A stream of endless potential clients beating down your door is any freelancer’s dream. After all, it’s the uncertainty about when and where the next client will come from that causes us freelancers to feel desperate. …And it’s that desperation that causes us to… The solution to this is having a queue of clients waiting,…
Here’s something I try to always keep at the top of my mind… Clients don’t care about your service, they care about what they think your service will do for them. Most clients don’t really want to buy an app, or a logo, or a website, or some well-written text. What they want is the…
π₯ In This Video: You’ll learn the solution to “feast or famine freelancing.” If you implement these steps in your business, you’ll soon escape the “super busy or nothing to do at all” client work rollercoaster that’s all too common for freelancers in their first few years of being in business. π Things mentioned in…
π₯ In This Video: You’ll get a few ideas for how to get your first clients without being reliant on Upwork or other marketplaces, as well as strategies to set yourself up for client acquisition success in the long term. π Things mentioned in this video: π Table of Contents:
π₯Β In This Video: Zach brings you 3 quick tips to get more clients and earn more money as a freelancer. Implementing even just one of these tips can be truly transformative for your business. π Things mentioned in this video: π Table of Contents:
Today’s post is part 2 of a previous post that I recommend reading first: “Do you need to grow a team to earn 6 figures?“ Background info from that last post… In case you don’t want to read the previous post, here’s the TLDR… It’s all-too-common for under-earning freelancers to think that the solution to…
Today’s post was inspired by a challenge one of our DYF community members β let’s call him Sean β is experiencing. If you’re a freelancer who enjoys your craft (i.e. design, dev, etc.) and you’re thinking of hiring someone because you feel it’s your only option to get to the income level you want, this…
There are a lot of horror stories out there about freelancing. Freelancers are getting screwed over on websites like Upwork, they’re driving their prices lower when competing against others, and they’re investing hours into writing proposals β and only closing around 25% of those they pitch. (And often even less than that.) This isn’t sustainable,…
Value-based pricing is all the rage. “Ditch hourly!” and “Sell on value!” are stock responses on just about any Q&A thread on freelancer pricing β and these are themes I’ve written about here for the last decade. But longtime students of mine are quick to point out that I don’t personally always value-price my consulting. In my pricing course, I encourage many…
Today I’d like to, once and for all, answer a question that I’ve been asked hundreds of times. “Brennan, how should I bill my clients?” Hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, per feature, per project. There seems to be a limitless number of ways to charge your clients. In this post, I’ll outline the pros and cons of…