Without the right vehicle, the world’s most talented race car driver will still fall behind those with a well-built and finely tuned car. For the hundreds of millions of freelancers around the world, myself included, we are only as powerful as the platform we use to conduct our business.
For eight years, my platform of choice, has earned over $3,000 from my hard work. Each dollar came from a client who was happy to pay me for my work. What many of them didn’t know is that a hefty 20% of what they paid for my services went to the platform they found me on.
With the average freelancer here in America earning $13,490, every dollar counts. When two of every ten dollars is going to the company facilitating these transactions (not to mention payment processing fees), we lose potential—the potential to gain our independence from employers, the potential to provide better lives to our families, the potential to continue to spread our gifts to help people and businesses from the U.S. to Puerto Rico, from Brazil to Australia.
A Crafty-enabled freelancer is operating a well-built and finely tuned race car. They can fulfill their true potential and live to the fullest without losing money, freedom, and opportunities because of a platform designed to profit a business instead of helping the people who are providing valuable services.
With no fees and by making doing what they love easier--Crafty makes life a little bit better for freelancers and self-employed creatives, and for that, I'm thankful.
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