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  • FS 317: Working on Your Business
    Panel:
    • Reuven Lerner
    • Jeremy Green
    In this episode of the Freelancer’s Show Reuven and Jeremy discuss “Working on Your Business.” The discussion covers several topics on how you as a freelancer can carve out time to work on your business. Both Reuven and Jeremy mention how you can learn to start building and maintenance your business for events like retirement and longevity. This is a great episode on learning how to continually stop and take control of tasks your business needs to grow. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 0:50 - Reuven opens the show by describing what skill are need to be a freelancer and finding the time to work on your business. Jeremy chimes in on trying to find time to work the business by putting time away for business maintenance work. 3:10 -  Reuven talks about when he tries to find and fit time into working on his business, like on the train. Jeremy talks about how tasks are sometimes overlooked and take the back seat. But getting a team to help might be the answer to working on your business. 5:00 -  Reuven talks about possibly blocking out time during the week or month to work on the business. Or working at night, or before bedtime. Reuven talks about removing the junk and squeezing in the tasks and working on the business. Jeremy talks about juggling client work and building in a business, and how one might want to raise rates to compensate the time. 9:00 -  Reuven talks about setting a goal for your income, and raises the question about pension. Revenue task about being satisfied with your income. Reuven talks about a conference with Rob Walling and how Rob talked about buying back your time. 13:30 -  Reuven and Jeremy discuss thing you should do after carving out time for working on the business. Jeremy talks about reaching out and expanding for other kinds of great opportunities. 18:00 - Reuven talks about how he likes to expand the business into American companies to grow. Reuven continues with creating products or courses to work on the business. Jeremy mentions how he continually works on the engine of the business, so he does not dread the last two months of the year for paying taxes. 22:00 - Reuven and Jeremy talk about important paperwork they need to get in order to prepare for taxes and documentation. Reuven says another avenue to working on the business is going to conferences or consuming video or blog content to sharpen your business skills. 27:00 -  Jeremy mentions creating and doing content marketing in various forms such as blogs, articles, guest writing is another way to market your product and services. Reuven talks about taking care of your website as a way to develop your business. 29:00 -  Jeremy mentions writing proposals and taking on project work as another way to develop your business. Jeremy says even though the tasks is time-consuming it is a great way to gain more work. Reuven mentions listening to podcasts as a way to learn more to develop your business. Sponsors/affiliates
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    38 min
  • FS 316: How to Target Management or the C-Suite as a Freelancer
    Panel:
    • Erik Dietrich
    In this episode of the Freelancer’s Show  Erik, discuss “How to Target Management or the C-Suite as a Freelancer.” The discussion covers how to develop an offer or pitch, and understanding the pain points for leadership roles, and offering value to help them in their business and getting hired. Erik provides several great tactics to warm-up the C-Suite to get a job. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 1:02 - Erik talks about targeting the manager or C-suite for freelancing. Erik talks about speaking to your peers but not the C-suite, or selling your peers in salary positions. 3:00 -  Erik talks about falling into his practice of selling your skill to peers. Erik reminds us that your buyers are not your peers, but the people who have the money to buy app development. Management or the C Suite. 5:00 -  Erik breaks down the buying system for tech or application development. Eric continues with vetting. Erik talks about the role of Line Management and their power to spend money on services. 9:33 -  Erik talks about the Director role and their power to hire and sign off on hiring. This is important to target that right person to get hire for a job or contract. Erik shares on how to approach each of the composite buyers, VP, CIO and or Line Manager. 12:00 -  Erik talks about approaching the VP for a job, but offering a compelling reason to be hired. What does that look like? Erik talks about getting in front of these people with hiring roles. 14:00 -  Erik talks about constructing your pitch. But using a persona to help develop your pitch for a job. Erik share the importance of a niche and cross referencing with those who are in the hiring position. 17:55 -  Erik says to understand these people with the hiring role. Next is to understand their pain points in their line of business. Erik continues with explaining new role taken by C Suite. How do you approach people in these new roles? 21:55 -  Erik mentions how to approach the leadership personnel with tactics to help or lift them in their positions to get hired.  Erik call this developing an offering to the leadership. Getting in to their head, and understanding their pain points. 24:00 -  Erik say another important point to understand about leadership’s point of view is understanding what doesn’t matter to them. Find out what interest them, and gets them promoted. Erik gives suggestions on how you should view and help their point of view in their role as a leader. This helps you get hired. 28:00 - Erik shares how to target the C Suite in some social setting and find out what interests them in their field of business.  Erik shares about refining your elevator pitch and getting an appointment. 30:00 -  Erik shares tactics assuming that you appeal to the leaders and gain their interest. Erik talks about letting them know you want to pick their brain. 33:00 -  Erik talks about developing your outreach and creating emails focused on them. Make the email about them and understanding their pain points.  35:00 -  Erik shares about warming up that leaders seeing who you know in the business. Also asking for referrals and reaching out to other for a second degree introduction. 39:00 -  Erik talks about humanizing the leaders and understand their roles and helping their pain points. The way to target them is not to waste their time. Sponsors/affiliates
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    46 min
  • FS 315: Late Paying Whale Clients
    Panel:
    • Jeremy Green
    • Erik Dietrich
    In this episode of the Freelancer’s Show, Jeremy and  Erik, discuss “Late Paying Whale Clients.” The discussion covers how to assess situations where you are not getting paid on time in your freelancing business. Jeremy and Erik cover a number of common situations and how to navigate your way to getting paid and avoid further unfortunate situations. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 0:50 - Erik and Jeremy talk how to handle late paying client who is the major part of your income. Jeremy suggests ways to avoid the situation by determining a time of when payment is collected. 2:50 -  Erik says this is a right of passage for a freelancing way of employment.  Erik says this is common in freelancing. Jeremy share story with working in an agency and friendships on the line. 6:14 -  Erik shares a story about doing 10k worth of work and not getting paid. This want due to management changeups. 7:00 - Erik talks about asking them why you are not getting paid. Jeremy says this may be due to not getting to know everyone in the business and getting the invoice to the right person who responsible for paying invoices. 10:30 - Erik says it is important to get the invoice to the right people because invoice sent to the CTO might not be high on his the priority list. Get it to accounts payable or find out who accounts payable are. 13:30 - Jeremy says to recognize the difference between late payments and laggy payments. Erik talks net 10 or net 30 payments. 15:40 - Jeremy talks about stopping work and getting some kind of payment on late paid invoices. 17:28 - Erik talks about how some clients play games to keep putting your invoices off. Erik talks about techniques to de-prioritized work for the client to understand they have unpaid or late payments.  20:30 - Jeremy mentions knowing your worth. Erik talks about possibly talking legal actions. But asks Jeremy about how he handled not getting paid from a client who owed 80k. Jeremy shares a story on how he structured things to take the lost. 24:00 -  Erik talks about thing to do to avoid legal actions. Jeremy shares how he switches to upfront payments. Jeremy explains his explanation to employers for upfront payments. Erik talks about asking them to put some skin in the game or sharing the risk. 29:00 - Erik talks about getting push back and adding fees to those who push back on upfront payment.  Jeremy talks about discounts to upfront payments. Erik talks about how these strategies are about de-risking your payments. 31:00 - Erik mentions another strategy to tack on 5% late charge and mention to the client that it is accounting thing. This should serve as a reminder that they are late. 34:00 -  Erik says this might be a sign to avoid working with whale clients. Jeremy says you might want to get several smaller clients and having multiple sources of income. 36:00 -  Jeremy continues with how to get paid upfront with reengagement with an old client. Jeremy says to look for the structural flaws int system and get new people in the company to help you get paid. 37:50 -  Erik says to hope is not a strategy and try to figure out where the issues is to get paid. Jeremy continues to understanding when to pull the plug on working for this kind of client. Sponsors/affiliates
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    43 min
  • FS 314: Starting Freelancing While Employed
    Panel:
    • Jeremy Green
    • Erik Dietrich
    In this episode of the Freelancer’s Show, Jeremy and  Erik, and discuss “Starting Freelancing While Employed.” The discussion covers important topics on how to properly or successfully moonlight and transition into full-time freelancing while increasing your incoming and clients. This is a great episode on learning the ins and outs of moonlight on the side while maintaining a full-time job. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 1:00 -  Erik kicks off the topic about freelancing while you are employed. Erik starts with the questions form a forum form his place of work. Erik talks about the idea of moonlighting 2:00 - Reviewing your employment working about noncompeting work or conflict of interest to avoid restrictions. Jeremy says you should definitely check with the employment agreements. More talks about signing papers on agreements as a freelancer. 5:00 -  Jeremy talks about working with clients who want you to sign non-complete work or anything in the industry or nature of the work. Erik about work at Hit Subscribe. Erik shares more about working with the company to reform the agreements. 8:50 - Jeremy and Erik talk about moonlight on the “clock” which is a big issue and non-compliance. Jeremy continues to talk about the issues of doing this under the rader. 10:30 -  Erik talks about doing a bad job at your full-time job because of moonlighting. Don’t do it while you are at the office. Erik talks about people at the office who know you are running a side business and how to let it be known properly. Make sure your niche is not conflicting with your employer. 14:00 -  Jeremy talks about stealing clients from your employer and how that can cause employment issues within the full-time company. Jeremy talks about transitioning from employment to freelancing. 18:00 -  Erik talks about bargaining for perks over salary for time or freedom to freelance with your full-time job. 20:00 - Erik shares about signing with the company or letting your employer know about your freelancing work. This will allow you to do more if it is out in the open on social media and Linkedin. Jeremy talks about this could hinder your freelance marketing. 22:00 -  Erik talks about masking your identity with a brand, or working under a brand to keep from your employer from knowing about your side hustle.  24:00 -  Erik says if freelancing is going to be serious, then freelancing has to be out in the open with your employers. Erik asks Jeremy about when to know to make the switch to freelancing. Jeremy shares about his strategy and mistakes in making this transition. Jeremy talks about working with loan money to fill that gap and building his business. 28:00 -  Erik shares about making his jump from full-time salary to freelancing. Jeremy talks about mistakes in full-time salary and comparing that to freelancing work. How do you adjust the hourly rate or salary? Jeremy says this is selling your night and weekends. Jeremy says you will need to work on your business, not in your business. Jeremy also says you need to make more freelancing. 32:00 -  Erik talks about the pricing of service and freelancing work. Jeremy talks about delivering values to the client. Erik talks about experience and moonlighting within the company. 35:00 -  Erik talks about how freelancing on the side is going to mean more time working. Do what you need to do side hustling, but don’t make it a problem.  Jeremy shares about his agency and how they handled moonlighting within the agency. 40:00 -  Erik talks about kind of acting as an agent and bringing in moonlighting work. Erik says this is set up is not very common. 43:00 -  Make sure your contractually ready to moonlight and don’t charge too little is the takeaway. Also, have a bailout condition. Sponsors/affiliates
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    Jeremy
    • Remarq - Now with emoji support 
    43 min
  • FS 313: When Your Clients are Wrong
    Panel:
    • Jeremy Green
    • Reuven Lerner
    • Erick Dietrich
    In this episode of the Freelancer’s Show, Jeremy, Erick, and Reuven discuss the topic, “When Your Clients are Wrong.” The panel gives practical advice on how to work with different client/work situations that may not be ideal. They suggest to think about the situation logically, have a conversation with the client, and try to work out a win-win situation for both sides. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 1:16 – Let’s introduce this topic a little bit more softer than I did! 1:34 – After giving your clients some new / different options and they still aren’t satisfied. 1:58 – This is so difficult and delicate b/c it’s easier when you don’t need the money. If you only have 1 client or a handful of clients they are they only ones you can rely on for your income then it’s a lot harder and worse. Many times if a client asks you to do the wrong thing sometimes you can leave, but sometimes that’s not always realistic. If you can walk away if it really is horrible then maybe you can. You have a solution to a problem (you know how to solve this problem!) and your client says, “no.” What then? 3:59 – For me, the arrow in my quiver would be I believe in this so much let’s try it for free and run an experiment, if that’s a cost concern. 4:45 – You are willing to invest in it? 4:53 – Nothing is coming to my mind right now. For my blogging business... If it were years worth of blog posts than I wouldn’t do that for free. 5:47 – When I was doing consulting projects I would recommend: we should store things this way, or...Sometimes my clients will say “NO” this is not the way I want to do it. I was working with a company in Tel Aviv, and I wanted to have a bunch of different columns in the database. The CEO was like you are using all of those columns?! Right, that would work if you were living in the 1960’s! I presented my case to him, but it was the beginning of the end. He still saw himself as the CEO but also a brilliant software guy he didn’t want me second-guessing his brilliant decisions. 7:51 – It’s worth throwing it out there – you always do have the option of going on with idea. Pick your battles – live to live another day. 9:05 – If you come in and say: “I am right and this is why...” they will not go for it. It’s not good to win that argument. Kind of tease it out – let’s look at time and cost. Maybe overtime the customer will see what you are trying to do. 10:02 – It’s a good opportunity to say: Let’s take a step back and see the goals of this project. Maybe we have a mismatch of what our goals are or the current state of the project. I thought you were concerned about X but I see now that you are actually concerned with Y. I see now – maybe I misunderstood your situation. That could help the client refocus. 11:29 – They brought on this team of 40 people in Rails and then realized nobody knew Rails. I had a blast, but the way it worked if something wanted to change something then they would do a change request to the... Panelists go back-and-forth. 15:49 – “I hope I am wrong” mentality might be better than: “Man that is horrible, you are going to fall down on your face.” He talks about a credit card issue and showing that this case had to be implemented with this specific client/company. 18:00 – Advertisement – Digital Ocean! 18:41 – There is a wide range of “wrongness” where clients aren’t in the best place and the level of “wrongness”. We aren’t going to steal a logo for you. Are they asking you to do something wrong or is it a difference between 1% to 2%? 20:20 – This would be a better play vs. something illegal vs. something in-between. If a client is trying to roping you into plagiarism don’t do it. 22:08 – You can say I am turning down this work b/c we won’t be a good fit or I really can’t fulfill what you want me to do and that work can come back to you from another avenue. 22:50 – If you just can’t find anything else, but I know there are people that specialize in x, y, and z. They will finish the work better than me and I would recommend these people for those reasons. They respected that. 23:42 – Blood money – I wouldn’t want to help you for the specific reasons. People will respect that b/c they will see that you have their best interest at heart. Panelists continue to go back-and-forth. 25:47 – Was the client a cheapskate?  26:57 – Engaging with a client and see where they are. Predict future 28:05 – I have a client with a small business and their business in teetering on the edge of collapse. I have been clear with them and they tell me their budget. We just are adding duct tape to the problem just for a quick fix. 29:00 – It would be ideal that you had money but let’s figure out the next, best thing. 29:15 – Okay what do we want to do in 6 months or in a year so that way we can pay for things in installments that is less painful that way. I am trying to think – has anyone asked you to do something truly unethical? 29:48 – Yeah the logo thing was a family dispute. 29:56 – For our blogging agency I was asked to misrepresent something on a website. They asked if we could post a commercial and we were ghost writing it. Anytime that comes up I can pass. It hasn’t come up too much over the years. I cannot stress enough DON’T DO UNETHICAL THINGS. 31:16 – What can you do setup the relationship so this possibly isn’t an issue in the future? 32:00 – Panelist talks about clients and more.  The more consultative a relationship is the more they will listen to their expertise. Getting paid for your brains and less for your hands. 32:30 – Most times clients disregard your advice b/c they just see you as a pair of hands. 33:22 – In my initial calls with training people... 34:00 – Panelist talks about his 4-day training course and how companies try to squeeze the program out in only 2-3 days instead, because their workers are “smarter than the average person.” 35:28 – I can point to this data to show that I AM an expert. The more narrow I am with my focus the more they are inclined to hear me out and trust me. 36:11 – I have been doing this for years now I know how long it will take. Other things that we can say about this? 36:32 – General piece of advice would be if the client is disagreeing then it can be a real gut check and it’s important to keep a cool head and you don’t want to fight with your client. 37:35 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! Sponsors/affiliates:
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    Reuven:
    • Podia
    • The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
    43 min
  • FS 312: The Care and Feeding of an Email List
    Panel:
    • Jeremy Green
    • Reuven Lerner
    In this episode of the Freelancer’s Show, Jeremy and Reuven discuss “The Care and Feeding of an Email List.”Both Reuven and Jeremy cover their experience and insights with building an email list, software for email marketing, running a campaign, lead magnets, evergreen content creation, and much more. This is a great episode to understand how to integrate email marketing and lists building for your business. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 1:00 - Reuven talks about special software for an email list. Mailing for Marketing. Reuven talks about the things he learned with all the email lists. 2:00 - Reuven talks about Awebber, Drip and other types of email marketing software. Reuven continues to talks about evergreen lists, and issues with mailing lists. Reuven talks about how to write evergreen emails. 5:00 - Jeremy asks about the timing of sending out emails rather it is a regular list or evergreen emails. Reuven talks about email campaigns and other kinds of scheduled type email tasks. 7:20 - Reuven talks about what a broadcast email list is according to Drip, as well as Drop Campaigns. Reuven explains how these email campaigns work and how they function to market a product. Reuven explains how to gain or collect emails. 10:00 - Reuven explains how to write up emails to keep your audience or lists in the loop of your products or whatever you are doing? 11:00 - How to get people on these mailing lists? Reuven explains how to collect emails for your campaign. Reuven talks about how Lead Magnet work to collect emails. Reuven continues with Content Upgrades, Email Courses, and other clever ways to collect or build up a marketing list. 14:00 -  Reuven explains opting out, and how this email market is a cost-free way to market. He also talks about Lead Ads on Facebook as another way to market, but it is not free. 17:00 - Some talk about the trials of unsubscribes. Reuven concludes his setup of his email lists 20:03 -  Jeremy asks about reusing content and the extent of creating content. Reuven explains that this leads to people creating a book or ebook our of all the content that create for their email lists. Reuven talks about engaging with the audience or lists. 23:00 -  Reuven talks about reusing content in his training material and how is cross pollenates.  24:00 -  Jeremy ask about how Reuven goes about pruning his list of those who are not activate with the email content. Reuven explains open rates and other analytic measures and how to read those numbers. Jeremy says he is anti-pruning of his lists. 27:00 -  Reuven talks about messages going into junk mail, and other kinds of undefined or unopened emails. 29:00 -  Jeremy talks about overcoming personal views on email and putting out content to people. Reuven talks about the response email to this subscribers. 32:00 -  Jeremy ask about compiling with GDPR. Is this important to know about email lists. Reuven talks about how he takes care of this GDPR compliance action. Reuven talks about ways to workaround those who want to resubscribe. Jeremy explain his actions with GDPR compliance. 35:00 -  Small business and privacy verses huge corporations. Daily messages. Revue talks more about writing and hiring to write content in place of himself to product content. As well as hiring to guest post and generate sales. Sponsors/affiliates
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    Links
    • Drip: getdrip.com
    • Mailchimp: Mailchimp.com
    • Content Upgrades: http://rightmessage.io/
    • RightMessage: http://rightmessage.io/
    • Sumo: Sumo.com
    Picks: Jeremy
    • RightMessage
    Reuven
    • Blind Ambition, by John Dean
    45 min
  • FS 311: Choosing a Specialty
    Panel:
    • Jeremy Green
    • Erick Dietrich
    • Reuven Lerner
    In this episode of the Freelancer’s Show, Jeremy, Reuven and Erick discuss “Choosing a Specialty.” This episode covers the many different avenues of discovering your niche or specialty. Each Freelancer speaks about how they have become an expert in their field rather it was an organic transition or something that had to work and building. This is a great episode if you are apart of a company and want to separate yourself as an independent freelancer or entrepreneur. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 1:10 - Erick shares about a question he is asked often which is “How does one  figure out exactly what to specialize in if one is about to go independent?” Erick talks about his journey working his way up to being independent. Erick shares working in consulting, marketing, and the evolution of being a Freelancer. 3:45 -  Jeremy talks about his journey, working in Rails and Ember and other technologies via consulting with companies. Eventually, specializing in a few things rather a bunch of general bunch of things 6:20 -  Reuven shares how he got into specializing starting from Pearl to training in Ruby. Reuven talks about how know Python led his to training more often, then eventually decided to work from Israel and working on the training/consulting platform. 10:25 -  Erick talks about back into the specialty or finding what you are naturally great at. Jeremy talks about finding prospective buyers and getting in the door with them easier. 12:00 -Turning down work that is out of your specialty but take the work if you need it. 14:00 -  Look around and find out what is working. Focus on what you are good at, but think more about what you are hearing people need. Listen for the demand. Reuven talks about choosing something you like and interest you. 17:10 - Noting is permanent. You can change your specialty if you need too. Marketing yourself to different people in different ways. Reuven talks about niche AB testing. 20:00 - Reuven talks about Phillip Morgan’s book on specializing. Phillip Morgan consulting. 23:00 - Erick task about listening to the pain points of your clients to find opportunities. Reuvnen talks about making his want to a consultant to a trainer. Branding yourself and people will call you up for work. 27:00 -  Erick asks - Is there an organic way to find your specialty? Reuven says people he know that people just “fall-into” their speciality. Reuven gives Andrew Madsen as an example with credit unions. 31:00 - Reuven talks about the roles of peoples jobs and getting exposed to what kinds of jobs are out there. Reuven talks about going to conferences. Going to conferences of potential clients as an idea to market. 34:00 -  Erick talks about gaining expertise by writing about it and seeing who contact you about it. Jeremy talks more about writing and bring in business for your business. 40:00 -  Jeremy talks about when it is time to find something else. Reuven that your niche is similar to marketing yourself. 43:00 -  Reuven talks about establish what you don’t do as anti specializing. Reuven talks about trying several things to understand what you want to specialize in. Erick says not to procrastinate or indecision to put of life or career goals. Sponsors/affiliates
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    Picks: Erik
    • Guideline
    • Hit Subscribe authorship
    Jeremy
    • Phillip Morgan consulting
    Reuven
    • WeeklyPythonExercise.com
    • From Cold War to Hot Peace, by Michael McFaul)
    • War on Peace by Farrow
    51 min
  • FS 310: Working with Recruiters
    Panel:
    • Jeremy Green
    • Erick Dietrich
    In this episode of the Freelancer’s Show, Jeremy and Erick discuss “Working with Recruiters.” Both Erick and Jeremy describe their experience with how recruiters and agencies fit into the job search as a developer. This discussion brings light to the pros and cons of using a recruiter to acquire a job as a  freelancer or a conventional W-2 employee.  This is a great episode to learn the insights of what recruiters expect when helping one find a carrier in the software development platform. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
    • Hit Subscribe -  and working with recruiters 
    • Changing relationships with recruiters
    • What recruiters are looking for  - full-time employees
    • The preferred way of working - W2 employment
    • Not being seen as worth recruiter time as a contract worker
    • Placement for staff augmentation and freelance
    • The downsides of working with recruiters
    • Successful placement with recruiters
    • Intro projects via recruiters
    • Recruiters taking a percentage
    • Job boards
    • Organizations over recruiters
    • Working as a sub-contractor via agency
    • Flipping a full-time offer intro a contract
    • Labor laws
    • Wasting an employers time with a switch from W2 to Contract
    • Make your intentions clear as a freelancer
    • Working with trusted recruiters
    • and much more.
    Picks: Erik:
    • Hit Subscribe authorship
    • Hubspot
    Jeremy
    • Mirror Placement
    • Robert Half
    41 min
  • FS 309: The Essential Consultant Library
    Panel:
    • Reuven Lerner
    • Jonathan Stark
    In this episode of the Freelancer’s Show, the panelist, Reuven and Jonathan discuss “The Essential Consultant Library,” or the books you should read for consulting, marketing and business. Jonathan and Reuven share the exact books that helped them in the current area of business. Rather it is consulting, marketing, or entrepreneurship, the Freelancers share their favorites and much more. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
    • You should continue learning
    • Books that help in various ways for business
    • Value-Based Fees by Alan Weiss
    • The Positioning Manual by Philip Morgan
    • Selling to Big Companies by Jill Konrath
    • The Secret of Selling Anything by Harry Browne
    • How to Measure Anything by Douglas  Hubbard
    • Just F  Ship by Amy Hoy
    • Double Your Freelancing Rates by Brennan Dunn
    • Hourly Billing is Nuts by Jonathan Stark
    • The Brain Audit by Sean D’Souza
    • Patrick McKenzie website
    • Getting Things Done by David Allen
    • And much more!     
    Sponsors/Affilates
    • FreshBooks
    • Digital Ocean
    Picks Jonathan
    • Little Nightmares
    • Jonathan's Reading List
    • The Pricing Seminar
    Reuven Lerner
    • We Chat
    • MEET
    51 min
  • FS 308: Getting Into Your Clients Heads with Josiah Mory
    Panel:
    • Jonathan Stark
    Guest: Josiah Mory In this episode of the Freelancer’s Show, Jonathan of the Freelancer’s Show speaks with Josiah Mory about getting into your clients heads. Josiah talks about how his company, Kickinbahk Productions, engages with customers to increase sales with marketing strategies. This is a great episode that uncovers marketing strategies and gives insight into marketing and much more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
    • Josiah talks about Kickinbahk Productions.
    • Strategies with clients
    • Freelancing
    • Learning from podcasts
    • Offering up skills
    • Allowing the conversation to flow
    • Their frustrations in the business
    • Building relationships with customers
    • Just ask “How is business”
    • Finding out where clients are at
    • Optimizing Sales
    • What steps would you take after finding out where your prospects are at?
    • Business happens over the phone
    • Cash flow
    • And much more!     
    Links
    • Kickinbahk Productions
    • Joisah Mory’s LinkedIn
    Picks: Jonathan
    • The Pricing Seminar
    • Canon EOS M50
    Josiah
    • ONKRON Monitor Desk Mount
    • Josiah's 5-day email course
    • Josiah's website
    54 min

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