Slash Podcast
Slash Podcast
Julian Haber, Nanci Murdock
While the model of long-term employment and job stability is collapsing, the barriers to entry in starting your own business have never been lower. Welcome to Gigonomics—the gig economy. Join us each week as we explore the current ​tectonic shifts in the trends, technology, and mindset of work. Slash Podcast: How do you work?
The Back to School Episode
Is it ever too late to go back to school? (Hint: of course not) Join us in this "back to school episode" where we look at the importance of continued learning for your career, brain health, and probably even your sanity. We take a look at new options and platforms to match your style, time and budget and we might just share a few things that we'd like to learn ourselves. Welcome to Season Two!
Oct 11, 2017
44 min
Season One: Episode Finale
And...that's a wrap! Season One: Final Episode
Jun 27, 2017
23 min
Facebook Group or Page? Which is best for your brand?
This is a super common question. A listener actually tweeted us and asked this question, I want to start a presence on Facebook and I'm not sure whether a Page or a Group is the best way to go? Listen and find out the answer.
Jun 22, 2017
21 min
You've been hacked
So the point of this episode is taking 30 minutes today to implement just a few free or super low cost solutions can save you days and days of lost productivity.
Jun 15, 2017
37 min
Pricing, what to charge for your time?
As we talked about in the last episode if you find out why he wants the new website, and you put yourself in his or her shoes, and you identify, you listen, and you say I hear this is the problem, this is the cost of your problem I have a solution.
Jun 8, 2017
48 min
Sales funnels for prospects - got one?
We talked previously in an episode about lead magnets, and we are going to touch on them today. It's where you give a piece of free content away. It can be a guide, a cheat sheet, short video course and an audio something like this podcast in return for an email address and then that email address at that point you as a sales or course creator or a freelancer can use it to either market your services or your product.
Jun 3, 2017
43 min
Is the gig economy even a thing?
A recent report, this would be from October 2016 by McKinsey and company found that there is up to a 162 million people in EU and in the USA that are working as freelancers in some capacity an independent worker. We will get into what that means, which in America, one in three working Americans are freelancers that is 54 million people or 33 percent of the working US population, which is huge. And In Canada, we are on a ten percent sizing reduction from the United States, but we've got 2.7 million self-employed gains or those at least of you who declared themselves as self-employed on their taxes.
May 25, 2017
46 min
Let's talk accountability partners
Well I think this whole podcast is proof of accountability, not just this episode the fact that we are doing it. I think we mutually held each other accountable to a project that we all wanted to do that started from intuit ideas to something real.
May 17, 2017
35 min
Build. Measure. Learn. Iterate.
I think when you’re freelancing when you start out you have to develop a productive schizophrenia. You have to be the do-er, and the rest is getting the stuff done. You have to be the executor or have executive control and be telling yourself what to do. Then you have to make sure that you are settling yourself with these important goals.
May 10, 2017
37 min
Launch A Website In Under 60 Minutes
When we are talking about how you price yourself as a freelancer is to sell a solution. You don't sell an hourly rate; you don't sell the website. You sell the solution, which happens to be a website.
May 3, 2017
21 min
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