Coaching series: Can Zach get this beginner freelancer (Maia) to a 6-figure income ($8,333/mo) within 6 months? Hint: Yes! This kickoff interview for the series was actually shot AFTER it was over! In this kickoff interview, Zach and Maia look back on her biggest lessons learned, and explain the coaching series you’re about to follow…
In this episode, Zach talks to Josh Starr from https://joshstarr.co Josh has started several different agencies, each of which gets clients from cold email. (He also has an agency where he does cold outreach for other agencies — how meta eh?) His various agencies have generated over $2.3 million in lifetime value, and they’ve worked with…
In this episode, Zach talks to Bo-Peter Laanen from https://blaanen.com/ Bo-Peter is a marketing coach and founder of Growth Marketing Hub. He helps course creators grow their businesses by leveraging AI for content production, marketing, and SEO strategies. On today’s episode, Bo-Peter talks about how to utilize AI for automation and optimizing your workflow. You’ll…
In this episode, Zach talks to Kim Swagemakers from Kimpact, about her experience going from employee to freelancer to a productized agency owner. On this episode Kim shares her insights about immersing yourself in client pain points to inform your trajectory, choosing a niche based on past products, finding good productized service ideas, building automated…
In this episode, Zach talks to Jesse Hanley from Bento – the email marketing tool. In today’s episode, you’ll find out how Jesse went from solo freelancer to scaling a 25-person agency, then selling it all and starting a SaaS email marketing product. Jesse talks about the challenges of scaling an agency including client lead…
In this episode, Zach talks to Joana Galvão from Gif Design Studios. Joana Galvão is the co-founder of award-winning design agency Gif Design Studios and a leading business coach for ambitious creatives who want to take the shortcut. Based in Porto, Portugal, her agency specializes in brand identities and conversion-obsessed design and serves industry leaders in…
In this episode, Zach talks to Delia Monk from www.deliamonk.com. Delia is a copywriter who used cold outreach to earn over $100K in her first year as a freelancer. She goes deep into her cold outreach philosophy and approach that can help even new freelancers start booking clients today. She also shares her email template she…
In this episode, Zach talks to Prerna & Mayank Malik from Content Bistro. They run a small copy agency that does over $600k a year in revenue with just them and a small team of contractors. They’ve worked with big names like Pat Flynn and featured on Forbes, SPI, and more. One of the cool things…
In this episode, Zach talks to Nicolas Cole from The Premium Ghostwriting Academy about how he scaled his 7-figure agency with cold outreach. If you haven’t heard of Nicolas Cole, he’s a ghostwriter-turned-agency-owner-turned-product-course-creator-biz-owner. He is the co-founder of Ship 30 for 30, the largest cohort-based writing course on the Internet; Typeshare, the leading platform for…
Today, Zach’s talking to Brennan Dunn about his various freelance and agency transitions. If you somehow don’t know who Brennan Dunn is, he’s the dude who started this whole DYF thing. 😅 He started as an employed developer… Then side hustled as a freelancer… Until it was doing enough revenue that he quit to go…