Build a Thriving Business and Spend Time With Your Family
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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?
Jon Campbell
Elliot on Bootcamp
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.
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.
Johnathon Williams on Coaching
Jason Resnick on Coaching
Michael Groh
John Locke 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
Deep Content
If you're looking to go deep into marketing, or focus, I've written at length on many topics. Get Ready to dive in.
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Recent Posts
Freelance Friday 038 – January 18 2019
Today is the last day to get this Google Analytics Course from my friend Cinthia. I went through it and it’s great. This week was my first real productive week back at work for 2019, and even then my wife has been sick so I’ve been doing a bit more around the house than usual […]
So you want to write
Or really, do anything well Kris Gage has a thought when someone asks him what the secret is: And right as I start to wonder if they Might Be On To Something Here, I go check their post history, and half the time I see that they rarely write. So I then I point out […]
A Good Look at our changing ideas of dad
From daddilife: In 2018, among a slew of statistics about the changing realities of fatherhood, it was revealed that dads spend three times more time with their children than their grandfathers did. And Research finds that dads are just as likely as mums to say that parenting is extremely important to their identity. Dads are […]
iOS Podcasting with Ferrite Recording Studio
If you’ve been looking for an awesome recording and editing app for podcasting, then you can end your search with Ferrite. Note, I didn’t even qualify it as an iOS app, because it’s just awesome all around. Much better and faster than what I was using on my Mac. I covered it in more detail […]
Dealing with Sickness and Running Your Business
The first week back at work didn’t go as planned. I got sick, then the kids and my wife got sick. I spent the first week…mostly not working instead of making all the progress I had originally hoped to make. Today I talk about how I try to prioritize my tasks to get the essential […]
Joe has an all access pass
It’s only $399 and includes a bunch of stuff. If you’re looking to get better at: Podcasting Creating Online Courses Gutenberg Beaver Builder PHP Then you should grab this all access pass while it’s around. Also, Joe is awesome and a fellow iPad first person so….he’s extra awesome.
Should I Read It 040 – The Art of Focus
Today’s show is just a bit different, with my friend Adam Tuck taking over and reviewing my book The Art of Focus. I’ve edited it for audio quality, and left the content intact. Enjoy.
Not the only one doing iPad Web Development
Eric in Laravel News: The idea of working entirely from an iPad has always appealed to me. The portability, the battery life, and of course the touch screen makes it an excellent device. The downside is that everything is sandboxed. You can only run programs from the App Store which makes doing crazy things like […]
12.9 iPad Pro Homescreen 2019
I’ve been doing my iPad life on a 9.7” iPad Pro for my iPad fist workflow. Yes it worked. Yes I found that I was more focused with the iPad Pro and think that iOS is an operating system that lends itself to focus over traditional desktop systems. The constraints it brings had me publish […]
Asian Efficiency – Importance vs Time
Thanh writing at Asian Efficiency: Grab a piece of paper and draw down a line in the middle of the paper. On the left, write down 5 things that are most important to you (order does not matter). Done? Now on the right side, write down 5 activities you spend most of your time doing […]