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I'm Tired of Not Having Freedom
I'm sure you had a dream about your business, but is it happening? Are you getting the clients you want for the rates you deserve?
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I Want to Stop Struggling to Make Ends Meet
You're working hard and landing clients, but it's still a bit paycheck to paycheck. It doesn't have to be!
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Man, I never get to see my family which sucks
Busines is going fine, but when was the last time you got to see your family? Last date with your wife?
Rumen
I’ve been writing way too long proposals, winning just 30% of them. Even if a proposal led to a contract, I was still charging way less than I needed. Freelancing was barely sustainable for me. Curtis and I had one call where he explained how to talk to prospects to find their value. He showed me how to build out a winning proposal with less effort. After applying his advice my next client went for my highest priced option that was double their budget. The coaching time already more than paid for itself within 2 weeks.
Evan on Coaching
Jon Campbell
Flynn
One 15 minute call with Curtis helped me realize my worth to a client and gave me the confidence to ask for it. With that confidence I was able to negotiate a 30% higher rate per month on a long term contract. If I hadn’t talked to Curtis I would have left thousands of dollars on the table.
Daniel Waters on BootCamp
Johnathon Williams on Coaching
Michael Groh
John Locke on Bootcamp
Jason Resnick on Coaching
Elliot on Bootcamp
Deep Content
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Accomplish more of worth and suffer from less distraction: Deep Work by Cal Newport
Sure, Slack is great. So is Twitter, and Facebook. I loved it when OSX added iMessage as a core part of their operating system, giving us the ability to send and receive messages. With all of these things added to my life at no point did I realize how lean I was slicing my time. […]
What is the most in demand freelance skill that will remain in demand?
So you’re looking at freelancing and want to know what the most in demand freelance skill is. I get it. You want to do something that people will find valuable and continue to find valuable. Something that will last for years so you can become a specialist and charge well. PHP is quite popular and […]
How I Modified The Bullet Journal System to run my Online Business
A few weeks ago I gave you a primer on what Bullet Journalling was so that you were familiar with the ground rules of the Bullet Journal system. Now, some parts of it I loved and some parts of it, just didn’t seem to work for me. Today I’m going to walk you through the […]
Here are the Keys to Getting Focused Amazing Work done for Freelancers
We’ve spent the last few weeks talking about getting your deep, focused work done in the midst of all the distractions that are thrown our way. A friend of mine inspired the series as we looked at his work in the midst of needing to deal with support. Today, we’ll go over the essential elements […]
Supporting your Entrepreneurial Spouse
This week for our blog series you guys get to listen to a new voice. I’ve been the “behind the scenes” person in Curtis’ business from the beginning and when we were talking about starting to run a series of posts on his blog every now and then he asked me if I would be […]
Getting Unstuck: The Pieces You Need to Make Your Freelance Business Successful
When my oldest daughter started to read on her own it took so much concentration. Every single word involved 120% of her attention. She’d start to sound out a word, get close and guess and then ask me because it wasn’t quite right. I’d tell her what word she was searching for and she’d go […]
Why Comparison is Killing Your Business and How to Stop
There is an interesting study that says we’d rather make $30k a year knowing that everyone else makes $28k than make $36k knowing everyone else makes $38k. This seems crazy to me because in the second scenario we are making $6k a year more. But the research doesn’t lie. It’s been done over and over […]
Recent Posts
How I Do Web Development from my iPad Pro Full Time
Blink Shell
this support Mosh
yes I’ll do a better review of this on it’s own later the point today is to put it all together for you
I had already used Vim and a bunch of Unix tools, so moving it all to Digital Ocean wasn’t a problem
You can see my Vim config on Github
Yes I’ve turned on TouchID to keep my terminal secure just in case it’s signed in to something and I leave my machine on it’s own
Also, if you want to compile Blink Shell on it’s own you can because it’s open source
Dash
this handles all my documentation
show people the search
show people how to download more docs
and yes, I’ll dig back into this later for you
Ergo WebTools
when I had the rest of this ready, I was struggling with iCab and Firebug
I guess that works, but dang is it terrible so it really doesn’t work
Ergo WebTools for a small upgrade will give you so much power in the form of a full view source and then a proper console
Coda
a decent FTP client (but I need to dig deeper on this)
it allows cowboy coding if you want that
but it doesn’t allow full project searching like I get with Vim
Digital Ocean
you’ll need to install Mosh (yes I’ll cover that for you)
other than that, you’re just running a Linux machine headless so it’s whatever you want on that machine and if you screw it all up, just destroy it and start over
Summary
by going with this setup, even if I spin up a $5/month server I’m way under the cost of a new MacBook Pro, or any Apple computer
I can get the iPad for $449 in Canada if I needed to replace my setup tomorrow
Creative Breakthrough is Powered by Time Off Work
The most creative and most productive workers are the ones who are able to unplug from the office, recover their mental and physical energy, and return to their work recharged. – Rest My latest book The Art of Focus launched August 28th and do you know what I did just a bit before the launch? […]
Technology and personal connectivity
I have wondered for a while about how technology connects us, or maybe just makes us seem connected. This article explores some of that. Here are some parts that stood out to me. A recent survey of 20,000 Americans found that almost half suffered from loneliness, which now qualifies as a chronic public health problem. […]
Don’t manage problems, remove them
From Darius Foroux: When something distracts you, don’t waste your effort trying to manage it. Instead, do yourself a favor and get rid of it completely. For example, if social media apps on your phone distract you, remove them from your phone. Don’t bother setting time limits, no one is so strong to resist the […]
Maybe keep your day job says Justin Jackson
Good podcast exhorting us to maybe not go all in but keep something on the side. While you may have a dream, maybe you need to keep working the main gig to fund that dream.
Freelance Friday 028 – Oct 19 2018
This week has been a great week. Some new video equipment is in which you should see in next week’s show on YouTube if you watch it there. Also a new keyboard is in which means no more wires and I have a full ergonomic keyboard. Content wise, I finished out the rewrite of an […]
The “productivity hack” of doing what you enjoy
This is an interesting thought about getting more done, maybe only do stuff that you enjoy. I try to do that, which is why you see so much writing from me. I enjoy writing and do it when I have the options of doing other things. I’m starting to do videos on iOS productivity, and […]
Justin Tadlock Turns off Comments
And another person turns off comments. If you come to this site, you’ll clearly see I still have them on. Most people don’t use them. I’ve rarely encountered the assholes of which Justin speaks, and I never deal with the spam. Akismet takes care of it for me so I don’t even have to worry […]
On Switching Productivity Methods
So Trello has some real science based reasons you may switch productivity methods and tools before the benefits really stick. I think that it comes down to wanting to have some magic bullet to solve the problem of feeling overwhelmed because you couldn’t say no in the first place. Set better boundaries, and keep following […]
Talking with Matt Medeiros about choosing a job after leading an agency
After talking with Adam Warner a few months back I’ve had a number of people reach out to say that they enjoyed the interview and Adam’s perspective on moving from Foo Plugins to Sitelock. Today we’re continuing in the same vein as I talk to Matt Medeiros. Matt is a founder of Slocum Studios along […]