Learn how to win clients and build the freelance business of your dreams. Matt Inglot, agency owner and freelance coach, interviews top freelancers and agency owners on EXACTLY how they run their service business. Learn how top freelancers win clients, charge higher rates, and build a freedom-based lifestyle through their business. Guests have included Alan Weiss, Michael Port, Brennan Dunn, Jason Swenk, Noah Fleming, Jonathan Stark, and many more. Tune in for a new episode every Monday morn ...
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Two very important announcements. Brace yourselves, because it’s going to be bittersweet. https://freelancetransformation.com/episode180By Matt Inglot
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179: Find Clients by Connecting the Dots | Josiah Mory
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47:37This 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 f…
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178: Build an Agency Your Way | Mike Arnesen
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51:00The 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 UpBuil…
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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 aud…
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176: Keep Yourself, Your Clients & Team Accountable | Edmund Zaloga
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45:04We 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 cr…
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175: 6 Figures Through Relationships & Hard Work | RJ McCollam
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50:24Before 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 fre…
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174: What Companies Look For | Nathan Allotey
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45:10Imagine 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…
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173: Build Relationships & Win Clients | Kirk Williams
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47:25Our 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 …
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172: What Is Your Contract Missing | Abbey Woodcock
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50:09Breaking 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 ha…
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171: Be Clear on Who You Target | Lianna Patch
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46:58Start 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 conten…
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170: VA to Agency Owner in 3.5 Years | Emily Hirsh
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49:37If 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 cl…
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169: Breaking Out of Banking to Become a Coach | Merideth Bisiker
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47:45Working 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 h…
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168: Book $156K in Client Work from Upwork | Tom Casano
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53:52Job 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 b…
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167: Help Clients in a Cool Niche | Sophie Bujold
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47:01In 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 con…
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166: Content Marketing Right | Devesh Khanal
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54:39If 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 …
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165: Backdoors to Find Clients | James Johnson
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48:05There 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 gra…
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164: Scale Up w/o Burning Out | Breanne Dyck
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57:52Sometimes 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 …
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163: Consult for Corporate Clients | Henrik Becker
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46:56On 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 thous…
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162: Freelance with a Purpose | Kevin Monroe
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47:01Being 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 f…
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161: Focus on a Vertical to Win Clients | Brian Downard
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51:01Brian 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…
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160: Elite Consultant Mindsets | Michael Zipursky
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49:40Michael Zipursky of Consulting Success has spent nearly two decades building consulting agencies. Over the last ten years, he’s dedicated his time to helping other consultants & freelancers alike to build better businesses. His experience has taught him that having the right mindset is what sets truly successful freelancers apart. Michael believes …
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Upgrading from freelancer to solo-preneur is the trajectory some of us take in our businesses, but taking that first step isn’t always easy. How do you know when you’re ready? Duane Brown, Founder of Take Some Risk - a digital marketing agency, discusses his transition from freelancing to starting his own agency. Duane shares some of the risks he t…
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158: Websites in Highschool to 5 Figure Projects | Joe Kashurba
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52:14When it comes to freelancing, we all have to start somewhere. And the reality is that those beginnings are pretty humble. Your first client probably won’t be a giant account and you probably won’t be making hundreds of dollars per hour. In fact, the whole project might be $100. But how do you get from that point to better clients, higher paying, po…
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157: Story Selling to Clients | Crystal Smith
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45:12Crystal Smith is the mastermind behind Shine Consulting where she helps solo-preneurs tell their origin stories in order to sell themselves better. Crystal refers to this process as "story-selling." Story-selling is more than just talking about your experiences, it's about connecting your own personal story to your business. Crystal shares her own …
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156: Solo Freelancing to Agency | Matt Kohn
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46:09Being a freelancer is often synonymous with being a "jack of all trades." You do everything in your business. You could be a web designer or writer, but you’re also a manager, a bookkeeper, and a marketer. Matt Kohn of Different Hunger Media shares his story of building his solo-freelance business into an agency. And how it's allowed him to focus o…
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