If you want to engage people online and build trust with others in your marketing you have to be willing to reciprocate.

The internet is becoming reduced to content marketing, email sign ups, and who can use the most growth hacking tactics in order to build an audience they can monetize so that they can continue to tell others why they're the guru of monetization. This is the short term and in the future this will not work.

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If you've been blacklisted by a client what can you do in order to restore the relationship and turn the blacklist back into client revenue? We dive into the possibilities on this episode of Traffic Talk

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The Internet is experiencing a shift and the shift is leaning towards authenticity meaning that who you really are will be exposed. It seems like every week there's a news story brakes that reveals some type of a hidden secret about a celebrity. Some people are shocked but what is really happening is their true character is being revealed. They can no longer separate who they are from how they want people to perceive them. The same goes for building a creative business, to be successful you're going to have to embrace the fact that you have to be completely honest about who you are where you are in your business where you're trying to be on your level of skill.

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The freelance landscape has become crowded, but there’s still a chance to be successful if you know how to stand out from the rest. How do you freelance in 2018? If you are going to survive as a freelancer in today’s climate, you have to choose a section of the creative process to combine your creative skill with a business skill.

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Question: 

How do you cover payment and banking fees?

Answer

To directly answer the question, it would be wise to adjust your rate to consider any banking or payment fees. Whether you are using PayPal or some other service a payment processing fee is going to be anywhere between 3% and 8%. Banking fees tend to vary a widely primarily if you're working internationally with your client base and exchange rates come into play.

Though you could adjust your pricing to consider payment and banking fees, there's something larger here that is going on. As a creative professional not only do you need to adjust for payment and banking fees, but you also need to consider what you want to take home at the end of the year.

When you take into account taxes that will occur at the end of the year, this changes the conversation. Not only do you need to account for banking and payment fees you also need to consider for state tax, country tax, VAT as well as any sales tax that may be a part of the process. This means you have to ask yourself the question: "when I am working with a client what do I want to take home each client?"

You can see an example of this in episode 35 of the freelance jumpstart TV podcast called pricing for profit. In this episode, I dive into this specific topic but as a quick and simple here's something to consider.

This means if I wanted to take home $80,000 at the end of the year I would need to make $104,000 which is 30% more then initial take amount of $80,000.

For this episode of Traffic Talk the question comes from a reddit user who is looking to answer a question about scope creep: When Does a Fix Become a Change?

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You made it. If you're reading this, then you have the opportunity to witness the first question and answer episode for Traffic Talk. This question is from a Reddit user who asks: Is it possible to freelance while you have a full-time job?

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I am finally back to creating videos on a weekly basis. I plan to make more content this year than I have previously.

Reviewing 2017 and my goal going forward. Episode Notes: http://freelancejumpstart.tv/2017

Since 2014 I have written yearly reviews, and they've been helpful. The goal of the annual review is to help me time travel. The only way I'm going to remember my train of thought, my goals my successes and failures is to Read a blog post from my previous self.

I want to keep these reviews public so others can learn key takeaways from my year and also use them to implement in their own business.