If you’ve been using our $1 A Day Omnipresence Strategy to create new sales and client cash flow, you’ve probably already experienced how powerful it can be. For pennies, you get yourself in front of at least 100 of your dream customers every single day, staying top of mind while building trust and authority and landing yourself in…
Is it really possible to spend just $1 a day to find more of your dream clients? Tired of tossing money and proposals into the Upwork proposal void, hoping to land a less-than-ideal gig to cover your bills? Fed up with clients who constantly low-ball you, demand 17 revisions, and then toss you to the curb the moment…
Are you a freelancer escaping Upwork? I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: If you’re freelancing on Upwork, then you’re not really freelancing - you’re racing to the bottom of the commodity marketplace and straight toward burnout. And now that Upwork charges you simply to bid on jobs (with new freelancers needing to submit tens if…
The freelancing landscape is changing, and has already changed, drastically. Competition is fierce on marketplace and gig bidding sites like Upwork, not to mention the already astronomical fees (up to 20% of your profit) and a brand new system that charges freelancers just to bid on a project. All this means that conventional advice and answers to common…
There's a lot of business advice out there to help freelancers get to six figure income quickly, and it’s true that a lot of it works. But a lot of it is also exceptionally unhealthy for you - physically, mentally, spiritually, you name it. The Burnout Cycle A six figure student of Mike Shreeve's recently experienced this first…
There's one key difference between freelancers who struggle to get by and freelancers who can charge more and bank serious cheddar, and it’s something we’ve talked about many times before: The former sells a commodity, and the latter sells a result. Making the jump from the former to the latter won't be an overnight event, and it also…
We all want clients - great clients. But we don’t always have time to be out looking for them ourselves. In fact, if we’re doing this freelancing thing properly, we should be spending our time helping others. As freelancers, nothing lasts forever though, which means we need a system of attracting new clients to us even while we’re…
Chances are good that as a freelancer, you struggle with saying, “No.” Especially when you’re new to freelancing, or just starting to see some real success, the thought of turning down paid work and client opportunities can sound bananas. But part of being a freelancer is running your business - it’s being CEO of your own individual company…
Have you ever thought about how your money beliefs could be hurting your freelance business? While most of us probably don’t aspire to be filthy rich, every freelancer I know wants to make good money on some level. Freedom money. But our methods of doing this are often misguided. We often believe that if we learn X new…
A quick Google search will turn up a hundred and one things that you supposedly need to make it as a freelancer. A proper working space, a 57-step sales funnel, an undying and burning passion for the work you do… But the reality of successful freelancing has shown us that those lists just aren’t true. In a recent…