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April 1, 2021 62 mins

In this episode we discuss:

  • How Tom got started freelancing
  • Landing the first client
  • Do you need to be able to "sell yourself" to make it as a freelancer?
  • Getting out of the "feast/famine" cycle that traps many freelancers
  • What are the biggest mistakes that most people make when first starting out as freelancers?
  • What would Tom do if he was starting over again today?
  • Should you use marketplaces/platforms like UpWork to sell your services as a freelancer?
  • Is it important to choose a niche? 
  • Where Tom gets virtually all of his new leads from
  • The advantages of "working in public"
  • Finding success on Twitter
  • Tom's viral Twitter thread on pricing freelance projects ( https://twitter.com/tom_hirst/status/1277933730078785537
  • How to create additional sources of income as a freelancer (besides client work)
  • Translating freelance expertise into creating and selling content online
  • Tom's new agency, Run the Show (https://twitter.com/rtsagency) that specializes in Headless Wordpress
  • What is "Headless Wordpress" and why would someone use it?
  • You can find links to all of the resources we discussed and more on Tom's website here: https://www.tomhirst.com/links/

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