This Freelance Writer Makes $378k a Year
This is how Alex Fasulo did it
If you’re a freelance writer, or just write on the side, you need to read this. It’s possible to make a tonne of money and gain financial freedom through writing. Don’t believe me?
Then you probably haven’t heard of Alex Fasulo.
This is how she makes $378k a year through freelance writing.
Early Career
After applying to over 200 jobs, Alex finally got a job in PR, working in New York. She absolutely hated it.
Making $36k a year in New York for a job she absolutely hated, took a toll on Alex and she described it to be the darkest period in her life.
After 4 weeks of contemplating, she finally had had enough and decided to quit her in just 4 weeks. Then she thought about giving Fiverr a try.
Starting Fiverr
In the April of 2016, Alex decided to give Fiverr a try after quitting her job. She had a couple grands in her bank account and nothing to lose, might as well give Fiverr a try.
Soon she scored a couple gigs and was making $15 a day. Before she knew it, she fell in love with making money online. She felt powerful, she felt liberated when she realised that she didn’t have to have a corporate 9–5 job to make money and pay her bills.
Once she got used to making 15 bucks a day, she thought, what if I started making $50 a day or $100 a day. And, she did.
She started off with writing blog posts for clients but later branched off to ghost writing e-books for personalities and influencers (yes, even for influencer dogs). She says that is able to wrap up a 60 hour project within 40 hours because of how good she has her system down.
She went full force into freelance writing and soon she was making 3 grands a month. Alex closed off 2017 with a little over $63,000.
Success and Fiverr Pro
Fiverr Pro is a vetted tier of freelancers that works with some of the largest corporations in the world.
Alex made it to this group in 2018.
It was in 2018 that her earnings skyrocketed. In the January of 2018, she started making double digit grands a month. She says she made around $13k that January.
Fiverr Pro even asked to be in one of their commercials because at that point she was one of the most trusted freelancers clients turned to when they needed quality work in less time. Alex was a great candidate to be Fiverr Pro’s poster girl.
She closed off 2018 with around $276k. But this was just the beginning for Alex.
In 2020, when the pandemic hit, and millions of people were losing their jobs, many people turned to the internet to make money and to establish their new businesses.
On one side people were losing their jobs, and on the other, Alex was being flooded by requests from clients. Since everybody wanted a writer to write blog posts and for their websites and businesses, and ghostwriters to get their stories in the world, Alex had no dearth of clients and gigs that year. She ended up making $378k that year. Her best year yet.
What’s next for Alex?
In her true entrepreneurial fashion, Alex wants to try everything and everything.
That means leaving freelance writing and Fiverr at some point in the future. But that’s okay, just because she’s leaving Fiverr doesn’t mean she’s leaving the internet.
She wants to become an educator in this field and teach and empower others to live the life that they want, doing the thing that they love.
She already has a YouTube channel where she regularly posts guides to improve and get better at freelancing and making money through other side hustles. Other than that, she has personal clients and has launched her courses to help new freelancers improve at their thing, and not to mention, she has her own book on the way!
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