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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
Johnathon Williams on Coaching
Daniel Waters on BootCamp
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
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.
Michael Groh
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
Deep Content
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Recent Posts
After work there is still all the chores to do for working families
From Screentime Age: At three, most families choose Community preschool programs, which often only run for two hours a day. Kids go to another child care provider after this. Then when parents come home after working a full day they are still left with all of the cooking, cleaning, laundry, and housework to do. Schools […]
Chances are I won’t come back to contribute to WordPress again
From Daniel Jalkut: I don’t think the WordPress team is bad, by any means, but I think this is a “team smell.” When somebody comes to your project with a well-thought-out, unit-tested fix, and is met by radio silence? The chances are high that they will never come back again. I have submitted WordPress patches […]
Freelance Friday 056 – May 24 2019
This week has been a big content week. I wrote a few posts for Liquid Web, and one for Godaddy. I also started to dig into DEVONthink 3 more for macOS and it’s a highly compelling piece of software for storing your notes and other files you want to keep track of. Check below for […]
Productivity is not cranking more widgets
Enjoyed this post by Mike Schmitz. In particular this quote. Productivity is not cranking more widgets. Productivity is not doing all the things. True productivity is saying “no” to the things that don’t matter so you can say “YES!” to the things that do. I think that NO is the most productive word you have […]
Some Remote Work Stats
Interesting survey on remote workers. Here are some highlights for me. 60% of remote workers work fixed hours. So that’s a typical 9-5 job and while the post talks about the benefits of working in your PJ’s, they don’t mention that many of these people drop a huge commute. If I had to drive into […]
Two notes on a decade of remote work
I found both of these posts and realized that I have also crossed a decade of remote work recently. 99% of that time was spent working for myself with no official “boss”. Let’s pull some highlights, first from Tom’s article. It takes a certain type of person to be able to work remotely for long […]
The “full-stack” developer doesn’t exist
Another good post on “full-stack” developers. In effect, we have allowed the “full stack developer” term to frame the debate. We should not. It is a term that defines something that doesn’t exist – cannot exist because it is an impossible standard. Check out his list of requirements for “full-stack” then ask yourself if you […]
I hate the term “full-stack” developer
I like this post from Chris Coyier. This quote in particular. A full-stack developer on that stack means you know Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. (Abstractly: server software, web server, database, back-end language.) This site runs on that stack, and I’m solely responsible for its development, so I guess I’m a full-stack developer in some […]
Watch me Upgrade my 2019 Mac Mini to 32GB of RAM
Instead of paying Apple $240 for 16GB of RAM or $740 for 32GB of RAM I got some aftermarket RAM from Crucial and the tools to make the change myself. That cost me a grand total of $350 including the expensive iFixIt toolkit to replace my mishmash of tools that have accumulated over time. Yes […]
Freelance Friday 055 – May 17 2019
This week I made great progress on The Freelancer’s Guide to Niche Marketing. My original plan was to have it out in Q1, which has clearly been missed. I was caught up in other projects and not feeling the book so I didn’t worry about it. I’m happy to say that I’ve got back into […]