DYF Accelerator Community
Our premium community that gives you the support, guidance, and accountability you need to get out of your own way and grow an awesome freelance business / agency.
At a glance...
What is the DYF Accelerator?
The DYF Accelerator is a community of freelancers and agency owners who are committed to leveling up their businesses.
We meet every week in live accountability + goal setting video hangouts ("Accelerator Sessions" — sample agenda further down this page).
We also have...
🥰 Office hours Q&A with Team DYF,
🪄 Targeted masterminds,
💬 and a text-based community for you to connect with your fellow members.
Accelerator Sessions are held each Monday at 3 different times to accommodate ALL TIMEZONES!
Office Hours are held each Wednesday at 11am Eastern.
(And we've been lately been doing a bunch of bonus office hours too to support our members residing in Europe, Australia, Asia, etc.)
I'm a new member to the Accelerator but so far the value I received for my membership fee has been amazing. I feel like I'm getting the help I would get from a 10K+ mastermind at a small fraction of that price.
Meredith
Solo Biz Hacker | https://solobizhacker.com
What's Included with your membership?
The DYF Accelerator was designed to be your one-stop community to help you grow the freelance business of your dreams.
Included with your Accelerator membership:
✅ Included with your membership
🙋 Weekly live Accelerator Sessions
Community sessions to support each other, check in on goals, learn, and get help where you're struggling.
✅ Included with your membership
🏛️ Vault of all past Accelerator Sessions
Access to recordings of past Accelerator Sessions with searchable transcripts.
✅ Included with your membership
💬 Weekly office hours with Team DYF
Every week, we have live group + one-on-one coaching sessions so that you can get your questions answered directly by Team DYF in a more "deep dive, zoomed in on you" context than the Accelerator Sessions offer.
✅ Included with your membership
🪄 Targeted Masterminds
We regularly hold masterminds so that people working through similar topics can get support and keep each other moving forward. So far, we've had masterminds on...
- Niching/Target Market Selection
- Scaling, SOPs, Productizing, etc.
- Transitioning Out of Day Job / Getting First Clients
✅ Included with your membership
💬 Access to the text-based DYF community in Circle
Connect with your fellow freelancers & agency owners to support each other and forge relationships and strategic partnerships.
✅ Included with your membership
🤖 Access to the DYF Course Companion
Our smart automated accountability tool that keeps you on track with your goals.
✅ Included with your membership
🛫 Right of first refusal for in-person events & retreats
When we hold limited-seating live events, you'll get first dibs.
✅ Included with your membership
❤️ Cancel anytime & risk-free money-back guarantee
Feel confident knowing that you'll get a huge ROI from your membership.
I think the accelerator community is awesome because I get support and accountability from like-minded people who are facing similar problems.
Also, the idea exchange that happens in the mastermind sessions is amazing!
Alex Marinescu |
Alex Marinescu | Ruby / Rails developer | https://alexmarinescu.com
Our 100% Risk-Free Money-Back Guarantee
We're confident the DYF Accelerator will be huge for you and your business.
In addition to allowing you to easily cancel your membership at any time, we're also offering a 100% money-back guarantee on your first month of membership.
Simply join the community and if you don't feel you've gotten more out of it than you paid, email us at hello@doubleyourfreelancing.com within 30 days and we'll cancel your membership and refund your first month.
Frequently Asked Questions
The time commitment is flexible and depends on your personal needs and goals.
The "Minimum Viable Commitment" to keep yourself moving forward would be coming to one 29-minute accelerator session every 2 weeks.
(Every week would be better, but every 2 weeks is the minimum to keep yourself moving forward, IMO)
We also have weekly office hours, where you can pop in for a few minutes and get your questions answered.
And on top of that, we have the text community of like-minded freelancers supporting each other, which you'll probably want to spend some time in.
In an ideal world, I'd like to see members spending an hour or two in the community each week leveling up, and then implementing and working ON their business for 10 hours a week. (But for many, it takes time and schedule optimization before they can get there)
Note: all Accelerator Sessions are recorded and available for you to listen to on your own time while driving, pooping, etc. if you're low on free "dedicated time" and need to pair your community time with other activities.
DYF Accelerator is our premium community that gives you the support, guidance, and accountability you need to get out of your own way and grow an awesome freelance business / agency.
Whereas DYF University is our “all access pass” membership to all of our past and future courses for growing your freelance business / agency.
The Accelerator is best for freelancers who need support and accountability.
DYF University is best for freelancers who don't care about community or support, and just want the education.
Pro tip: if both sound good to you, take advantage of our bundle while it's still around to get access to both + extra savings!
The Accelerator Sessions are more like regular masterminds / community meetups, whereas the Implementation Intensives are targeted workshops with a focus on live implementation on one specific area of business.
So for example, we might do an "onboarding and automation" Implementation Intensive where we set up the emails, automated flows, write the messages, etc. — all done live to help people not put it off indefinitely. 😉
If you can't make the live sessions, no worries!
All sessions will be recorded and made available to members within the Accelerator community for you to review at your convenience.
We also transcribe all Accelerator Sessions so that you can easily search the transcripts in the Accelerator Session Vault and find support on exactly what you need help with.
You will have access to the DYF Accelerator community for as long as you keep your subscription active.
Yep!
We really appreciate your early support; it's going to allow us to dedicate a huge amount of time and resources to building out our "grand vision" of a complete and personalized education framework that takes any freelancer from newbie to dream business.
For as long as you keep your subscription active, we promise we will never raise the price on you — you get access to this huge early adopter discount for LIFE.
(Note: if you cancel your membership and later want to re-join, you'll no longer have access to this early adopter price.)
I mean, I guess I'm a little biased, but I say "hell yes!"
Think about it...
If the support & education you get here enables you to charge even a few dollars more per hour...
Or close even one extra project...
Or push yourself outside your comfort zone to implement some game-changing business growth strategy...
How long will it take for your membership to pay itself off?
(Probably not very long at all)
Never mind the fact that the skills you learn here will permanently level you up for the rest of your life.
Now that I say it, I think it's virtually impossible for you to not get an ROI on your membership. 😉
And remember, you can easily cancel anytime and you'll also get a money-back guarantee, so you can give it a try for a month totally risk-free and make the decision for yourself!
The DYF Accelerator community is for freelancers and agency owners who are ready to grow their businesses and benefit from a supportive network of like-minded professionals.
If you're committed to learning, improving, and taking action, this community is for you.
All it takes is one bad egg to ruin a community experience.
We're all at different stages of our journey, and we're all going to have hard days sometimes, but the DYF Accelerator has zero tolerance for trolls and assholes.
If you have frustration and anger that you need to vent by putting others down, this is not the place to do it.
The community is also not a good fit for those who are unwilling to invest time and effort into their business growth or those who are not open to learning and trying new strategies.
Yes!
I WISH something like this had been available to me when I started freelancing.
It would have enabled me to build a profitable business much faster.
Not to mention saved me $10,000+ in expensive mistakes and at least 500 hours of wasted time going down rabbit holes and "figuring things out the hard way."
(And it probably would have cut at least 3 years off of my success timeline, too.)
Being surrounded by people a little further along the path than you is a huge hack for accelerating your growth and avoiding common pitfalls.
Yes!
In my personal experience, the hardest part of working a job when wanting to freelance is that you're surrounded by people who don't "get you."
It's easy to feel like you're crazy or unreasonable for wanting more and not readily settling for the status quo.
By joining the DYF Accelerator, you're getting plugged into a community of people who "get you," and you'll be inspired and motivated by seeing everyone else making progress.
If you're still working a job and gearing up to go freelance, we recommend you pair the Accelerator with a DYF University membership to ensure you're building a solid base of knowledge before you strike out on your own.
(Pro tip: join the bundled membership of DYF University + DYF Accelerator for extra savings!)
And remember, we have a money-back guarantee, so if you join and it turns out you can't balance your job and your education at the same time, you're covered.
Yep!
As an agency owner, you likely have your attention pulled in a bunch of different directions and have constant demands on your time pulling you away from the things that truly move the needle.
Being plugged into a community is an investment into yourself and your business, and will help you keep a pulse on the stuff that really matters in your business, instead of you endlessly drowning in project fulfillment and working "in the business" rather than ON it.
We have a money-back guarantee and you can easily cancel at any time, so why not give it a try and see what impact it has on your business?
Yep!
The DYF Accelerator community focuses on the business side of freelancing, which is applicable across various industries and professions.
You can still benefit from the support, guidance, and accountability provided by the community, even if you don't share a profession with the other members.
In fact, by surrounding yourself with industries that aren't yours, you're getting a competitive edge in your industry, because most businesspeople are busy copying those immediately around them and consequently lose out on opportunities to implement things that work extremely well in other industries but aren't practiced in their own.
We have a money-back guarantee and you can easily cancel at any time, so why not give it a try and see what impact it has on your business?
After buying, you’ll get immediate access to the DYF Circle community, the past Accelerator Session vault, etc.
You'll receive an email with a video tour that walks you through the different features of the community, and you'll be able to immediately sign into the community and start forging connections with your fellow freelancers and agency owners.
You'll also get immediate access to the upcoming members-only events calendar so that you can RSVP for the next weekly Accelerator Session and office hours.
It sure is!
We're confident that the DYF Accelerator will be huge for you and your business.
In addition to allowing you to easily cancel your membership at any time, we're also offering a 100% money-back guarantee on your first month of membership.
Simply enroll in the DYF Accelerator and if you don't feel you've gotten more out of it than you paid, email us at hello@doubleyourfreelancing.com within 30 days and we'll cancel your membership and refund your first month.
⚠️ Warning ⚠️
To best support our early adopter community members, we're offering VERY LIMITED seating until we're sure we can safely scale while still deeply supporting each member.
So be sure to join fast if you're interested. 😊
As of May 6, 2023, we are 60% sold out of our 100-member cap.
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The "Why" behind the DYF Accelerator
Hey, DYF Co-Owner Zach here. 👋
I recently checked in with one of our DYF students to see how he was doing.
Here's what he said...
"It feels like I'm in a good-ish place, but I'm not seeing progress, so that's frustrating.
I'm still digging to get to the root cause but it's most likely some emotional self-sabotage. (i.e. impostor syndrome).
This is where I think being part of a community really comes in handy."
Does his situation sound familiar to you?
Where imposter syndrome comes from
For me, I've noticed that imposter syndrome comes as a result of pushing myself out of my comfort zone.
It comes in the period immediately following a radical mindset shift or new trajectory.
It's the "rubber meeting the road" when I go out and start trying to make my new dreams a reality and need to expand my belief systems in order to be successful with it.
Maybe you're familiar with Joseph Campbell and his concept of "The hero's journey."
(If you're not, you've surely experienced it first hand in, like, every movie you've ever watched.)
The way I see it, imposter syndrome is essentially the second, "Initiation", phase of the classic hero's journey.
Initiation. In the initiation section, the hero enters the “new world,” where they must begin facing a series of trials until they reach the climax of the story: the main obstacle or enemy.
The "Initiation" phase of Joseph Campbell's hero's journey
Here, the hero must put into practice everything he has learned on his journey to overcome the obstacle.
Campbell talks about the hero attaining some kind of prize for his troubles—this can be a physical token or “elixir”, or just good, old-fashioned wisdom. (Or both.)
Imposter syndrome is the "dragon you have to slay" in order to "get the treasure."
And you know what I've learned?
Slaying dragons is a lot easier when you've got people at your side who've slayed similar dragons before and can tell you the ways they were able to avoid the fire and whatnot.
(This metaphor is getting tenuous.)
The point is...
When you adopt a new mindset shift, the hardest part is putting it into action and cementing it into your reality.
The DYF Accelerator community is designed to help with that.
It'll give you a consistent source of...
If you're like most DYF students, when you're actively going through our courses that you enrolled in, you get excited thinking of all the possibilities.
...But then you go off to start implementing, and you're faced with a large gap between your current reality and the reality you want to create.
And depending on the size of that gap, it feel like an overwhelmingly large chasm.
That's where the Accelerator comes in.
The Accelerator will help you bridge the gap between your current reality and actually implementing all this new stuff you're learning.
It'll also make your freelancing life less lonely.
Loneliness and Isolation as a Freelancer
I've been running my freelance consultancy for 14 years now.
(Though most of my time is spent on DYF at this point.)
I also get depressed once or twice a year – pretty much every year – like clockwork.
It's honestly a bit baffling how it comes on so strongly and hits me out of nowhere.
"How TF is it that I can live a life with so much time freedom, schedule control, financial security, and interesting work, and *still* get depressed like this???"
— Indignant depressed Zach
It feels unfair when it happens, but zooming out, it also makes total sense.
We humans are tribal animals who evolved to be part of a community.
And as an online worker, I spend allllllll day...
Eeeeeevery day...
Looking at a screen.
And making decisions by myself.
In my isolated apartment.
...Cut off from the world and devoid of any deep sense of community or belonging.
(I guess this is why so many people were keen to get back to working in the office once COVID restrictions started to ease...)
The times when I feel best are when I'm connected with others who I feel "get me."
And I think that speaks to what's maybe the hardest part of setting out on some new path in life...
The loneliness.
When you decide to shake up your status quo and cast off into the unknown, you shrink the pool of people who "get you."
And when it's just you in isolation, it opens a big opportunity for self-doubt to creep in...
Making little whispers in your head about how this won't work for you, and you were crazy to think it would...
...Until one of the voices of fear in your head talks you into turning back.
Without having another voice in the mix who "gets you" and can come in and say, "no, you're not crazy, you can do this," it's all-too-easy to pack things in and quit — even when you were so close to reaching your goals if only you'd kept going just a little bit longer.
Enter the DYF Accelerator
The purpose of the DYF Accelerator is to plug you in to a community of people who "get you" and who are on a similar path to you, to help you...
All while helping you feel a little less alone in the process of growing your business. 🙂
And remember, there's a 100% risk-free guarantee, so you have nothing to lose.