Close Your First Side Gig

Land your first side gig in 30 days.

Close your first side gig is an online course that will teach you how to land your first side gig in 30 days.

But unlike other courses, you won’t learn passively – you’ll identify your marketable skills, get conversations going with prospects, and take the first step towards working when, where, and how you want.

Stop overthinking.

Finally start working for yourself in 2024.

Have you wanted to start working for yourself, but aren’t sure what first step to take?

Are you overwhelmed with the bureaucracy, paperwork, and the logistics of working for yourself?

Have you started looking for side gigs, but now feel stuck?

Are you contacting potential customers, having conversations with your friends, but not landing any contract?

Do you have millions of ideas, but struggle to put yourself out there?

Do you find yourself drafting plans after plans, but never taking action?

What salespeople who work with me are saying…

The plan you need to finally start working for yourself

All remote salespeople who want to work for themselves face the same 5 problems:

If you’re reading this, chances are one (or more) of these problems are keeping you up at night (and keeping you from working for yourself).

And chances are, you know you should start doing something about it – which is why you’re on this page in the first place.

Whether it’s to make money on the side, accelerate your career trajectory, or help you quit that job you hate, landing a side gig has been on your mind for a while.

They have golden handcuffs
They don’t know what to sell
They don’t know where to start
They don’t know how to find customers
They don’t know how to package their offers

The plan you’ve been missing

Maybe you’ve tried closing side gigs before. But, time and time again, you fall off. Something comes up. What starts off exciting becomes too difficult. And before you know it, you’re back to square one.

But this is because you had no plan.

You tried to start working for yourself, almost doomed from the beginning.

Close Your First Side Gig solves that problem. You use a proven framework (the one I used to leave my full-time job) with one goal: work when, where, and how you want.

This creates clarity unlike anything you’ve ever experienced

Get rid of your self-doubts

There are 3 self-doubts killing your independence:

Doubt #1:

I don’t have anything to sell

So many talented salespeople think they have to sell a product or service to be able to make a living. They are wrong. I have learned that getting paid comes from finding a problem worth solving and getting paid to make a dent in this problem (you don’t even need to solve the whole problem).

Doubt #2:

No one is going to pay me

Have you been constantly thinking of working for yourself, but can’t believe someone is going to pay you? This is a common misconception among salespeople. They spend their life making other people rich, and they only take a fraction of that money home.

Doubt #3:

I can’t build a career on my own terms

As soon as you accept a full-time job, it becomes harder to build a life in your terms. The recurring salary, the health insurance, and all these benefits prevent you from working when, where, and how you want. Leaving the stability of a full-time job is the HARDEST part for salespeople.

Stop waiting for the right moment.

The biggest mistake salespeople who want to work for themselves make? Waiting for the perfect moment to start building the life they want. You think you need to wait for the conditions to be perfect to leave your job and work on your own.

But newsflash: you’re never ready.

With this mindset, you put all your energy planning, and waiting for the right opportunity to come by.

Instead, you want to start having conversations, while you’re working full-time. By speaking with people in your network, you’ll create a feedback loop, and you’ll start seeing patterns in what people need.

Stop dreaming. Start putting yourself out there.

Let’s be honest.

If you’re reading this, you know you should be working for yourself. Since “work for myself” found its way on your to-do list, you’ve seen dozens of others do it successfully, leaving the 9 to 5 grind, working on their terms, and unlocking new opportunities in the process.

But for some reason or another, you’ve been putting it off. And it’s probably some combination of procrastination, self-doubt, or lack of clarity.

Luckily, Close Your First Side Gig will get you to the other side. From dreamer to portfolio professional. From employee to independent. And once you’ll close your first side gig, you’ll close another one, then another one, and you’ll never look back.

Land your first side gig in 30 days.

Quitting your full-time job and main source of income is the worst thing you can do when you want to start working for yourself.

Giving up a steady paycheck, benefits, and stability for a dream?

No thanks.

Instead, you should start small and focus on landing a first contract. And instead of trying to land a high-ticket consulting gig, focus on landing one, small, project-based contract in your first 30 days.

With Close Your First Side Gig, you’ll focus on quickly finding and marketing this first project-based contract.

Ready to finally land your first side gig?

Here’s a full overview of everything you’re going to get access once you join Close Your First Side Gig…

The Close Your First Side Gig Course

Close Your First Side Gig is an online course teaching you:

The reality of landing your first side gig
How to market skills your already use daily
Tactical tips to find opportunities in your network
How to run sales workshops that close business
How to negotiate contracts and close your first side gig

And so much more!

Homework Assignments

Theoretical content can only get you so far.

But in Close Your First Side Gig, I’m making sure you can apply the learnings, one lesson at a time.

After each lesson, you’ll get a concrete, guided homework assignment, to make sure you take action.

You will use these assignments to take the concepts and apply them to your situation, and the problems you’re helping your customers solve.

Fill-in-the-blanks Notion Worksheets

With each lesson, I share a worksheet you can use to complete your assignments.

Each worksheet includes step-by-step instructions, a concrete examples, and additional resources.

Your worksheets can be used as your plan to close your first side gig (and many more after that).

Close Your First Side Gig Bonuses!

Over the past few years, I have worked with thousands of salespeople, mostly to help them book more meetings and close bigger deals.

And I have learned that some of my other resources have been extremely helpful in their journeys.

So, I decided to add them into Close Your First Side Gig… fore free!

Bonus #1: The Prospecting Tracker ($50 Value)

The Prospecting Tracker is a tool to help you:

Keep track of your prospecting
Get stats on your outbound and inbound prospecting
Stay organized when warming up your network for intros

I used this tracker for months when I got started and it helped me close over $120,000 in my first year.

Bonus #2: The Discovery Call Training ($99 Value)

The Discovery Call Training is a collaboration we did with Skip Miller. You will learn how to:

Run a solid discovery call
Find and quantify problems
Start and end your discovery calls in control

The content of this mini-course has helped me run better sales calls, and disqualify so many bad fits.

And it’s yours… for free!

Bonus #3: The New Outreach System ($149 Value)

The New Outreach System is a tactical guide to booking meetings on LinkedIn.

You will learn how:

I use LinkedIn to get a 38% reply rate, and an 11% meeting rate
To build your Ideal Customer Profile and find their problems
To reach out to prospects in a structured way
To navigate conversations to book meetings

And a lot more.

The New Outreach System is how I was able to book outbound meetings with prospects, while building my life as an portfolio professional.

And it’s yours… for free!

Stop overthinking.

Finally start working for yourself in 2024.

Question for you…

Are you tired of working for a crazy CEOs who thinks they are the next Elon Musk?

Or do you stay in a remote sales job you hate because you know you won’t find a better one out there?

Maybe you’ve tried working for yourself, but you failed miserably.

Or perhaps you spend your time wondering how complicated the bureaucracy, paperwork and the logistic are when working for yourself?

You’re not alone.

In fact, you’re just like 80% of salespeople I’ve surveyed on my website (and almost 100% of my friends who work in sales).

After going through Close Your First Side Gig, these problems will become a thing of the past.

And from there, some of you will land another side gig, and another, until you can finally work for yourselves.

Others will go on to build productized services, work from where they want, and free up more time to focus on what matters to them.

And you’re one click away from making the commitment to yourself to finally close that first side gig.

💻 Video course with examples, assignments, worksheets, bonuses, and more (with lifetime access).
📕 Templates, frameworks, and ideas to help you identify your skills, market them, and close your first side gig.
🗒️ Fill-in-the blank worksheets to apply your learnings and create your plan to get your first contract within 30 days.
📝 Homework assignments for each lesson, with concrete examples, and additional resources.
✍️ Leave with a customized plan to land your first side gig (while working full-time), dozens of new opportunities, and a strong understanding of the problems you can solve for your customers (and get paid doing so).
🎥 [LIFETIME ACCESS] to the course content
💾 [BONUS] The Prospecting Tracker ($50 value)
💾 [BONUS] The Discovery Call Training ($99 value)
💾 [BONUS] The New Outreach System ($149 value)

What people who work with me are saying…

Hi, I'm Thibaut Souyris

I’m a LinkedIn Top Voice, sales trainer, coach, founder of SalesLabs, and creator of this course, Close Your First Side Gig.

Back in 2018, I got tired of making other people rich. I had just started a new job as an Account Executive for a high profile Silicon Valley startup, and I was about to make a massive impact in their sales organization.

At least that’s what I thought.

After 5 months of useless meetings, office politics, and disappointing results, I decided to quit and bet on myself.

I started with consulting gigs, sales training and coaching, and I quickly realized that booking outbound meetings and generating opportunities was the one skill that allowed me quit my job, bet on myself, and build the life I wanted.

And that’s exactly what I’m showing over 40.000 followers to do. I help them book more meetings, generate opportunities for themselves, and build the life they want as a result.

If you want to become a highly sought-after portfolio professional, selling is a skill that will always be in high-demand (and pay well).

And this course will show you how. It’s based on my experience building a portfolio career, and working with salespeople at companies like:

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does this cost?

Other courses charge upwards of $10,000+ to help you start working for yourself.

But my goal with Close Your First Side Gig is to keep it accessible while still charging enough to keep you accountable.

The full price of the course is $199.

Is this a self-paced thing?

Close Your First Side Gig is an online video course. It’s a video-based course with lessons, homework assignment, and worksheets.

And you will have access to all of it forever.

So you can work your way through these as quickly or as leisurely as you want.

Couldn't I just do this myself with all of the free content out there?

If you could, you would have already. 🤷🏻

How long do I have access to the course materials?

Lifetime access!

What if I've never worked for myself?

Then Close Your First Side Gig is perfect for you!

I’ve created this program so that even complete beginners can get started and not get lost along the way.

What if I’ve been working for myself for years. Will this teach me anything new?

Out of the thousands of salespeople that have been through one of my programs, I can honestly say that not once have I had someone go through a program and say, “I didn’t learn anything new.”

Even seasoned portfolio professional and top-performing salespeople!

Close Your First Side Gig is everything traditional educational programs have no clue how to teach: the fundamentals of closing a side gig in 30 days.

Can I gift enrollment of Close Your First Side Gig to a friend?

Absolutely! And what a great gift indeed.

To do so, simply enroll using your email address. You’ll be able to set your friend’s address as the recipient of the course.

What commitment is required from me?

Again—I want to give you the flexibility to go as quickly (or as leisurely) as you’d like.

So, it’ll be up to you.

But Close Your First Side Gig is structured in a way where even people with full-time jobs and kids can still succeed.

If you can allocate ~30 minutes to yourself each day, you will be able to breeze through Close Your First Side Gig without problem.

Why I'm not offering refunds on Close Your First Side Gig?

I’m assuming that if you’re considering buying Close Your First Side Gig, then you likely have been following me on LinkedIn. I don’t run ads, so the chances that you’ve stumbled upon this product through some Facebook or Google advertisement is zero.

I’ve spent the last 6 years building a reputation online as someone who delivers tactical and actionable content. I have over 1.000 students, and less than 5 people asked for a refund.

This course is my best course if you want to take the first step to work when, where, and how you want. It’s packed with what I learned working for myself for the last 6 years. It’s the thing I wish existed when I left my full-time job.

This course is not for people who are on the fence. It’s not for “tire kickers” or folks who are just “poking around”.

It’s for people who are familiar with my work, understand how important quality is to me, and want to put in the work necessary to see the results.

If that’s not you, please don’t buy the course. If you’re just “curious” and want to watch a few lessons and quit, please don’t buy the course.

If you’re committed to the process and want to learn everything that I’ve learned over the last 6 years, there’s zero chance you’ll be disappointed.

Thank you for understanding.

Stop overthinking.

Finally start working for yourself in 2024.

One last thing…

If you’re down here, you might be thinking… is this really worth it?

And sure – you could go and stitch together all of the free content I’ve put out there on working for yourself. And you could use all that content to try and start working on your own.

But I’m guessing that if you’re on this page, and you’ve read this far, you’ve tried something like this before.

And the results… well… they’re not what you’ve been hoping for.

And since “work for myself” entered your to-do list (likely long ago), you’ve probably seen dozens of others do it successfully, leaving the 9 to 5 grind, working on their terms, and unlocking new opportunities in the process.

So here we are, 2024 has flown by. That blank page and crisp fresh start just a little bit away.

Now, wouldn’t it be magical to look back at the end of 2024, pointing to this exact moment, this exact decision, as the thing that led to an incredible, lifechanging year?

A new career, more time, a completely new personal trajectory, all of these are possible – all from that first side gig.

And it can all start right here, right now.

So, what do you say?

💻 Video course with examples, assignments, worksheets, bonuses, and more (with lifetime access).
📕 Templates, frameworks, and ideas to help you identify your skills, market them, and close your first side gig.
🗒️ Fill-in-the blank worksheets to apply your learnings and create your plan to get your first contract within 30 days.
📝 Homework assignments for each lesson, with concrete examples, and additional resources.
✍️ Leave with a customized plan to land your first side gig (while working full-time), dozens of new opportunities, and a strong understanding of the problems you can solve for your customers (and get paid doing so).
🎥 [LIFETIME ACCESS] to the course content
💾 [BONUS] The Prospecting Tracker ($50 value)
💾 [BONUS] The Discovery Call Training ($99 value)
💾 [BONUS] The New Outreach System ($149 value)

Still overthinking it?

Here’s a sneak peek of the what you’ll learn inside:

Close Your First Side Gig

Land your first side gig in 30 days.

Stop overthinking.

Finally start working for yourself in 2024.

What salespeople who work with me are saying…

The plan you need to finally start working for yourself

All remote salespeople who want to work for themselves face the same 5 problems:

The plan you’ve been missing

Get rid of your self-doubts

There are 3 self-doubts killing your independence:

Stop waiting for the right moment.

Stop dreaming. Start putting yourself out there.

Land your first side gig in 30 days.

Ready to finally land your first side gig?

The Close Your First Side Gig Course

Homework Assignments

Fill-in-the-blanks Notion Worksheets

Close Your First Side Gig Bonuses!

Bonus #1: The Prospecting Tracker ($50 Value)

Bonus #2: The Discovery Call Training ($99 Value)

Bonus #3: The New Outreach System ($149 Value)

Stop overthinking.

Finally start working for yourself in 2024.

You’re not alone.

What people who work with me are saying…

Hi, I'm Thibaut Souyris

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does this cost?

Is this a self-paced thing?

Couldn't I just do this myself with all of the free content out there?

How long do I have access to the course materials?

What if I've never worked for myself?

What if I’ve been working for myself for years. Will this teach me anything new?

Can I gift enrollment of Close Your First Side Gig to a friend?

What commitment is required from me?

Why I'm not offering refunds on Close Your First Side Gig?

Stop overthinking.

Finally start working for yourself in 2024.

One last thing…

Still overthinking it?

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