Should Freelancers List Their Prices On Their Websites? I saw some guy online asking about how to get clients for his marketing business today. I’m pretty sure I’ve covered that elsewhere, so it’s an aside: But how are you going to run a successful marketing business where people pay you to get them clients when…
Newbie Freelancer Questions I couldn’t think of anything to write about, so I trawled Reddit looking for some questions I could answer. Here is a guy who has questions on freelancing: So we have three basic questions. With no formal qualifications, what do you do as a freelancer? What do you do about freelance…
How To Get Paid What You’re Worth People who are self-taught in business stuff make a lot of mistakes. I know this because I am one and have made those mistakes. Among the biggest is the idea that you intuitively know about pricing. You price your services based on their value to you or the…
How To Pitch Services To People Who Are CLEARLY Spending Money But Still Have Rubbish Stuff It’s 2018, and you want to live the freelance dream. You’re probably pretty good at something and possibly even good enough that people want to pay you for it. Bear in mind that people pay for junk from China,…
Dealing With Negativity In Business There’s a lot of talk about how treacherous and terrifying being in business for yourself is. Let’s address this in a simple two point or two action-step formula. We won’t beat around the bush, and instead we’ll get straight into it. Let’s cure any negativity you associate with business. Unless…
Dealing With Negative Clients And Customers Yesterday I wrote about how to dispel negativity from your business dealings. It’s a very important skill to develop, because if you get it wrong, then being in business for yourself can be a stressful experience indeed. If you get being in business for yourself correctly though, it’s pretty…
How To Deal With Project Creep Sometimes you get a freelance job where what you think is the job isn’t the job. You take on a simple job, and it seems to never end. It’s tougher than you thought, takes longer than you thought or the client just keeps adding stuff to the project and…
How to Deal With Clients Who Don’t Respect Your Time I have received a few questions over the years about high maintenance clients. This article is a summary of my thoughts on the subject. I’ve got a four-step plan to deal with high-maintenance clients which will solve all of your problems in this area. Before…
A Quick Guide To Financial Copywriting Financial copywriting is a lucrative copywriting niche. Some of the biggest direct marketing companies are based around financial newsletters. They have millions of subscribers and make tens of millions a year. There are also countless other opportunities and they pop up all the time. It’s an evergreen market and…
Should You Offer Your Services For Free? What If People Aren’t “Buying” That? Quite often, I’ll see variations on the question: “Should I offer my services for free?” The answer is almost always “no.” It doesn’t matter what your service is… free “customers aren’t the right ones to attract, their testimony isn’t valuable and you’re…