Freelancing Digest Issue #90 – Feast or famine, All the marketing

How to Beat the Feast or Famine Problem in Your Business

The best time to prepare for a work famine is yesterday and the second best time is today. Corey has five strategies to put in place to prevent and beat a famine.

Do You Really Have To Do ALL The Marketing Things?

It seems like every week I’m told I "have to" get on some new marketing platform or try out a new tactic. It starts to get overwhelming after awhile. Naomi from IttyBiz has some great advice about how to combat marketing overwhelm.

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Quick Links

How to escape the single client trap as a freelancer (ryanwaggoner.com)

How to Build Strong Relationships with Clients in Another Time Zone (shopify.com)

How to Grow From Freelancing to Founding Your Own Agency (shopify.com)

Why DYFConf Europe Was The Best Thing Ever (And You Should Have Been There) (doubleyourfreelancing.com)

Ghosted: What to Do When a Client Doesn’t Pay Up (freshbooks.com)

Don’t underestimate how lazy your clients are (philipmorganconsulting.com)

Why You Should Bill 100% Up-Front (shopify.com)

Podcasts

How much should you spend improving your business? (curtismchale.ca)

Freelance Transformation #69: Quit Your Day Job and Freelance with Matt Olpinski (freelancetransformation.com)

Freelancers Show #208: Hanging with Buyers (devchat.tv)

Productize Podcast: Selling a Productized Service to Enterprise & Speeding Up Sales Cycles with Mike Taber (productizepodcast.com)

Thanks, I’ll see you next week

Eric Davis (@edavis10)