How do you land the $100k project? Watch this interview with Jose Caballer.

If you’re a freelancer, startup, or growing agency one thing you will always face is how to charge more for your work.

In today’s startup scene and rapidly growing WordPress ecosystem we hear how many of us are turning to a product business. No more trading time for money. No more client services and what color blue you should pick.

What if you didn’t have to stress when dealing with web design clients?

Nirvana you say?

In the latest episode of the MattReport I interview Jose Caballer founder of The Skool and The Groop to teach us how he started to land $100k+ projects.

Interview with Jose Caballer

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“I thought I had a tumor.” – Jose on client work

There were so many great points about client work that Jose brought up in this interview — but one that struck a chord with me was how it affected his health.

There was a time in his career that he constantly had headaches. Unsure of what was happening, he spent thousands of dollars to get himself checked out. The hospital and doctors couldn’t find anything.

Shortly after a project he was working on was over, the headaches vanished.

Coincidence?

I think this speaks volumes about the amount of stress we put on ourselves when we aren’t adhering to the right kind of client with the right process in place. These experiences drove Jose to start the Skool and deliver a set of process tools for all of us to learn from.

Throughout many of my interviews, when I ask “how do you deal with the $500 client?” the common answer is “find one that will pay more.”

I reali...