This is Roberto Blake of robertoblake.com,

helping you create something awesome today.

So today, I want to actually share something

awesome that I've created to try and help

as many of you as possible.

A lot of you know and are familiar with my story,

and that, you know, ever since even before I

finished high school, and obviously while I was

working my way through college and

in between jobs, I was a freelance professional.

Whether I was doing freelance photography,

whether I had been doing freelance writing,

whether I was doing freelance graphic and web design.

I made a lot of money by using my skills

and giving them to people who really needed them,

and charging whatever I felt comfortable with.

Freelancing was very good to me.

It saw me through some very hard times.

It saw me to clear profitability and financial freedom,

and it allowed me to get to a place where today,

I'm very happy as a creative entrepreneur,

running my own business, and even outsourcing

and hiring other freelancers to do things

that help me create awesome things

for all of you and share them with the world.

So, what I did was I took a lot of those

best lessons learned and a lot of my experiences,

and I created some really cool free content for you guys.

I created an email course, and I created a free ebook

called, "Freelancing Is Not Free."

You get both the free ebook and you get

opted in to the weekly email course if you

sign up for it in the link in the description

and in the annotation, and you get that free and clear.

All you're doing is giving up an email address.

This is something that I could have

actually charged money for.

I debated with this with a lot of my friends.

I debated with this with my business advisors.

They told me that I should have

just made a $99 info product.

I should have just made a three hour video course

and sold it for 100 bucks, whether that was

as a download or a course online somewhere,

and you know what?

I almost did it.

But I really wanted to sit there, and decided that

the most important thing for me was to help

as many of you be successful and have at least

the fundamentals that you need to start

doing things like charging what you're worth,

understanding how to be productive,

what free tools and resources are available to you

as a freelancer, how to track your time,

how to audit yourself, how to figure out

what you're really good at and whether a

freelancing business is even for you in the first place.

So, that's why I did this free course.

I'm gonna be adding even more to it as time goes on.

You know, every now and again, and there will be

other free materials that I decide

to just throw out there.

There might come a time when I decide to

build out something a lot more robust,

and I will probably, you know, ask for

sales on something like that.

But in the meantime, I want all of you to

take advantage of this free email course

and the free ebook, as well as I think there's

other materials that I'm releasing like a

freelancer's checklist for how to capture money

and make sure that your clients pay.

There's all these great things that I just wish

had been available to me, you know, ten and fifteen

years ago when I was getting started.

So anyway, that is my gift to you.

That is how I'm gonna help you create awesome things

and share them with the world.

So, I hope to see you guys in the course.

If you have questions, leave those

in the comments section.

FYI, I'm filtering the comments just because

there's been so much spam lately for this particular thing.

So I have to actually approve the comments,

but don't worry.

I'm seeing all of them.

Links this time for the course are in the

annotation link above and in the description below,

so you don't want to miss out.

Anyway, like this video if you like it.

Don't forget to subscribe.

Share the offer for this free course with

anybody you think would find it helpful

in their freelance journey, and guys,

just remember that freelancing is not free.

There's a cost of doing business,

and there is a value to what you're doing,

and I want to help you make sure that

you're valuing yourself appropriately.

As always, you guys, thanks so very much

for watching, and don't forget,

create something awesome today.