Foundry

Uri Weinberger left his big agency job, started his own Facebook ad agency, and grew his business to a 4-person team. Learn how he made the leap successfully, how he hires the right team members, and how he finds clients by helping people for free in Facebook groups and forums.

Links mentioned on the show

Adjust Media

Uri Weinberger on Facebook

In this episode, Leighton talks with Adam Vazquez from Strafire Media. Adam co-founded Strafire, a creative agency that helps business generates leads using websites, podcasts, and branded content.

Adam previously worked with Gary Vaynerchuck as part of VaynerMedia, Gary Vee’s digital agency. Adam and I talk about what led Adam to make the leap to starting his own agency and how Strafire uses content marketing to find their ideal clients.

Links mentioned on the show

Strafire Media

VaynerMedia

The Startup Show

The Six Figure Freelancer

Alex and Jenny interview

Ditching Hourly

The Stain ad

Uberconference

TeamGantt

Teamwork

Smartsheet

Adam Vazquez on Twitter

What does it take to earn six figures as a freelancer?

One vital component of building a high-earning freelance practice is finding clients who are willing to pay you what you’re worth. Everyone has seen those Upwork job posts where a client wants to pay the equivalent of less than minimum wage for a service like writing, design, or development.

So how can you identify the right kind of client to pitch — how can you find the clients who already have the revenue to justify paying your professional rates?

And what if you just don’t have enough business coming in. Is it possible to go out and drum up new business out of thin air?

My guests today would say… absolutely yes.

Jenny Beres and Alex Grizinski are both freelancers earning six figures plus per year, and they are experts on the topics of building the right mindset to grow your business and on how to find and pitch new high-paying clients.

• The Six Figure Freelancer (FB community)

• Six and Up: A Community for Freelancers, Artists, & Entrepreneurs

• Why Successful People Spend 10 Hours A Week On “Compound Time” by Michael Simmons

• Owler

• Overcoming Underearning: A Five-Step Plan to a Richer Life by Barbara Stanny

• The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday  

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Matt Inglot built a large agency with an office and employees, but ultimately realized that the long hours and office job were not for him. He transformed his company into a fully remote team that he now calls a micro-agency.

Matt has written a fantastic blog article called “Three Broken Freelancing Models,” and in this episode Matt walks us through those broken models and explains how you can avoid them.

Links mentioned on the show:

Freelance Transformation

Three Broken Freelancing Models (is this your business?)

Million Dollar Consulting

Matt’s interview with Allan Weiss

Book Yourself Solid

The 4-Hour Workweek

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Our guest today is Ana Gotter, who went from writing $15 blog articles to earning six figures as a freelance writer.

In this conversation, Ana and I dig into how she motivates her clients to refer new leads to her, resulting in 1 out of 3 clients sending her a new client. We also talk about how she goes about building relationships with her clients to the point where 94% of the clients who her hire once will hire her at least 3 more times within a year.

Whether you’re a writer or you provide some other service to your clients, I think you’ll find it really helpful to hear about how Ana has built her business on repeat clients and referrals, to where most of her clients now seek her out.

The Six-Figure Freelancer Community Facebook group

AnaGotter.com

Freshbooks

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