The Freelancers' Show

01:28 - Keith Perhac Introduction

• Twitter
• Blog

02:09 - How do you find stuff that you can repurpose? 05:37 - “Course” (What you call things and the value proposition)

• Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application

14:32 - Chunking Up and Instructional Design

• Curation and Delivery

29:16 - Building an Audience 31:21 - Making a Successful Course Worth the Price 33:30 - Tiered Pricing

• Interviews
• Refunds and Chargebacks

Picks Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less by Sam Carpente (Keith)
The Brain Audit: Why Customers Buy (and Why They Don't) by Sean D'Souza (Keith)
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal (Keith)
Skype (Keith)
Schedule Once (Keith)
Edgar (Jonathan)
Facebook Ads Manual: Everything you need to know to get started by Mojca Mars (Jonathan)
Blab (Philip)
Website Teardown with Kurt Elster and Kai Davis (Reuven)
Putting tabasco on popcorn (Reuven)
Spending time with your family (Chuck)
@cmaxw (Chuck)
Freelance Remote Conf (Chuck)

00:44 - Balancing Availability and Handling Huge Time Differences

• ScreenFlow
• Jing

10:42 - Jonathan’s Double Your Freelancing Conference Recap

• Brennan Dunn

18:36 - Is there a way to get the benefits of attending a conference without attending a conference?

• Slack
• Meetup

27:10 - Reading Books

• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
• Value-Based Fees: How to Charge - and Get - What You're Worth by Alan Weiss
• The Brain Audit: Why Customers Buy (and Why They Don't) by Sean D'Souza
• Jonathan’s Reading List  

36:23 - Double Your Freelancing Conference Recaps

• Matt Inglot: #DYFConf 2015 and the Mindsets of Successful Consultants
• Jonathan's #DYFC Page
• Kurt Elster: #DYFConf2015 Retrospective: My Personal Journey From Introvert to Public Speaker
• Julie Elster: My OH SHIT Moment; Pushing Through The Uncomfortable and Conquering My DYFConf Talk     

38:41 - Reading (Cont’d)

• The Positioning Manual For Technical Firms by Philip Morgan
• Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling by Michael Port  
• Steal the Show: From Speeches to Job Interviews to Deal-Closing Pitches, How to Guarantee a Standing Ovation for All the Performances in Your Life by Michael Port
  • The Freelancers' Show Episode #81: Book Yourself Solid with Michael Port

Picks Crowdcast (Chuck)
Pebble Time Steel (Chuck)

00:52 - Marcus Blankenship Introduction

• Twitter
• Blog

01:38 - Moving Towards Management

• Having Difficult Conversations/Don’t Hire Friends or Family

09:12 - Firing/Letting People Go

• ABC = Always Be Communicating

20:04 - Growing your business doesn’t always mean hiring more people.

• Being the “Lone Wolf” or “Small Pack”

26:16 - Quality Control 28:33 - How do you find, hire, and keep good people?

• Try Before You Buy

30:52 - Trust and Communication

• “Self-Managing Individuals”

48:26 - Checking In and Setting Milestones Picks Drip (Jonathan)
100 Percent Up Front (Jonathan)
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco (Reuven)
MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom by Tony Robbins (Chuck)
Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims: Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans by Rush Limbaugh (Chuck)
Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management by Johanna Rothman and Esther Derby (Marcus)
The Trusted Advisor by David H. Maister (Marcus)

Preface: The Positioning Manual for Technical Firms by Philip Morgan   01:20 - Identifying the “Who” 06:16 - Providing Added Value 10:39 - Identifying Potential Clients and the Ideal Target Market 27:41 - Showcasing Demonstrated Skill and Being Accessible 34:19 - Narrowing It Down 36:55 - Communication Tactics 42:51 - Takeaways

• Ask: The Counterintuitive Online Formula to Discover Exactly What Your Customers Want to Buy...Create a Mass of Raving Fans...and Take Any Business to the Next Level by Ryan Levesque

Picks This American Life Episode #569: Put a Bow on It (Reuven)
Steal the Show by Michael Port (Jonathan)
MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom by Tony Robbins (Chuck)
The Positioning Manual for Technical Firms by Philip Morgan (Chuck)

00:55 - Laura Roeder Introduction

• Twitter
• LKR Social Media
• Blog
• Edgar
  • @meetedgar  
  • Facebook

01:10 - How Edgar Works 03:31 - Why should you share you own content more than once? 06:25 - What is the most effective approach to scheduling content? 09:01 - Getting Over the “Spammer” Mentality 11:51 - Scheduling 14:47 - Handling Feedback (Complaints) 16:43 - What should you be saying on social media? 19:59 - Should you have multiple accounts? Should you use different platforms for different purposes? 26:06 - How do people even keep up with social media? 30:27 - Hashtags

• Conference/Event News

33:58 - Facebook Pages 36:14 - Social Media Etiquette 39:42 - The Business and Background of Edgar 42:17 - “Request Access” (List Building) 43:51 - Getting Started with Social Media 45:58 - Twitter Cards 46:23 - Email Marketing 49:56 - Keeping Up with Social Media (and targeting the wrong ones)   Other tools mentioned on today’s show

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Hootsuite
• Tweetbot
• Snapchat
• Periscope
• Meerkat
• Instagram
• Pinterest

Picks feedly (Reuven)
Super Spicy Media Blog (Jonathan)
Resources for DYFConf attendees by Kurt Elster (Jonathan)
Edgar (Chuck)
Hootsuite (Chuck)
Tweetbot (Chuck)
Unfollowers.com (Chuck)
Basecamp (Chuck)
Pocket (Laura)

00:57 - Jonathan’s Career Path Background and Transitions

• FileMaker

06:21 - Chuck’s Crossroad

• Remote Conferences
  • Angular Remote Conf
• Sponsorship/Advertiser Liaison
• Apple TV

08:16 - Reuven’s Crossroad: Development => Training 11:35 - How do people recognize that they need a change? (Transitioning) 23:00 - How do you make THE decision and know that it’s the right decision?

• Lightbulb Moment
• Passion

33:16 - Scheduled Self-Evaluation 35:42 - The Identity Crisis Picks Startups For The Rest Of Us Episode #225: Moving on From Auditshark (Reuven)
Remarq (Jonathan)
RCA Outdoor Digital HDTV VHF UHF Yagi Type Antenna (Chuck)
TV Fool (Chuck)

00:51 - Jeremy Green Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• Remarq
  • @remarqio

01:10 - “Good-looking Documents” 07:13 - Use Cases

• The Positioning Manual For Technical Firms by Philip Morgan

08:07 - Typography, Branding, and Spacing 13:00 - Audience & Users 14:20 - Images, Charts, and Graphs 15:30 - Markdown

• Softcover

19:35 - Formatting For Books vs Reports 20:42 - Fonts 21:47 - Image Enhancement 22:36 - Modifying Style Standards 24:14 - Horizontal Rules 25:50 - Decoration 26:38 - White Space and Bulleted Lists 27:53 - Breaking Up Content / Page Breaks 28:59 - How Remarq Works

• Pandoc
• LaTeX

30:24 - The Business Side 31:50 - Upcoming Features

• Dropbox Integration
• Zapier Integration

32:55 - Marketing   Friends of The Freelancers’ Show: Get 25% off Remarq with this special discount code!   Picks Planet Money: Episode 650: The Scariest Thing In Hollywood (Reuven)
Planet Money: Episode 651: The Salmon Taboo (Reuven)
Planet Money: Episode 653: The Anti-Store (Reuven)
Stripe (Chuck)
Crowdcast (Chuck)
Calendly (Jeremy)
The Traffic Manuel by Kai Davis (Jeremy)

00:55 - Host Updates 07:24 - Let’s say you’ve been billing by a week on a large project. The project slows down, meaning there is less to do and requests are sporadic and unpredictable, so weekly billing no longer makes sense to you or the client. What do you then switch to keeping in mind that it’s unpredictable work? 11:27 - ^^ I’m trying to avoid hourly. They don’t know my hourly rate. 14:35 - When other contractors on a client project go MIA off and on, and the work plays a vital role in the project, do you suggest replacements to the client? 24:22 - Company Structure and Business Entities 43:00 - Merchant Accounts and eCommerce 51:47 - Do you let clients text you about projects? I found that once you let that happen, they start texting about things that should be emailed or handled elsewhere. Or, texting expecting a faster response. Or, texting at inconvenient times like when you’re driving with your family. Picks Naomi Dunford: How To Confidently Raise Your Rates (Eric)
Blair Enns: Seven Universal Truths About Money (Eric)

01:56 - Rest & Leisure Time (Away From the Computer!)

• 100 Days of Burpees Facebook Group

11:44 - Making Time and Creating Habits & Routines 22:23 - Professional Development Training

• The Miracle Morning
• Daily Tech Video
• Terrifying Robot Dog Podcast

30:11 - Days/Nights Out with Family & Friends and CoWorking & Networking (Getting Your People Fix)

• Toastmasters International

37:03 - Scheduling Commitments 41:19 - Business Upkeep (Bookkeeping, Client Follow Ups, etc.) 48:07 - Make Small Changes Picks 100 Days of Burpees Facebook Group (Jonathan)
Kirk Parsley: America's biggest problem @ TEDxReno (Jonathan)
Philip Morgan: CTA-able Content Marketing (Eric)
Twitter Analytics (Reuven)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food For Life by Barbara Kingsolver (Reuven)
ElectoralVote (Reuven)
15 Minute Podcast Listener chat with Charles Wood (Chuck)
Pebble Time (Chuck)

00:55 - Paul Jarvis Introduction and Background

• Twitter
• Creative Class
• Smashing Magazine
• pjrvs.com

01:42 - Freelancing Patterns

• Frustration

04:38 - Contracts and Negotiations 08:12 - Coaching Creative People

• Slack Channel

12:35 - Why work as a one-person business? 14:53 - Marketing

• Niches
• Networking

20:55 - Gaining Audience and Getting Booked

• Creating Specific and Focused Content

32:01 - Testimonials and Feedback Picks DYFConf 2015 Video Conference Sessions (Jonathan)
Mr. Robot (Paul)
Huawei P8 lite - 5" Unlocked Android 4G LTE Smartphone (Reuven)