If you’ve been curious about how to attract the right freelancers and talent while keeping them engaged, this podcast episode is one you won’t want to skip over! While we’ve talked about talent acquisition before on the podcast, this one is going to be a very powerful and interesting conversation on attracting and holding positive relationships with contracted freelancers in your business. This episode will be especially helpful for those who work with multiple freelancers or plan on doing so soon. This week, episode 126 of The Digital Agency Growth Podcast is about freelancer acquisition! Watch our new recorded video training: Relationship-Driven New Business At-ScaleIn this episode of The Digital Agency Growth Podcast, Shahar Erez shares the importance of respecting your freelancers in the right way and actionable steps you can take right now to get the most bang for your buck when it comes to higher freelancers in your agency. Shahar Erez is the Co-founder & CEO of Stoke, an on-demand talent platform empowering companies to adopt a hybrid workforce model that scales as quickly and efficiently as needed. The platform provides a streamlined interface to make sure all your “non-employees” are operating according to policies, legal constraints and workforce classification.In this episode, Dan and Shahar discuss the following:How the requests to corporate positions of both Millennials and GenZers asking for flexible remote work led to the creation of Stoke, and how that led to a 9 figure deal with Fiverr. How freelancers were the first to be let go in the beginning of the furlough period during the pandemic of 2020, and yet the most capable group to rebound and get on their feet the fastest, compared to their corporate 9-5er counterparts.How agency owners have been going about hiring freelancers in the wrong ways, and ways to find and keep talented freelancers coming back to your agency.The potential for freelance hire and what tasks are best to hire a freelancer, as opposed to other tasks that would be best for an internal position and full-time employee. Whether you’re already hiring freelancers but retention is low, or you plan on hiring 20 freelancers over the next few years, this platform as well as this conversation is perfect to help you learn from the best and experience the reality of freelance retention.Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to follow, rate and review the podcast and tell me your key takeaways!CONNECT WITH Shahar Erez:LinkedInStoke WebsitePodcastCONNECT WITH DAN ENGLANDER:LinkedInSales Schema Watch our latest video training, How to Take Charge of Your Agency’s Future Revenue. During this training, you’ll learn how we get qualified appointments every week using tasteful and highly targeted email outreach.