Tim designs and develops for local SME clients in his home city of Minneapolis. They all come thanks to the work he puts into establishing himself as a digital marketing authority both with blogging and podcasting. All that whilst refining his trade with work in an agency.

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Here’s some of the key takeaway points:

Working for an agency gives you experience that helps you in your freelance career: the processes, the client management

Create content for your site that helps your potential clients - not only does it place you as an authority, but if done regularly

Create longer form blog content (think of them almost as chapters of a book - maybe one day it will be!) - it helps provide greater value for longer and establishes you as authority

Reach out to people and see if they will link to your site or particular posts as those links help your SEO

Monitor the analytics of your site/blog so you can see what’s working well for you

Keep your time scales for projects realistic, with ‘air’ in them for flexibility

Think about what you want in your contract: how will communication

When starting out, just get your website out there and evolve it as

Try and get some clients to hire you on a retainer so you have a

Work/life balance should be what you want it to be: don’t get hung up

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