Freelance Transformation

This episode is all about the most powerful ways you can go from employee to freelancer. Even if you don't have any clients lined up. You can still make the freelance transformation with confidence as long as you're willing to put in the effort.

Our guest today actually used my Freelance Start course in order to transform himself into a full-time freelancer. Josiah Mory helps store owners on Shopify improve their customer experienc...

The agency space may have a reputation for cultivating a negative atmosphere, but building an agency doesn't have to be all bad. You just have to build your agency with intention, and that's exactly what our guest on this episode is doing.

Mike Arnesen is a freelance analyst and SEO fanatic who just so happened to build his own agency called UpBuild. After a few bad experiences, he decided to take what he learned and apply it to a ...

It's time to stop overcomplicating lead generation. Your marketing strategy does not have to give you a migraine. There are ways to keep marketing simple, and we've got marketing guru Kyla Roma on the podcast today to show you how to do just that.

Kyla is a marketing and profit consultant who uses her minimalist marketing strategies to build an audience and attract clients. It's all about playing to your strengths and finding a mar...

We always talk about getting clients on this show, but the real work doesn't actually start until you've signed them on. What do you do when you finally start that client project? How do you manage your time with all these deadlines? It's no easy task managing all of the moving pieces.

Whether you work alone or with a team, project management is crucial to your success as a freelancer. If you want to work with clients effectively, ...

Before becoming a freelancer, RJ McCollam was fired from his job, evicted from his apartment, and even had his car repossessed. It took losing everything to inspire his motivation. Now, ten years later, he's a successful web developer who's guest spotting podcasts to share his experience with the rest of us.

RJ is talking today about building a freelance career from the bottom up. He taught himself how to build websites and used hi...

Imagine sitting in front of a corporate board and pitching your skills for a project. Do you even know where to start? Luckily we have Nathan Allotey on this episode to speak to attracting and winning corporate clients. Nathan never calls himself just a freelancer. He is a web designer and digital marketing strategist. And his portfolio consists of corporate clients. He uses his presence online to help other freelancers win corpora...

Our guest today will be the first to tell you that you don't need to use a super expensive sales funnel to attract clients to your business. Consistent action will win clients every time. Kirk Williams, owner of Zato Marketing, is a paid search marketer who started his career on Twitter. But his online presence on Twitter and through online forums helped him generate leads and a client pool he actually likes to work with.

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Breaking out of the corporate world could be one of the best career decisions you ever make. Once you make that freelance transformation, you can start making your own schedule and picking your own clients. But what happens when you need to write a contract? Or when tax season rolls around?

Abbey Woodcock is a copywriter and freelancer coach who has learned first-hand from her own business mistakes. In the beginning, Abbey focused ...

Start imagining your ideal client. Get as specific as you can. Pick out the things you love most about your freelance career…

Today's guest was able to narrow down her niche by focusing on the thing she loves most – humor. Lianna Patch is a conversion copywriter and conference speaker who uses her amazing sense of humor to create interactive content for her clients. She's injecting personality into her business and working with cli...

If you make the right moves, you can build an agency in just three years. Think it's impossible? Think again! We have Emily Hirsh on the show today just to prove that it is entirely possible to build your brand and your business in only three years.

Three years ago, Emily started as a virtual assistant. At first, she managed social media for her clients. Running successful Facebook campaigns turned into Emily's niche, and she decid...

Working for yourself isn't easy, but it's not impossible. Our guest today left her career of over twenty years to start her own business. It was always something Merideth Bisiker wanted to do, and being there for her family finally inspired her to do it.

Less than a year ago, Merideth left her full-time job to become Merideth the Money Coach. She helps clients with money management techniques and helps them recover from financial c...

Job sites like Upwork aren't just oversaturated watering holes for freelancers. There are ways to find real, high-paying clients on these sites. Don't believe me? Well, our guest today is here to prove this point exactly.

Tom Casano is an SEO consultant and founder of the Sure Oak consulting firm. He ramped up his business over the past 16 months by optimizing his availability on Upwork.com. On this episode, Tom discusses what cues...

In order to be a successful freelancer, you have to create that human experience. Connecting with clients online can make that kind of experience really difficult, but it's not impossible. Our guest today specializes in building connections with clients by creating online communities.

Sophie Bujold is the creator of Cliqueworthy, an agency that connects clients with their ideal online communities. Sometimes her clients are starting...

If you think you can't use content marketing to connect with your ideal clients - think again! 

Content marketing is effective no matter what niche or skill you're selling. If you're having trouble making it work for you, then you might be doing it wrong. According to my guest today, a lot of us are doing content marketing wrong.

Devesh Khanal is a content marketing guru who used to be just like us. He never thought content marke...

There is more than one way to find clients. Set your pitches aside for a moment and tune in to today's episode. James Johnson is on the show today to talk about the ways you can think outside of the box and snag the kind of clients you really want to work with.

James Johnson is a freelance writer and founder of the Freelance Writers School. His grassroots approach to finding clients is a complete game changer. James teaches his unc...

Sometimes we underestimate how hard it really is to scale a business. Many of us fail to take a closer look at our business model before we get started and then we are overwhelmed when everything starts to take off all at once.

So, is it possible to scale your business with your sanity intact?

Breanne Dyck, Founder of MNIB Consulting Inc., is here on Episode 164 to reveal a few tips which could help you to scale your business witho...

On this episode of the Freelance Transformation Podcast, we get to talk about what it's like to sell to and work with corporate clients. And when we say corporate clients, that typically means companies that are bigger than what we'd normally consider a small business. They have proper departments, multiple shareholders, and tens, hundreds or thousands of employees. Companies where you're dealing with multiple stakeholders involved...

Being a freelancer can be harder than you think it is. We still dread going to work sometimes, even when we work from home. And there's still that looming threat of "is this all there is?" If you're looking for something more in your business, then today's episode is for you. On this episode, Kevin Monroe talks about how we can all find a purpose for our freelance business.

Kevin Monroe is a leadership consultant and executive coac...

Brian Downard wasn't always serving one kind of client. He started in app development, but he found his calling in lead generation for home and garden businesses.

Serving one vertical like this is even more specific than finding a niche. Brian talks about what inspired him to focus on this particular vertical and the mistakes and the successes that he's made that ultimately shaped his business and his brand.

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