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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?
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!
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?
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
Michael Groh
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.
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.
Elliot on Bootcamp
Evan on Coaching
Johnathon Williams on Coaching
Jason Resnick on Coaching
Daniel Waters 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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Recent Posts
Why Do We Assume It Has to Be Crazy at Work?
The title of this post is the central question that Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hanson are trying to answer in their book It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work. Here is the two primary reasons they think that work has gotten so crazy. There are two primary reasons: (1) The workday is being […]
Scott on Why Products Fail
Great post from Scott on his new product blog. I particularly liked these parts. We only hear about the successes, and the founders make up some narrative about why they made it that is full of survivorship bias. Reading about why Facebook succeeded is not that helpful to someone starting out today. Almost all of […]
Getting Started with Statamic: Installing and Deployment Strategies
As I’ve started to dig into Statamic one of the first things I want to tackle is having a solid workflow and deployment strategy and unfortunately I’m finding a bunch of dead links to posts from developers from 2015 that haven’t kept their domains up[1]. While the the forum has a bunch of answers I’m […]
Best Long Term Research App
If you’ve been wondering I spent like 30 hours digging through apps and deciding which one was the best and under what situations it was the best. Well you can read all about the best Evernote replacement on The Sweet Setup.
Most of My Notebooks
Jamie shared a photo of his notebooks so here are the two images of mine that make up the backlog of older notebooks. One day I’m looking forward to the stacks that Austin Kleon has. You may wonder why. A few months back Jason and I were talking about notebooks and he was fascinated by […]
Extra Complexity Everywhere
I’m very much looking forward to the rest of what Jamie will write about…writing. Today’s start is a good rumination on writing getting so much more complex. I’m going through some issues around this right now as well as I try to get out of software lock-in so that I can have as open a […]
School Start Times Say We Don’t Care about Kid’s Education
I heard this first in When, but here is another article talking about how we have early start school times and they’re not the best for kid’s learning. American teenagers are chronically sleep-deprived. As children enter puberty, physiological changes delay the onset of sleep and make it more difficult to wake up early in the […]
Dan Lyons Looks at How Silicon Valley Makes Us Lab Rats
While “hustle porn” is on the way out as something that most people idolize, it’s at least worth wondering why we had some obsession with it anyway. This is where Dan Lyons comes in, specifically with a look at how Silicon Valley has been using workers as Lab Rats to change the way we work, […]
Brydge Keyboard for 12.9” iPad Pro
Like Frederico Viticci of MacStories, every time I have posted an image of testing my iPad Pro with the Brydge keyboard I’ve had some comment about a laptop. I agree with Viticci’s response: why turn an iPad into a laptop when Apple makes actual laptops designed for this purpose? And I have an obvious answer […]
I Only Work Part-Time
Like the author, I really only work part-time though I’ve managed to figure out how to earn a full-time income on maybe more than 30 hours a week. The reason a lot of people work full-time – though they’d rather not – is obvious: part-time jobs as they exist today are often pretty crappy, low-paid, […]