The Ultimate System For Automatically Qualifying, Scheduling, and Preparing New Project Leads Brennan has a great guide on how to setup a system to automatically qualify your inbound leads. The speed to reply hasn’t been a factor for me but making sure to do follow ups has helped land projects. Using Drip, most of that …
How habits can make freelancing easier
I’m going to take a quick break from discussing the marketing tactics to write about one topic that I’m passionate about. Habits. Wait, don’t go yet… Habits can be really interesting, but they comes with a lot of baggage. Much of that baggage comes from being critical about our bad habits. Staying out late, consuming …
Freelancing Digest Issue #68 – January 29th, 2016
Business development assessment Blair Enns has a quick quiz to evaluate your business development. Though it’s targeted at agencies, you can easily adapt the questions to fit a solo business. I scored 4/8 myself, mostly due to my repositioning work I’m in the middle of (I can see getting +2 or more once that’s complete). …
Going back to your homebase – Freelance Planning
Last time I used the analogy to Halo to describe how you need to adjust your tactics based on the map (environment). Today I’m going one step further to talk about your homebase. But let’s break away from that analogy. What I call your homebase, some people call your platform. Others call it your hub. …
Freelancing Digest Issue #67 – January 22nd, 2016
Planning your overall strategy One thing I make sure to focus on in my business is focusing :) Like everyone else I’m attracted to the new and shiny things but I put a lot of effort into making sure they don’t distract me from my overall business strategy. This focus is the best way I’ve …