Actionable, info-packed talks.
The Double Your Freelancing Conference (#dyfconf) is a single-track conference that’s focused on helping freelancers and agencies grow their businesses.
You’ll learn from some of the brightest minds in the industry — which includes the all-star speaker lineup we’ve prepared for you. Each talk will give you a handful of actionable to-do items that you can incorporate immediately into your business. And because all of our speakers are attendees also, we’ve mixed in plenty of time for discussion during meals, between talks, and in the evenings for you to get all your questions answered.
Day 1
Japanese BBQ
We’ll kick off the conference by feasting on some amazing Japanese BBQ on the Yasuragi’s outdoor terrace.
Day 2
Breakfast
Join your fellow attendees and speakers for an incredible breakfast buffet.
Dr. Sherry Walling
Origins, Identity, and Befriending your Future Self: Psychology Hacks for Freelancers
Dr. Sherry Walling returns to the DYFC stage to help you protect your most important professional asset- yourself. Focusing on the importance of a healthy identity, Sherry will offer strategies to help you minimize the professional derailments caused by both self-doubt and self-inflation. Looking at past, present, and future, she’ll outline key strategies to help you formulate a healthy perspective of yourself and your work.
Shai Schechter
Why Clients Buy
Do clients make rational buying decisions based on what we’re selling? Or could simple changes to how we communicate influence whether they buy? Learn what’s really going on in the minds of our clients, and how a few simple tweaks to what we say and do can make all the difference in closing deals.
Lunch
Let’s keep the conversation going and talk about what we learned during the morning sessions.
Jane Portman
How to Craft an Irresistible Productized Consulting Offer
Productized consulting is a magic pill for a lot of problems: unpredictable client behavior, scope creep, hourly billing. In this talk you’ll learn how to craft an irresistible offer, defeat typical client objectives, write the perfect sales page, and strategically plan your entire product line.
Mojca Mars
Growing Authority: How to Open New Doors with Social Media
Increasing your rates, closing deals with high-paying clients, connecting with some of the biggest industry influencers, landing speaking gigs, and getting contacted by podcast hosts and other media outlets. You can achieve everything on the list with a single asset — authority. But how to grow it? How to establish yourself as one? Mojca is going to show you how to utilize social media today to establish yourself as an authority and get the key you need to open the doors of several opportunities that are waiting for you and your expertise.
Sean D’Souza
How To Increase Prices (Without Losing Clients)
The moment you decide to raise prices you’re fearful that clients will leave in droves. Is there a scientific way to increase prices consistently? And how do you get the client to prefer your higher prices (even when you have lower priced options)? Learn a system that anyone can use in less than 15 minutes to increase prices safely and consistently.
Japanese Dinner
We’ll all enjoy another amazing outdoor dinner and keep the discussions (and libations) going into the wee hours of the mid-summer night.
Day 3
Breakfast
Join your fellow attendees and speakers for an incredible breakfast buffet.
Rob Walling
From Consulting To Running A Product Empire
Description coming soon 🙂
Karin Taliga
Feeling Like A Fake – Strategies For Dealing With Impostor Syndrome
Ever fear the day everyone else will find out that you have no idea of what you are doing? Feeling like a fake is not the same thing as being one. Learn more about the Impostor Syndrome and get some strategies for dealing with it. The fact that you are still learning doesn’t mean that you don’t know anything.
Lunch
Let’s keep the conversation going and talk about what we learned during the morning sessions.
Brennan Dunn
Freelancing Systems
How can you make your business an actual business, rather than a job? What can you do to build repeatable, reliable systems that allow your business to thrive — even when you’re on holiday or otherwise distracted (like, at an all-inclusive conference in Sweden?) In this talk, I’ll present a step-by-step framework you can use to automate your freelancing business.
Implementation Time
For the next few hours, you’ll work on your business. By the end of the conference, you’ll have created something of value that will help strengthen your business. Brennan and the speakers will be there to personally help you during implementation time — and don’t worry if you don’t know what you’ll be working on, we’re going to help you with that 🙂
Japanese Dinner
We’ll all enjoy another amazing outdoor dinner and keep the discussions (and libations) going into the wee hours of the mid-summer night.
Day 4
Breakfast
Parting is such sweet sorrow. And even though we’ll all be leaving the resort, the conversations and networking will continue on in the DYF Slack account.
It was one of the best experiences of my career to date.
