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…
Today we’re gonna optimize your productivity to get you more high-quality output in less time. Deep work and productivity are both super-important for freelancers because they help you raise your Effective Hourly Rate (EHR) and create more time to work on your business instead of just in it. This post was inspired by Camilo’s goals check-in today in the Accelerator community — seeing it made me…
There are a lot of fancy techniques you can use to raise your rates. (And we talk about them at length in our free “Charge What You’re Worth” course and here on the blog) …But today I want to talk about a super-simple (and safe) rate-raising technique. Furthermore, you might be able to put it…
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👉 Want to join the Accelerator? https://dyf.link/dyfa 🎥 In This Video: Zach answers a student question from Ben in the DYF Accelerator community. Ben’s wondering if he should be adding a pre-discovery-call-questionnaire to qualify leads, or if the added friction might be a mistake for his current stage. 🔗 Things mentioned in this video: 📋 Table of…
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🎥 In This Video: You’ll learn how you can systematically raise your rates by using “lead flow thresholds,” and how you can use case studies and hard metrics to help you get past your imposter syndrome around raising your rates. 🔗 Things mentioned in this video 📋 Table of Contents:
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🎥 In This Video: Something that’s been coming up in the DYF Accelerator community a lot lately has been the concept of “scaffolding.” In community member Maia’s case, she came on to a one-on-one office hours coaching session with me in in the Accelerator to get my input on what turned out to be “premature scaffolding” for her. After chatting…