hurriedly drinking my soup before my liege lord has me thrashed for not toiling hard enough pic.twitter.com/1zoFrMSnCa
— eel "skill issue" enthusiast (@cheascake) July 4, 2023
Most of the freelancers that email me for advice aren't struggling to get clients.
— Rachael Pilcher | SaaS Copywriter (@MightyFineCopy_) April 10, 2023
They're struggling with OVERWHELM š
* Where do I find clients?
* How do I know they can pay my rates?
* Should I send cold emails?
* How big does my portfolio need to be?
* All my stuff isā¦
Clients: "It's so hard to find good freelancers." Freelancers: "It's so hard to find good clients."
— Brooklin Nash (@realBrookNash) April 3, 2023
After my 1st startup, I went shopping for a nicer car to satisfy 12 years of delayed gratification.
— Matt Wensing š (@mattwensing) March 30, 2023
Audi: *joins me on test drive, 'so what price are you looking for??'*
BMW: "It's got a full tank of gas and there's a country road 1 mile that way. Have fun."
Sell like that.
Every time I rewatch this video, I get goosebumps.
— George Mack (@george__mack) October 18, 2022
The scale of the internet is impossible for the brain to understand. pic.twitter.com/Sj1U7YEYiw
The secret to solopreneurship is boring: find the thing you love to do, and do it for many years.
— Kyle Kowalski (@KyKow) March 16, 2023
Iāve been told:
— Joel Klettke (@JoelKlettke) August 21, 2022
$750 is too expensive for a case study
$1,500 is too expensive for a case study
$2,000 is too expensive for a case study
$3,500 is too expensive for a case study
Iāve had excited buyers at every single one of those points who felt they were getting a steal.
Most engineers who make $250k out of college at FB or Google doing 30hrs/week could probably solve a dynamic programming problem but couldnāt ship their own static blog in a week.
— Deedy (@debarghya_das) August 11, 2022
If your primary source of income is from one job and you have a single boss who controls your fate, you are vulnerable
— Larry Cornett (@cornett) August 8, 2022
New to freelancing in 2022? Excited? Good!
— Joel Klettke (@JoelKlettke) December 29, 2021
Remember: the people who tend to do the best arenāt always the best at their craft.
Theyāre often just better at running a business and marketing themselves.
Yes, you need skill, but thatās rarely enough alone.
Need to put together an elevator speech? This is always an excellent place to start! pic.twitter.com/irvYa6QBIG
— Wendy Bohon, PhD š (@DrWendyRocks) August 5, 2022
It's true that believing that "money is not inherently evil and it's okay for other people to give it to me" has made it much easier being a solopreneur
— Michael Ashcroft (@m_ashcroft) April 12, 2022
It means I feel good about charging reasonable prices for what I sell, no one really minds, and I can keep making things https://t.co/6xzehLJxe6
The average person thinks having a job is safer than entrepreneurship.
— Barrett O'Neill (@barrettjoneill) July 24, 2022
They're wrong.
Here are 9 reasons to bet on yourself:
I want to start a Mastermind group for other techies who are founding their own startups? So we can study, share resources, ideas, podcasts, advice and support each other and have like a mini book club. DM me if interested?
— Taeālur Alexis (@TaelurAlexis) December 31, 2018
9-5 jobs are comfort money.
— Your Friend Andy (@OhHaiAndy) July 5, 2022
They give you just enough money to make it hard to leave.
Then you buy a car, buy a house, and have kids. Then it's just too much risk to leave the job.
Next thing you know, you blink, and you're 60.
once youāve articulated a genuine vector and you present it properly to the world, things start getting wild. People start emailing and DMing you relevant information out of the blue. The world around you becomes your research team and support crew etc
— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) March 31, 2022
Dear freelancer,
— Brooklin Nash (@realBrookNash) July 1, 2022
Stop requesting payment via Venmo or PayPal.
It's not professional.
Full stop.
1: open a business bank account
2: sign up for an invoicing tool that allows you to accept payments via ACH and credit card
3: send your invoice
I just like to pay the ActiveCampaign bill and shake my head and say 'one day maybe' and then go back to being a completely useless idiot
— Joel Klettke (@JoelKlettke) March 9, 2022
$500 client: i wanna make sure we're getting our money's worth so please send over your exact timeline breakdown for each milestone of this two week project and the expected results, also any chance we could get a 30% discount?
— Brooklin Nash (@realBrookNash) June 27, 2022
$50,000 client: proposal signed, thx
Looking to carve out more time on your schedule and curious what to delegate next?
— Wes Bush (@wes_bush) March 5, 2022
Start with what you have been procrastinating on.
We all avoid things that take away energy.
The freelancer urge to take 30% off every pitch before hitting send because OH MY GOD WHAT IF I NEVER GET WORK AGAIN
— Brooklin Nash (@realBrookNash) June 27, 2022
For those skeptical of LinkedIn engagement rates…
— Rand Fishkin (@randfish) July 30, 2021
13,200 views in <24 hours! pic.twitter.com/uD4bJ9aPgm
Coffee is for posters
— š (@deepfates) June 26, 2022
#CSS
— Stef Walter (@WalterStephanie) August 13, 2021
CSS nesting (yes, like in Sass) is coming, here is what you need to know and be careful about, by @kilianvalkhof
https://t.co/iyLTTUtYh8
Accepting that:
— nihilism disrespecter (@meaning_enjoyer) June 18, 2022
1. I need a project;
2. I don't have the skills or expertise in a domain for a genuinely creative project right now;
3. I need to get my life on track in a bunch of really dull normie dimensions (health, family, finances) before I can look for a project
Need the images from a Google doc someone has sent you?
— BARRY (@ClareBarry) September 14, 2021
File > Publish to web > Get link > Paste link into new browser > Drag all and any images onto your desktop at full resolution, no matter how big they are presented in the Google doc > Profit
Thank me later. Or now.
if you have a lifelong therapist, your therapist is not good
— avery (@averykimball) June 8, 2022
If your client tells you 'you're a fucking delight to work with' where on your website should that go? š
— Adrienne Sheares (@AdriSheares) September 16, 2021
A bit of conviction I have that Iām not sure Iāve articulated strongly:
— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) March 31, 2022
If you want to make it in a market as a creative, an artist, whatever, you have to be able to āpresent a vectorā.
which is a way of saying, āhereās what Iām doingā, in a way that has a sense of direction
pro tip if u are ābrokeā and āunemployedā u can fix this by just rebranding yourself as an āentrepreneurā
— Ben (@BenRatkaj) October 25, 2021