How One Freelancer Earns Over $300k Per Year Copywriting On Fiverr | With Alexandra Fasulo

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, Episode 155 Welcome to the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, where our mission is to help you turn your creative passions into a stable, reliable income. If you're in audio, video, design, photography, or really any other creative field, and you just want to learn from other successful creatives, you're in the right place.

Welcome to the 6 Figure Creative Podcast. I'm your host, Brian Hood, and I'm here with my big, bald, beautiful, mustached co-host, Christopher J. Graham. Chris, how are you doing today, buddy?

Christopher J. Graham (0:33)

I'm fantastic, man. How are you doing?

Brian Hood (0:35)

I'm doing pretty excellent, just because we've done so many podcasts this week, and we're finally getting 6 Figure Creative out and launched to the world after such a long time off for various reasons.

And so yeah, my spirits are up, my dude. What about you? You got anything particularly exciting?

Christopher J. Graham (0:50)

I'm great. I've been working out every day lately in the gym, and that's been, as you promised.

Brian Hood (0:55)

So I'm gonna have to change the intro. So like, if anyone's listened for a while, you know I always say big ball, beautiful. I just added the mustache thing because you have a mustache now, which took me off guard, and I tried not to laugh at you the first time I saw it, but you know, whatever. But that's part of the intro now. But if you stop being big, I've got to take that out as well. So keep working out. And we'll replace big with something else, maybe broad shoulder, I don't know. It's always fun when we have guests on the podcast. Now that we're doing more and more interviews, I felt more and more awkward doing any sort of long-term banter, which is great for our audience because that means we actually get into the episode faster than normal. So we're gonna do that today because we have an awesome guest on the show today. Known as, and I don't know if you go by this officially, Alex, known as the freelance Fiverr millionaire, Alex Fasulo. She's on the podcast with us today, and she's what I would consider an expert on all things Fiverr. She has made, and these are public numbers, so I'm not being like Snoopy. These are out there. You know, if you want me to cut these out, I can cut these out. Alex, she's made 2017, starting out in offering freelance copywriting, made $63,000 the first year. Second year, 2018, $273,000. My God, what a jump. Third year, 2019, $350,000. And then 2020, last year, the year that the world kind of fell apart, still made $378,000. She's been featured on Fiverr's blog. Of course, why wouldn't they? I'm surprised she's not the spokesperson of Fiverr. She's been featured on CNBC, Forbes, Business Insider, Yahoo.

Now I feel completely inadequate and inequipped to interview someone who's been featured in all these areas. But this is Alex Fasulo. Thank you so much for coming on the podcast.

Alexandra Fasulo (2:19)

Thank you, Brian. That was a lovely introduction. You don't have to cut those numbers. My freaking health insurance is public.

Brian Hood (2:28)

Yeah, 378 bucks a month or something like that.

Alexandra Fasulo (2:31)

Exactly, yeah.

Brian Hood (2:32)

I did my research. So Alex, there's so much I want to discuss with you on this episode, and we have so little time in the grand scheme of life and how many years we have ahead of us in our lives. So in this interview, I would like to cover a few things. But first, I want to talk about something that I want you to change my mind on, and that is something that I've publicly been, I've always been against Fiverr.

As an Enneagram 8, if you know anything about Enneagram, Enneagram 8s, they crave control over the things in their life.

And Fiverr takes that control away from me. And I've always been scared to put my business on another platform, whether I'm dependent on that. So we don't have to dispel that myth or that argument right now. I'm hoping you change your mind through this because the numbers don't lie.

You don't get to almost 400K a year on a platform and say it sucks. Like obviously it is working for you. So I just want to set the stage for our listeners right now, especially for those who are like Fiverr sucks. I'd never use Fiverr. I mean, Alex has got the proof here. So let's dive into this. I want to talk about with you a question before I'd even get to the beginnings of Fiverr and how you make a creative Fiverr. This stuff you've talked about a million times forever. I want to ask you, if you were starting over today as a freelance writer, would you start on Fiverr again?