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Planning to Scale Your Practice to a Business
In our final episode, our panel talks about scaling up, whether you should and how to do it.
Resources and Career Development for Freelancers
In this episode, our panel talks about how to improve your career when you're working on your own.
Knowing When to Fold 'Em: When Should You Do Something Different?
In this episode, our panel talks about knowing when to fold, knowing when to stop freelancing, and try full-time.
Handling Conflict with Clients
In this episode, our panel will be discussing everything you need to know about handling conflict with clients.
Customer Service and Client Retention 101 for Freelancers
In this episode, our panel will be discussing everything you need to know about Customer Service and Client Retention.
Accounting and Finance 101 for Freelancers
In this episode, our panel will be discussing everything you need to know about accounting & finance.
Pricing 101 for Freelancers w/ Jonathan Stark
In this episode, we will be discussing everything you need to know about pricing with our guest, Jonathan Stark.
Engagement Negotiation 101 for Freelancers
In this episode, our panel will be discussing everything you need to know about contracts and negotiating over them.
Sales 101 for Freelancers
In this episode, our panel takes a deep dive into sales for freelancers. Once you're done with marketing, how do you actually start the sales funnel with a client?
Marketing 101 for Freelancers
In this episode, our panel takes a deep dive into marketing for freelancers.
Positioning 101 for Freelancers w/ Philip Morgan
We talk with Philip Morgan, coach & author of 'The Positioning Manual for Indie Consultants', about specialization & positioning - building a defensive advantage aroun...
Preparing Your Freelance Practice: Laying the Groundwork
In this episode, Erik & Reuven share how they got started, what they would do differently, and things to keep in mind when you're actually starting up your practice.
Freelancing 101
We'll be discussing Freelancing 101. What does it mean to be a freelancer? Is it for you?
Climbing the Value Chain & Growing Your Biz
How can you grow your business as a freelancer? Our panel discusses the different paths to grow your business, hiring a team, climbing the value chain, and aligning yo...
Building Processes & Productized Services with Brian Casel
We talk with Brian Casel, entrepreneur and creator of ProcessKit and Productize & Scale, about how to create systems that bring order to your business and how to produ...
Using YouTube as a Marketing & Promotion Channel
Thinking about using YouTube for marketing, promotion and audience growth? Our panel talks about our experiences using this channel and what we'd recommend for people ...
The Elusive Work-Life Balance
We talk about the struggles we face with the ever-present puzzle of balancing work and life as freelancers and indie consultants and the strategies and mindsets we've...
Getting Freelancing Leads 101
Where can you find leads in the short term if you're in need of work now? What are strategies you can use to find better quality leads? We answer those questions and ...
Money Psychology & Playing the Long Game with Alex Hillman
We talk with Alex Hillman about lessons for freelancers and indie consultants from his recently released book, the Tiny MBA. Alex drops a lot of wisdom in this episode...
Making Sales Less Painful Through Marketing
Today we'll be discussing sales and marketing and how to use marketing to improve the sales experience as a freelancer.
Writing Sales Pages
Sales pages. As a freelancer or indie consultant, when does it make sense to use them? What's their "job" for your business? How should you approach writing them? How ...
Building Credible Expertise
Our panel chats about what building expertise and becoming an expert looks like as a freelancer or indie consultant and some steps you can take to better build and dem...
Decision Making with Annie Duke
We chat with Annie Duke about her new book How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices, in which she teaches how you can improve your decision making process...
Proposals 101 for Freelancers
Today our panel chats about proposals — including tips, techniques and tactics we've seen that makes the difference as you grow from freelancer to indie consultant and...
Communicating with Your Clients
We're chatting all forms of client communication / account management this week, how to get better at it and make it less awkward — even enjoyable — for everyone invol...
Onboarding New Clients
Our panel dives into client onboarding — what it means, how we've approached it in our businesses, and how you can customize and improve your onboarding over time.
Diving into the World of RFPs with Dave Hulsen
We talk with Dave Hulsen about the wild world of responding to Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and why you may (or may not) want to consider diving into it.
Bad Client Spidey Sense (The Freelancer Tingle)
Our panel discusses signs that client isn't worth taking on and how you can guard against bad fit clients, saving yourself time and headaches in the process.
Exploring Burnout
We're going to talk about our experiences with burnout, what are the non-so-obvious signs of burnout, what's worked for us to buffer against it and how we make sure we...
Using Profit First in Your Freelancing Business with Baz Baruah
Our panel talks with Baz Baruah about Profit First — a cash-management system for your business designed by author and entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz. We discuss using ...