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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?
Elliot on Bootcamp
Daniel Waters on BootCamp
Mitch Britt – Bold Eye Media
Curtis will help you understand the value in your work, so that you can start charging what your worth. My biggest mistake was not hiring him sooner
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.
Jon Campbell
Evan on Coaching
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.
Jason Resnick on Coaching
Michael Groh
Johnathon Williams on Coaching
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Recent Posts
If You Haven’t Planned Where You’re Going You’ll Hate Where You End Up
How do you set goals and then pull them down into weekly and daily actions? How do you take all the ideas that buzz through your head, and get the vital few done? The first thing you need is a set of filtering documents. When I start a new notebook I do the regular Bullet […]
Are you looking past the top layer?
From Seth Godin: The thing is: 90% of the strawberries in a quart are hidden from view. They’re beneath the top layer. There’s no strategy to tell which quart is better than the other, unless you (erroneously) believe that the top layer is an accurate indicator of what lies below. Where are you only looking […]
Work, family or social life
From Austin Kleon: Work, children, or a social life. You may pick two at a time. (Nobody wants to hear this.) I choose work and family. My only social life currently is the runs that one or two people want to come on. That has meant large numbers of friends I no longer hang out […]
Freelance Friday 010 – June 15 2018
As I’m working on my next book called Finding Focus, I have some questions for you dear reader. If you’ll please help me out and answer these 6 questions so I can make sure the book covers topics that are relevant to you. Believe it or not, this week I started looking at Fiverr after […]
Should I Read It 019 – The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F_ck
Today we’re going to need to look past a bit of profanity and dive in to why Mark Manson says we care about way too much. Purchase The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F_ck on Amazon Written Look at The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F_ck This episode of Should I Read It […]
More Hours is a Lie – The Amount of Work You Can Do is Constant
Rather than scrambling to meet an impossible deadline, work to your normal pace. The amount of work you can do is constant — the only real question is which work to do. – Extreme Programming I had a coaching client who worked every weekend. He always felt like he couldn’t get ahead so kept spinning […]
Content Mills are just like Upwork and Freelancer
Maddy Osman has a great look at content mills. All the same points apply to freelance market places. It’s the pickiest clients for the lowest prices and you often can’t take the work outside the freelance job platform so you’re only building a portfolio on said platform. If they decide that you’re no longer wanted, […]
More thoughts on alcohol excluding people from conferences and networking
Further thoughts after this post. What if you’re at a place where you must be legal drinking age we are saying that the only people worth meeting are 21 (in some states). That’s hardly the truth. We are also excluding anyone that has struggled enough with alcohol in the past that they can’t be around […]
Opting Out of WordCamp “after” because of alcohol
Things I’ve realized in 45 days of not drinking Higher education runs on booze. It’s remarkable how many events involve free alcohol and how much socialising after other events involves alcohol I’d say similar things about the WordCamp’s and other tech conferences I’ve been to. I have nothing against drinking but I’m a 1 beer […]
Since Yearly Goals Suck, Here is the Alternative
If yearly goals suck, in that they’re way too long and you can’t stay motivated towards your goal for 12 months, what do you do? The alternative that I use, and my coaching clients use, to much better effect is quarterly goals focused on actions. Quarterly Plans Are Better than Yearly Goals A quarter is […]