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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?
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Elliot on Bootcamp
Johnathon Williams on Coaching
Daniel Waters on BootCamp
Evan on Coaching
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
Jason Resnick 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.
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.
John Locke on Bootcamp
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Recent Posts
Keyboard nerds take a look
Brett Terpstra at least initially likes that Ultimate Hacking Keyboard. I like that it splits but not so impressed that it doesn’t have any angle adjustment for ergonomics. I’m still using the Kinesis Freestyle Solo V2 happily. I had the V1 out of the drawer for a few weeks recently and it’s still great. I […]
Freelance Friday 019 – August 17 2018
This week has been mostly off for me. Monday was taking my middle kid in to the hospital for further tests and such for her GI issues. More tests are scheduled. Tuesday through Thursday my wife worked a bunch and since it was one week in the summer we decided that I’d just take the […]
Laptopless @macsparky
So David is doing another experiment with no laptop. I’ve mostly gone Macless now. Web development with my iPad and a VPS. Audio recording and editing on the iPad. Next week I’ll talk more about why I think that traditional desktop UI is less productive and why iOS is better. Few weeks you’ll get a […]
How do you build a Story Driven Company?
A few weeks back we looked at how to have a brand that stands out, one that has no competition because it’s just different than the rest. While there was lots of good in Badass Your Brand, it felt like it was lacking to me in some of the “how” metrics. How do you communicate […]
Should I Read It 028 – Story Driven by Bernadette Jiwa
Story Driven by Bernadette Jiwa is all about helping you tell your unique story in a way that stays true to who you are. Purchase Story Driven on Amazon Written review of Story Driven by Bernadette Jiwa If you’ve been struggling with focus, then my next book The Art of Focus is for you. In […]
Do You Schedule Time for Social Media?
I encountered this question in a Slack channel recently: Do you schedule time for social media? The short answer is no, I don’t schedule time for social media. social media is so much more noise than marketing now social media is not good creative work social media sucks your time away from stuff you should […]
App addiction?
Instagram is a photo sharing app that has over 800 million users. Its users can take a snapshot using the app camera and share it with their followers. What makes Instagram so addictive is that the app itself also has a number of filters that the users can apply to their images to make them […]
You need support at home
For you to achieve extraordinary results, the people surrounding you and your physical surroundings must support your goals. – The ONE Thing According to Shawn Achor, in The Happiness Advantage, the biggest predictor of success through hard times is the support you have around you. Achor was looking at the workplace and hard projects, but […]
It’s not the algorithms that need fixing, it’s us taking control back
So so much this from Cal Newport: We don’t need to convince YouTube to artificially constrain the effectiveness of its AutoPlay algorithm, we should instead convince users of the life-draining inanity of idly browsing YouTube. When we just let the algorithms take over for us we give away so much of our responsibility. We get […]
Freelance Friday 018 – August 10 2018
This was a busy week. I got edits in from my launch team for The Art of Focus. I started laying out the book and getting it set for print. I should have the print proof late next week. We’re totally on track to get this thing launched well. Don’t forget to keep an eye […]