The Jerry Banfield Show

How do we balance out what we want to earn per hour with what wage people will actually pay us? What works to set an hourly rate we are happy with? For freelancing online this tends to continuously be challenging. Will you hear the stories of exploring how much to charge and the series of jobs I went through before ever getting into doing work I loved for a great hourly wage? After graduating with my bachelor’s degree in 2006, I accepted a job for less than $10 where I was risking my life because I was unwilling to give up the demand to have my own place or move home with my parents. I thought I was smart by trying to keep a job always and just move up hourly pay over and over again. The problem was that every time I got a better job, I just made an excuse to upgrade where I lived and increase my expenses. Never once did I successfully negotiate my salary in taking jobs until I finally negotiated an extra $3,000 a year in graduate school. While you might think having my own business gives me freedom from having to negotiate salary, it actually tends to be the opposite. Instead of thinking about my pay only when getting a job, every potential client brings up the same issue of how much for what? Now I have a simple system starting at a rate I was excited to work at of $149. Every client that hired me after that I rated my rate by a few percent because I figured if they were willing to pay it, why not charge a little bit more? Now my minimum for one hour is $299 on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/jerrybanfield or a minimum of $249 if 25 hours are ordered. In the face of the same economic uncertainty we all face in different ways, viewers have suggested I compromise. Why not take a lower rate say $50 to make videos you enjoy anyway? What I have learned is that if I am going to do work, it is up to me to have the self-respect and respect for the person hoping to employ me to only accept work I will be happy to do. Selecting an hourly rate I am excited to work at is a big part of me being happy to do work. While $50 per hour is more than I made most of my life, today I have spent so much time working for free that I am grateful to make around $15,000 in income each month without needing to do anything. Therefore, why would I accept work for less than $249 an hour on a 25 hour commitment when I do not NEED more money? Why not just do whatever feels right each day without concerning myself with how much money it makes so that I am available to take $299 an hour work when it is available instead of being fully committed to making $50 an hour without the time or energy to do anything that might be useful for free? This continues to be a challenging subject for me to share on because it is so emotionally charged with rational and irrational arguments from inside and out. I hope sharing about it again is useful for each of us today as we work to make a world where we all are happy with what we receive in exchange for our service! My exercise today is to remember my gratitude today for your help in giving me the courage to say no to clients offering less than what I charge and to have the chance to share that courage with you during day 145 of Happier People podcast!

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How would you feel with a great night of sleep each night? Hear what works for me to consistently get 8 hours of sleep nightly including falling asleep, staying in REM and deep sleep, and waking up feeling restored! The simple truth I see is that people getting good sleep are consistently happier, healthier, and more productive than those waking up frequently, functioning on small amounts of sleep, sleeping sporadically, and struggling to get a good night of sleep. Does the insanity of day time life translate into the same for sleep? Is not the battle to get good sleep a tool to gain motivation for fixing the rest of problems in daily life? For me, the most unhappy parts of my life also found me with the most disrupted sleep. I start by sharing what my life looks like today with balanced energy throughout the day matched with the ability to relax and sit on the couch watching a masterclass by deadmau5 for 40 minutes before getting up to write this. At night when I get in bed, I consistently fall asleep fast without the torturous hours I used to endure of tossing and turning or without the handicaps I used to depend on like alcohol to pass out instead of fall asleep. What works for me today to help avoid waking up early and be calm when I go to bed? Listen to the stories I share to see how blacking out all sunlight in my bedroom helps me stay sound asleep longer and how having 2 HOURS of pre sleep routines ensures that my brain is prepared to let go instead of worry and obsess when it comes to bed time. One family member inspire me to make this because they have struggled for more than ten years to get healthy sleep routines. In my experience, adjusting sleep routines should be simple if I am living healthy but when I am living an insane life, it is impossible to truly change anything in my life from diet to sleep to alcohol or sex habits. I rely on support from hundreds of others from authors to a 12 step recovery program to spending time with my family and advice from strangers, counselors, friends, and family members to help with the insanity. I share how for more than ten years myself my life was so filled with being insane that I could never make any progress on areas like getting better sleep and staying healthy without complete outside control. Today I am grateful that making changes in my life is simple because I focus on being of service to you each day. My exercise for today is to remember my gratitude for the THOUSANDS of people that have shared their life experience ranging from seemingly completely unrelated areas to direct tips like black out curtains which have helped me today to consistently get a great night of sleep. Thank you very much for reading about day 144 of Happier People podcast and I hope you enjoy it!

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Hear a track I made using 9 Morphine Additive Synthesizer variations in FL Studio 12 in less than 2 hours with the help of hundreds of views on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch especially thanasis03 who suggested the title because it was made on Monday and feels like a relaxing lazy song! To make this, I used a C5 Kick and Hat along with these 9 Morphine Additive Synthesizer presets. LED Acidsynth NUC for the drone note, SFX CombZap FG for a sound effect transition, and VOX 5th Element MC for the chorus. For the main patterns of the song, I used LED Dark MC, KBD Butter Organ FG, KBD Comb Spectra MC, LED Analog Saw FG, PAD Vintage Radio MC, and KBD Dynamic Suitcase FG. Thank you for reading about the sixth song I have created live within my first two weeks of trying to make music online with a digital audio workstation! I am grateful at least 5 viewers online contributed suggestions I applied directly to making this beat and hope this is inspirational you in creating and sharing your own music online!

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Earning money online seems really difficult at first and I hope this video makes it seem much easier. In my first year working online, I struggled to make anything. In the nearly five years that have followed, I have earned almost $2 million online in payments received with around $5 million in total sales. The absolute easiest way to get started is simply to work with friends, family, and people you ALREADY KNOW. How do I know? My friends collectively earned over $100,000 last year working for me! They never had to send in a job application or a resume. As work came along for me, I asked them for help and they learned what they needed to do to provide services. Given most of us are connected to hundreds of people, the statistics suggest that most of us have someone in our lives that could benefit from our help online. If we ask around and share what we can do in a manner of collaboration rather than desperation, the odds are in our favor for finding an amazing opportunity to freelance and make money doing all work that is online. IF you search and look and absolutely cannot find anyone in your life that needs your help, then simply being useful and of service in the places you already hang out may produce the same opportunity. I have spent probably close to a hundred thousand dollars paying students, viewers, coinstructors, comment posters, group members, clients, and customers for help with my business. While I experienced only annoyance in doing giveaways and contests where people begged for money, I love to invite people helping me online to participate financially in my business. The secret is that without all of their help, I would not be here with you either! Collaborating with others effectively is how my business grows and other online business owners know that same truth. Growth tends to focus around we that work well with others meaning just helping others solve problems with comments, remaining interested, and showing up day after day I think is likely to produce amazing results based on my experience working with others. I have made the majority of my money online by generously giving as much as I could stand and setting up ways for people to give back by purchasing my online courses. The best part about this tip is that it is not hard! Looking closer at what we already do tends to produce much bigger results than trying to find something new. When people are struggling in my experience with finding work, they are also consistently ignoring the relationships they already have and seeking something new which is challenging to find because so many others do the same! Would you like me to make more short tips videos like this? If so, would you leave a comment here to help me see that I should? Maybe one day your comment here will lead into me having an opportunity for you! Thank you for reading this and I hope you have a wonderful day today!

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Would you like to learn how to launch and grow your video blog aka vlog and/or podcast on YouTube and Facebook live along with being available on iTunes? Watch this video for a summary of how I am doing it today! Will you take the full class free at http://skl.sh/2nL7N6x with a one month free trial of Skillshare premium? Skillshare is the best value I have ever seen in online education because for less than the price of one paid course each month I get unlimited access to 14,000+ video classes including most offered on other websites! To see all of software and equipment I use, would you go to https://jerrybanfield.com/resources/ and use the links I have there because if you buy anything, I might receive a referral bonus which is a way you can give me a tip at no additional cost to you!

Watching day 143 of my vlog and Happier People podcast I hope will help with motivation to get started, a simple way to promote a podcast to friends, an easy way to go live on Facebook with 2 clicks, highlighting the importance of feedback, and sharing inside exactly how I have made 142 podcast episodes in a row along with doing many live on Facebook and YouTube!

Wirecast is the software I use to make filming and live streaming so easy! If you decide to buy, would you use my link at http://jerry.tips/wirecst because Wirecast will give me 15% of the sale as their way of saying thank you for sharing which you can use to provide me with a tip without it costing you anything! With my business based on sharing all of what I know for the lowest cost, I appreciate every way in which you are willing to help!

Buzzsprout is what I use to host my podcast and get it into iTunes as well as Google Music at the $24 a month plan which gives me up to 12 hours of audio per month which I actually use! If you use my link at http://jerry.tips/buzzsprout Buzzsprout will give both of us a $20 Amazon gift card as their way of saying thank you for making the referral!

My friend and fellow Skillshare instructor Tomas George helped me setup my audio equipment. I know use exactly what he shows for the microphone, pre-amp, and USB interface at http://tomasgeorge.com/resources.

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Will Noahj456 listen to my track made for using the Ray Gun will running a Train of zombies in Call of Duty Black Ops or Zombies in Spaceland? I made this in FL Studio 12 in just an hour live on YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, Beam, Hitbox, and Twitter by taking suggestions from followers using all samples including air chorus, cloud11, MKVibes 096 105, A6NDRM.c4, Bass Drum 2_Raw, Bass Drum8_LONG, Click2, and Click1!

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Are my Happier People podcast and vlog episodes too long at 20 minutes each? Would you prefer a 5 minute maximum as I used for day 142 here? Help me learn how to best serve you by liking, disliking, or commenting on this video on YouTube, Facebook, or @jerrybanfield on Twitter to show me what format is best. With an average of 20 minutes per Happier People vlog and podcast, I have seen feedback from some saying it is a perfect length for driving to work while others suggest shorter videos would be better because the longer videos bring up a thought of "I will not finish it anyway, why even start?" Today I am grateful to have the courage to not get so attached to how I do everything and to ask for help consistently as I have done here. Thank you for reading about day 142 of Happier People podcast! My exercise is to be willing to receive feedback instead of being defensive about the suggestions I receive!

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What makes us struggle to put into action what we know? Why we find it challenging to eat healthy when we know how? When we work hard to learn the facts, why do we then seem unable to benefit or feel even worse than when we started? Hear my stories of struggling to do any better even when I knew how and maybe the path will become easier for you! My exercise is to notice any disconnection today between where I know what to do and I do the opposite. I noticed a small one in writing this description as I was uploading. In the small space between starting my upload and tabbing Google Chrome over to Evernote to write my description, I knew I would be better off avoiding checking the cryptocurrency prices BUT I did it anyway. 5 minutes later, I felt worse and tabbed back over here to share that even as I look at this in my own life, the constant temptation is there to deviate from the path that seems simple and obvious into complexity and opportunity. Thank you for reading about day 141 of Happier People podcast here with me and I hope you enjoy it!

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Would you like to hear my new plan to stock up on canned beans, vegetables, fruits, and peanut butter in case of a food shortage or temporary disaster?

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Thank you CRYPTOCOREY on YouTube for helping me make this boss battle sounding beat and selecting the name "Unique Crypto Beat" for it! I used FL Studio with the 808 on FPC Pop 15 along with pulse 50 samples and WP Bass C3 - L along with volume automation!

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