillivan is the CMO of FreeeUp.com, the company he founded to connect the top 1% of freelancers online with business owners. Overall, Connor has sold over $30 million online, and has hired hundreds of freelancers to build his companies. The author of Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies, he’s the owner of ConnorGillivan.com, where you can connect with him. You can also connect with him via email at connor(at)freeeup.com   

Want to get more done in less time? The answer is outsourcing. In this episode, Jonathan sits down with Connor Gillivan. Connor is the author of Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies. He started his first business on Amazon and scaled it to sell over $20 million of product in its first 4 years. In 2015, he launched FreeeUp.com in order to help connect the top 1% of freelancers online with business owners. Today his company serves over 2,500 businesses worldwide. Links mentioned: http://freeeup.com

Welcome to Yes You Can Podcast! With Virginia Phillips Today’s episode, we have Connor Gillivan. Connor has built and runs two million-dollar companies. He has started an outsourcing platform that helped over 5,000 business owners and freelancers grow their operations. He is also the author of the book, “Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies” where he reveals the lessons that he and his business partner have learned from the many ups and downs experiences as entrepreneurs. In this episode, Connor joins us to share how he started his entrepreneurial career in his dorm room and scaled his business to over million dollars in yearly sales through dropshipping. He will give tips and ideas to figuring the best way to get sales on the Amazon marketplace. He will also share how he and his business partner come up with an outsourcing solution, how it is different from other outsourcing platforms, and how it can help businesses and freelancers. If you want to scale your business through outsourcing, this episode is for you! Tune in next week for another episode and powerhouse guest to get more insider tips! Follow us Facebook Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/YesYouCanPodcast/ Facebook AOEE: https://www.facebook.com/AOEETheAcademyofEntrepreneurialExcellence Twitter: https://twitter.com/dreamtoprofit LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/virginiaphillipsco/ Please subscribe and let us know what you think of the show by providing a rating or review. Apple Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/yes-you-can-with-virginia-phillips-podcast/id1359185865 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/virginia-phillips/yes-you-can-with-virginia-phillips Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/16aLkRbM8wMdYWJYIHNJRW?si=bkrNxGAMSJme-qZ770nc5g Castbox: https://castbox.fm/channel/Yes%2C-You-Can!-with-Virginia-Phillips-id1203620?country=us   [sc name="Episode 2 - Shortcode"]   Today’s Guest Connor Gillivan is a 27-year-old serial entrepreneur. He started his first company out of his college dorm room and scaled it to sell over $25 million on the Amazon Marketplace. Connor is also a published author. Know more about him when you visit ConnorGillivan.com where he writes about entrepreneurship tips, eCommerce strategies, and marketing strategies. Today, Connor is the Chief Marketing Officer of FreeeUp.com, a company that connects top freelance talent with business owners online. Get more actionable tips and advice from Connor! Send him an email: connor@freeeup.com Like him on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/connorgillivan/ Follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/connorgillivan Stay connected at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/connorgillivan/ Schedule a meeting: https://calendly.com/connor-gillivan    

Nathan Hirsch has bootstrapped two multi-million dollar businesses which he runs to this day. Nathan’s first business, Portlight, an Amazon store with over $20 million worth of product sales, emerged from his college dorm room. At Portlight’s peak, Nathan and his team were managing over 500,000 products on the Portlight Amazon store from over 1,000 drop ship suppliers. Nathan’s second business, FreeUp.com, is a hiring marketplace specialized for eCommerce business owners. FreeUp.com now services over 2,000 online businesses and is on pace to hit $3 to $4 million in 2017.   Quotes To Remember: “After a hire, that’s where the real tests begin” “As a business owner, hiring is an investment. It’s an investment of your money, your time, your energy, so when you make an investment into someone, you need to look for those red flags early” “We’ve all worked with someone before who has a bad outlook on life….. that’s a cancer in your business, you don’t want that within 100 yards of your company” “Almost all bad business relationships, come down to a break in communication. At a basic level, your workers need to speak the same language.” “Providing things you can go back and reference, is incredibly important” “You don’t own three companies by working inside 3 companies, it doesn’t work like that, you have to delegate.” “If you waste your time, you’re not getting that back”   What You’ll Learn: Learn when and how to delegate various processes of your business How to pick the right VA, looking past just the skills. Why communication is key in all aspects How to find the right employee by developing your interview process How to turn delegation into revenue   Key Links From The Show: FreeeUp.com --Nathan’s site Skill Sets Rates for FreeeUp Video testimonial on FreeeUp from Ben Cummings How FreeeUp Works Infographic Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies   Recommended Books: Start with Why by Simon Sinek Deliver Happiness by Tony Hsieh Think Like Jeff Bezos by Jamie Morris Free Up Your Business - Nathan’s book

Nathan Hirsch is a 28-year-old serial entrepreneur who is an expert in hiring online and building eCommerce businesses. He co-founded his first eCommerce company out of his dorm room in 2009 drop shipping products on Amazon.com and built it to sell over $25 million worth of product over 5 years. While scaling, Nathan discovered the power of outsourcing and ended up building a remote army of freelancers. In 2015, Nathan co-founded and became the CEO of FreeeUp, an online hiring marketplace that allows business owners fast access to a hand-picked network of top talent freelancers in eCommerce, digital marketing, web development, and much more who have already been vetted for skill, attitude, and communication. FreeeUp interviews hundreds of freelancers each week and only allows the top 1% of applicants into the network. The company has been growing at rapid paces (500%+ YoY) and has quickly become a top destination to hire online for over 3,000 businesses around the world. Nathan has built his personal brand to be synonymous with online hiring and entrepreneurship through 75+ guest appearances on top podcasts: Entrepreneur on Fire with John Lee Dumas, Eventual Millionaire, and handfuls more. Nathan has also become a regular speaker at industry conferences where he teaches other business owners how to hire freelancers and gain back more time in their growing businesses. What you’ll learn about in this episode: The story of how Nathan ran a multi-million dollar business out of his college dorm room Accepting the risk and making smart decisions when hiring How to learn from hiring mistakes so you do better next time Being clear with your team on what is expected Why there’s nothing in your business that you can’t hire for Figuring out what you should delegate off your plate (and when to do it) Focusing on attitude and communication when hiring an employee or contractor Why Nathan uses the same process for hiring FreeeUp freelancers as he does hiring people to his team The Client Expectations Document: how to use this to onboard new employees The importance of consistency as a leader Using meetings to keep people on the same page Why you need to diversify your business Ways to contact Nathan: Website: FreeeUp.com Resources: Client Expectations Document Skill Sets Rates for FreeeUp Video testimonial on FreeeUp from Ben Cummings How FreeeUp Works Infographic Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies

Nathan Hirsch is a 28 year old serial entrepreneur who is an expert in hiring remote workers and eCommerce business. He co-founded his first company out of his dorm room in 2009 drop shipping products on Amazon.com and built it to sell over $20 million worth of products over 5 years. While scaling, Nathan discovered the power of outsourcing and ended up building an remote army of freelancers. In 2015, Nathan co-founded and become the CEO of FreeeUp, an online hiring marketplace focused on connecting businesses with the top 1% of online workers in eCommerce, digital marketing, virtual assistance, and web development. The company has been growing at rapid paces (500%+ YoY) and has quickly become a top destination to hire online for over 2,500 businesses around the world. Nathan has built his personal brand to be synonymous with online hiring and entrepreneurship through over 75 guest appearances on top podcasts: Entrepreneur on Fire with John Lee Dumas, Eventual Millionaire, and handfuls more. He continues to share his knowledge on building remote teams with everyone he comes in contact with and just recently joined the faculty at CEO Space.Links:FreeeUp.comSkill Sets Rates for FreeeUpVideo testimonial on FreeeUp from Ben CummingsHow FreeeUp Works InfographicFree Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies

Connor Gillivan is the co-founder of FreeeUp.com, a place where companies connect with the top 1% of freelancers. The company now serves over 2,500 businesses world-wide. He is the author of Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies. Mr. Gillivan spent three months in South Africa twice to expand knowledge in social entrepreneurship and appeared on media outlets including "The Conscious Millionaire." Website:  https://freeeup.com/ Twitter: @connorgillivan

Connor Gillivan. He’s a 27-year old serial entrepreneur and published author. He started his first company out of his college dorm room and built it to sell over $20M in products on Amazon.com. After he became an expert on hiring online, he co-founded FreeeUp, an online hiring marketplace focused on connecting the top 1% freelancers with business owners. He’s the author of Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Shoe Dog What CEO do you follow? – Elon Musk Favorite online tool? — Jira How many hours of sleep do you get?— 5-6 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – “I wished I knew to stay focused on what I do best”   Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:47 – Nathan introduces Connor to the show 01:32 – Connor makes 20% to 30% of the gross margin of a product on Amazon 01:38 – Net profits end up being from 5%-15% 02:04 – It was 6 years ago when Connor started his business 02:15 – Connor earned on the first year of the business 02:51 – Connor has scaled up his first company 03:00 – The company still operates with $1-2M in revenue per year 03:08 – The team is composed of freelancers who are based around the world 03:27 – The 3 founders, including Connor, are getting their pay quarterly 03:40 – Connor now spends his time on his second business FreeeUp 03:52 – Connor’s first company is Portlight 04:05 – Average price point was  $75-100 04:25 – FreeeUp was launched in 2015 04:29 – Connor and his co-founder learned about hiring freelancers through Odesk and Elance, which merged and is now called Upwork 04:36 – They didn’t like the process of posting job ads and going through every applicant 04:46 – FreeeUp has a better solution where the business owner doesn’t have to do the upfront work 04:58 – FreeeUp finds the top 1%  candidates for the business owners 05:18 – Toptal is more focused on top developers and designers 05:23 – FreeeUp’s freelancers are specialized on e-commerce business operations 05:35 – There’s no upfront free 05:43 – FreeeUp has a standard markup that they charge on their clients for hourly rates 06:06 – The minimum charge is $2 and 20% for the higher price 06:55 – There are over 500 freelancers on FreeeUp 07:28 – FreeeUp’s system can measure the amount they’re paying their freelancers 07:37 – The biggest metric is the hours billed to the client 08:01 – Average billing per hour is $10 08:18 – FreeeUp is keeping $60K-80K in revenue per month 09:11 – FreeeUp has around 1500 signups on the platform 09:16 – FreeeUp bills between 300-500 people who are utilizing their workers 09:45 – 2000-2500 people have been billed since FreeeUp started 09:58 – FreeeUp has a referral program where clients can refer other people who would want to use FreeeUp and they receive $0.50 for every hour that has been billed 10:28 – FreeeUp is more hands on with their client 10:56 – Most clients start slow and when they see FreeeUp’s benefits, they’ll use it more 11:10 – Team size is 20-25 part-time people 11:51 – Connor is currently in Orlando, FL 12:11 – Both of Connor’s businesses are bootstrapped 12:21 – Total transaction volume for 2016 is a bit over a million 12:33 – 2016 average revenue 12:44 – 2017 projected transaction volume is $3-4M 13:20 – Connor puts his money back into his businesses to scale them 13:47 – Connor splits the 20% from FreeeUp 14:32 – Since April, FreeeUp has grown 1000% 15:20 – FreeeUp started winning in the ecommerce industry 15:58 – FreeeUp now offers digital marketing as well and try to find different areas that will interest more clients 17:10 – The Famous Five   3 Key Points: There are more business owners relying on outsourcing for their needs and share with others just how beneficial outsourcing is. Ensure you have backup funds for your company. Focus on what you do best.   Resources Mentioned: The Top Inbox  – The site Nathan uses to schedule emails to be sent later, set reminders in inbox, track opens, and follow-up with email sequences Klipfolio – Track your business performance across all departments for FREE Hotjar – Nathan uses Hotjar to track what you’re doing on this site. He gets a video of each user visit like where they clicked and scrolled to make the site a better experience Acuity Scheduling – Nathan uses Acuity to schedule his podcast interviews and appointments Host Gator – The site Nathan uses to buy his domain names and hosting for the cheapest price possible Audible – Nathan uses Audible when he’s driving from Austin to San Antonio (1.5-hour drive) to listen to audio books Show Notes provided by Mallard Creatives

Connor Gillivan is a 27 year old serial entrepreneur and an expert in eCommerce and online hiring. He co-founded his first eCommerce company out of his dorm room in 2009 and scaled it to sell over $20 million on the Amazon Marketplace. While scaling, he and his co-founders started outsourcing operations and became experts at hiring online. In 2015, Connor co-founded and became the CMO of FreeeUp, an online hiring marketplace specialized for the eCommerce and digital marketing industries. He and his co-founder wanted a better way to hire reliable remote workers without having to spend hours upfront recruiting and interviewing. Today, FreeeUp serves over 2,000 online businesses and is rapidly becoming a favorite destination to hire online.  Connor is a best selling author with his book titled Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies. The book shares secrets that he and his business partner have developed over the 7 years of working together and outlines how entrepreneurs can scale their business to over $1 million.  Finally, Connor owns his own blog, ConnorGillivan.com, where he writes about starting eCommerce businesses, growing as an entrepreneur, and navigating the startup world. 

Connor Gillivan has built a 7-figure businesses trading drop-shipped items on Amazon. Connor has also founded a business called Freeeup which you can use to outsource technical yet time-consuming eCommerce tasks to their band of 400 and growing vetted freelancers (think Upwork but for eCommerce!). AND Connor has just published a brand new book “Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies” – packed with great tips and advice from Connor's years of experience. Given all that I knew I needed to get Connor on the show for a chat. We're going to cover all 3 of those areas today – so get ready for some great information. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

In this episode Shakira M. Brown a.k.a The Small Biz Whisperer talks amazon selling and bootstrap start-up success with Connor Gillivan. Connor is a 27 year-old serial entrepreneur and best selling author on Amazon. After becoming an expert in eCommerce on Amazon, he worked to build a 60 person team and generate over $20 million in sales. He currently is the co-founder and CMO of FreeeUp.com, an online hiring platform bringing together high quality freelancers and growing businesses. The company vets hundreds of remote workers in eCommerce, digital marketing, and web development every week keeping only the top 1% then offers them to their clients for $5 to $50 per hour.  Connor is a master of effective supply and demand. As a college student he and his now business partner created a dorm room-based used textbook reselling business on Amazon.com designed to offer a more competitive price on used textbooks than college campus bookstores. From there they created partnerships with manufacturers which led to having a drop ship business in which they didn’t touch most of what they sold on Amazon.com and the rest is $20 million in sales history.  Connor is a best selling author on Amazon.com for his book Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies. The book shares 50 lessons entrepreneurs can implement to become better at delegating and building high quality teams for their businesses.  Connor shares his inspirational journey with me from college student to successful entrepreneur and shares some of the steps he and his business partner took along the way to reach multi-million dollar success. If you have been thinking about selling anything on amazon.com or building an online business listen to this episode to get tips and insights worth millions. Show Notes: Private Brand Coaching for Your Small Business with The Small Biz Whisperer Check out this Websites: http://njprexpert.com Follow Me on Twitter: @SmallBizWhisper Subscribe to this Podcast in iTunes (please leave a review if you like what you hear!) Subscribe to this Podcast in Google Play Subscribe to this Podcast in Stitcher  Interview Links Pick up Connor's Book on amazon.com: Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies FreeeUp.com to hire or signup as a freelancer Check out Connor's blog where he writes  about eCommerce, entrepreneurship, and startups: www.connorgillivan.com Connect on social https://twitter.com/connorgillivan https://www.facebook.com/cdgillivan https://www.linkedin.com/in/connorgillivan Be a guest on Moment Masters Show - email podcast@momentmasters.com 

Our Guest:   Connor Gillivan is a 27 year old serial entrepreneur. He co-founded his first company selling textbooks on Amazon from his college dorm room and built it to sell over $20 million.  After building a team of over 60 people, he co-founded FreeeUp, an online hiring marketplace making the process of finding reliable freelancers easier for businesses. His book, Free Up Your Business, is an Amazon bestseller and shares 50 secrets how he's built his companies.   Story:   From starting a multimillion dollar company in sales from his dorm room to founding a company with a team of 60 people, today we have our guest Connor Gillivan.   A few highlights of what you will hear:   Connor’s journey from where he started. Started his first business during college. What dropshipping is. How he co-founded FreeeUp. What his responsibilities are for his company. His best selling book, Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies. How he hit Amazon bestseller for his book. Where FreeeUp is going in the future. Impactful Quotes from Connor:   “We were selling all kinds of products -- you name it we were probably selling it at one point.”   “It allows you to have inventory online without actually holding it, which gives you a great opportunity to test different products.”   “We came to the conclusion that we didn't like the solutions that were out there, because of the time it took.”   “Writing a book and being able to offer advice to other people in the business is what we wanted to do.”   “That's what I am strategizing, figuring out the best way to continue to get consistent sales.”   “Each Friday of every week I would spend about 4-5 hours of writing the book.”   “This year we are on pace to do around 3-4 million dollars in sales.”   “We have around 1500 clients signed up on our platform on a weekly basis.”   “Our goal is to keep growing it consistently.” Featured Quote:   “It always seem impossibly until it's done.” -Nelson Mandela Connect with Connor!   FreeeUp Connor Gillivan Free Up Your Business Start now!   Ready to take your business and lifestyle to the next level in college? Grab your seat in our Entrepreneur Accelerator Program: College Edition. Connect with us! Sabah Ali and Dan Tieman. Our Snapchats: @Sabahh14 & @Tieman - Snap us!

Many Shopify store owners are bootstrapped solopreneurs, which means you're handling everything in your business. As your business grows, you may want to delegate tasks, to give yourself free time to do focus on more valuable things, or maybe you just want to work less. The first time you hire is the scariest. Where do you start? How do you train people? How should you hire? To answer these questions and more, we're joined by Connor Gillivan, author of Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies, founder of FreeeUp.com, and a veteran ecommerce entrepreneur who has sold over $20 million on Amazon. — Subscribe to The Unofficial Shopify Podcast on iTunes Subscribe to The Unofficial Shopify Podcast on Stitcher Subscribe to The Unofficial Shopify Podcast via RSS Join The Unofficial Shopify Podcast Facebook Group — Learn: How Connor went from college dorm room entrepreneur to selling over $20 million on Amazon How he took that experience and leveraged it to build FreeeUp, online hiring marketplace for eCommerce business owners, with over 1,000 customers. How Shopify store owners can utilize remote freelancers to stay focused on what they do best and make their operations more efficient. Connor's process for how store owners can remove tasks from their plate, surround themselves with experts, and keep pushing the company forward with their expertise. And why it's okay to take a trial and error approach Links: FreeeUp.com - company Connor's Personal Blog Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies Connor's Facebook Connor's Twitter Connor's LinkedIn Free Guide I want to send you a sample chapter of Ecommerce Bootcamp, absolutely free. Tell me where to send your sample at ecommerce-bootcamp.com

Connor Gillivan is a 27 year old serial entrepreneur that has built and runs two million dollar companies. He started his entrepreneurial career in his dorm room buying and selling text books on the Amazon Marketplace. After becoming an expert at Amazon, he helped to expand the company, Portlight, to other product categories eventually selling over $20 million on Amazon, building a team of over 60 people, and working with over 1,000 drop ship suppliers. Connor co-founded his second venture, FreeeUp, in late 2015 after becoming an expert at hiring remote freelancers with Portlight. He and his business partner were frustrated with the current platforms and wanted to create a simpler solution to hiring remote workers online. FreeeUp is now an online hiring marketplace offering pre-vetted workers from $5 to $50 per hour to over 1,000 businesses. The platform is experiencing rapid growth and has been featured in leading publications like The Huffington Post. Connor's first book, Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies, publishes on April 26th on Amazon and FreeeUp.com. The book reveals 50 core lessons that he and his business partner have learned from the many ups and downs they've experienced as entrepreneurs. In his free time, Connor writes about eCommerce, leadership, and startups at http://www.ConnorGillivan.com.

A Conversation with Connor Gillivan – Serial eCommerce Entrepreneur and Author Connor is the CMO of Freeeup.com, has sold over $20 million worth of products online, is the Co-founder of three successful eCommerce companies and has had his writing featured on leading online publications, such as WebRetailer.com, Influencive.com, and The Huffington Post. Your browser does […] The post 4 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies appeared first on Custom Ecommerce Web Development.