Category: Issues

Freelancing Digest Issue #79 – Roadmapping, Sales

3 Reasons You Should Be Roadmapping I’ve been offering roadmaps to some clients for a couple of years now but with recent advice from Brennan Dunn, I’m considering moving them more to the forefront. If you haven’t thought about roadmaps yet and are considering them, read his 3 Reasons You Should Be Roadmapping article. Is …

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Freelancing Digest Issue #78 – Content marketing, High rates

Publish or Perish David Chapin wrote a great article that should convince you about the value of using content marketing to build trust. The especially interesting part is how he shows it’s been done for over three and a half centuries. Package and Position Your Consulting Services to Earn Higher Fees What would your clients …

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Freelancing Digest Issue #77 – April 1st, 2016

Don’t worry, no April Fools jokes in this issue, except for… ;) How to Create a Client Intake Process That Saves You Time and Headaches Kai Davis (no relation) has written a great process you can use to automate your client intake. I’ve done part of this myself, automating the first contact and lead questions, …

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Freelancing Digest Issue #76 – March 25th, 2016

Doubling Down On Double Your Freelancing Given the quality and quantity of training Brennan Dunn produces, his new focus on Double Your Freelancing should benefit every freelancer and consultant. Every Freelancer Should Have A Mailing List Having landed a four-figure client from my mailing list of under 100 people, I 100% agree with Paul Jarvis …

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Freelancing Digest Issue #75 – March 18th, 2016

Financial Independence For Freelancers Brennan has done a great job writing about planning for your financial future. Having a well-funded business emergency fund has let me: take 6 months off to build a product, take 5 months off to learn email marketing/copywriting/AdWords (and level up my marketing), and weather an unexpected tax bill that was …

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