Joining me on today’s episode of <a href="https://scalingfreelance.com/podcast-devesh-khanal/">Scaling Freelance</a> is Devesh Khanal. Devesh is the Co-founder of Grow and Convert and the CEO of Growth Rock. He got his start freelancing and transitioned into growing two agencies. Growth Rock increases conversion rates for 7 and 8-figure online businesses through A/B testing anduser research. They have deep expertise in optimization and user experience of ecommerce and SaaS business in particular.
 
Devesh and I discuss:
<ul>
 <li>How to successfully manage a remote team</li>
 <li>Why hiring can be SO hard</li>
 <li>What your first hires should be and how to think about it</li>
 <li>Why Virtual Assistants don't work for him</li>
 <li>Product Market fit</li>
 <li>Finding a repeatable channel for 
</li>
</ul>
Book Recommendations:
<ol>
 <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/014310960X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=014310960X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=scalingfreela-20&amp;linkId=3f65e38f009c3711494f950c423b2fd9">Small Giants</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062874780/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0062874780&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=scalingfreela-20&amp;linkId=c1c8707f49d9fe8fe7eb04347c3483db">It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1328972356/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1328972356&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=scalingfreela-20&amp;linkId=9018f4850a6f069378fba822fc6cf22b">Company of One by Paul Jarvis</a><a href="https://www.freshbooks.com/fbstaticprod-uploads/public-website-assets/other/Breaking-the-Time-Barrier.pdf"> 
</a></li>
</ol>
Tool Recommendations:
<ol>
 <li>Trello</li>
 <li>Basecamp<a href="http://ahrefs.com/"> 
</a></li>
</ol>
People to Follow:
<ol>
 <li><a href="https://growthtools.com">Brian Harris at Growth Tools</a><a href="http://fizzle.co/"> 
</a></li>
</ol>
Guest Info:
<a href="groundconvert.com">growandconvert.com</a> 
<a href="growthrock.co">growthrock.co</a>
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/deveshkhanal/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/deveshkhanal/</a>

009: The importance of value-based pricing for freelancers w/ Jessica Jones

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