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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.
John Locke on Bootcamp
Evan on Coaching
Jon Campbell
Jason Resnick on Coaching
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.
Johnathon Williams on Coaching
Elliot on Bootcamp
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Recent Posts
More Clear Suggestions from Rafal
A few weeks back I wrote about 6 tips the Overwhelmed Creative can use to get control again. In response to that my friend Rafal sent me some of his tips for bringing focus back to your life. Rafal runs Sandbox Rim and it’s a great site that I have in my RSS reader. Here […]
Shawn Blanc on managing photos in iOS
Shawn has a good post on what he does. I’m still not sold on what iOS provides for digital asset management. I’m trying out Pixave to handle my video files now. It’s working okay, but has some issues I’m trying to dig deeper into. If you’ve got other options to manage, tag, sort, find digital […]
My Daily Shutdown Routines in Things 3
One of the best things I’ve added to my productivity system lately is the idea of a daily shutdown routine. Currently I have one for the end of the workday shutdown. I have one for the end of the day house shutdown and a set for Friday shutdown and Monday startup. Let’s take a look […]
Tools to Stop Freelancer Feast and Famine
Over the years I’ve been helping freelancer’s the biggest question I get is: “How do I get clients.” The big problem that most freelancer’s run into after they get an answer to that question is they get busy. Then they don’t have time to do the marketing that works and they hit a point in […]
It’s sad when the ability to dream dies
I was filling up propane for BBQ season, yes some of you Americans will call it grilling, and the lady whom I paid laughed at my shirt. At first I thought it was because it’s got more than a few visible holes in it, but that wasn’t it. She made a mistake as she read […]
Specialization talk, fixing the problems of specializing on a platform like WordPress
Lots off good tidbits. Here they talk about the problem with specializing on a platform like CraftCMS or even WordPress. The boom will end and you’ll be in trouble. Here you hear when the research really started. He emailed 50 potential clients to talk about their problem. Here they talk about the importance of having […]
Build Your Saas on Budgeting
Build Your Saas on budgeting. This was a great talk on budgeting and how you think about your expenses. One of the keys is not to get stuck in a mindset either way. Just spending small amounts adds up and never spending can cost you with the time you put in.
Subscriptions can kill your budget
Here is a great illustrated guide to checking your Apple subscriptions from iOS. I didn’t have any I didn’t expect but I know my friend Jason recently did an audit of his recurring expenses and saved himself hundreds of dollars for the year. In my upcoming book The Freelancer’s Guide to Getting Started I have […]
Freelance Friday 031 – Nov 9 2018
This week the big thing is that my next book The Freelancer’s Guide to Getting Started is available for preorder. Get it now because the price is going up once it launches on November 27th. If you want to make sure you have your freelance business heading out the gate on the right foot, this […]
Should I Read It 032 – There is So much Good Reading Outside Business and Self-Help
Today we’re going to venture outside the business and self-help genre of books and look at a bunch of fiction and history books. There is so much good reading to be done, so don’t limit yourself. Find the written review here. This episode of Should I Read It is brought to you by my latest […]