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🗓️ 25 March 2025
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In today’s episode, we help a social media manager set a fair hourly rate. Learn how to balance your skills and market demands to price your services confidently.
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0:00.0 | Calm the chaos of order fulfillment with the shipping software that delivers. Switch to ShipStation |
0:05.1 | today. Go to Shipstation.com and use Code Sidehustle to sign up for your free trial. That's Shipstation.com |
0:12.2 | Code Sidehustle. |
0:16.2 | Lemonada |
0:16.8 | Lemonada. How can you set the right hourly rate for your side hustle? |
0:28.2 | In this episode, we're going to help a social media manager set a fair hourly rate. |
0:32.7 | That is one that is fair, not just to her customers or clients, but fair to her. |
0:38.6 | I want you to be able to have a profitable side hustle or a small business, maybe even eventually work your way out of a job. |
0:43.8 | And pricing your services is just one of the toughest challenges for new freelancers and side |
0:48.8 | hustlers of all kinds. I hear it all the time. How do I decide what to price? And we look at that |
0:52.9 | question from various perspectives. But today I want to focus on a specific person, this social media manager, |
0:59.2 | helping her figure out the right hourly rate. This is going to connect really closely with the |
1:03.2 | weekend workshop series that we've been doing, which comes out once a week. I think we're on |
1:07.7 | day 13 or day 14 of that series now, one day a week for the whole year. |
1:12.6 | So let's consider some strategies for calculating your rate, staying competitive, and building a |
1:16.8 | pricing model that grows with your experience. Because as you get better and more experienced, |
1:21.3 | I think you should get paid more. All right, that's today's topic, the detailed question, |
1:25.4 | and discussion coming right up. |
1:29.8 | Saitasol School is sponsored by our longtime partnership station. |
1:33.6 | Let's talk about the chaos of life here for a moment. |
1:36.0 | You know, life can be chaotic. |
1:37.6 | But if you are in charge of order fulfillment for an e-commerce business, you know that it's |
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