The Unconventional Guide To Freelancing Is Available

I’m excited to announce that the Unconventional Guide to Freelancing is now available. While it’s hard to say that it’s my best work yet, it’s probably the most comprehensive product I’ve been involved with yet.

When we were developing this product, we wanted to stay focused on three things:

1. Creating a product that would meet the high expectations of the great freelancers that have been part of our communities
2. Filling a critical gap that we’ve seen with most products on building a freelance business
3. Making sure the product was accessible to people at different stages of freelancing while at the same time focusing on experienced freelancers

As you may know, I make innovative products and offers whether I’m working solo or with partners. Sometimes those innovations are huge, and at other times they’re smaller innovations in delivery, style, or usability. The innovation in this product is focused at the conceptual level – rather than learning how to be a better technician or operator, you’ll learn how to be better at running your business. If you’ve been freelancing for any amount of time, you know that most of the challenges aren’t around doing your thing but instead around the business aspects of what you’re doing.

Here’s how these challenges might have run through your head…

• How do I get this project done on time to spec when I’ve got so many other things I’m managing?
• How do I get people to hire me? I’ve built the field and they haven’t come yet.
• How do I manage this money now that I have it? And why is that I’m making more money but don’t seem to be getting ahead?
• How can I grow this business without hiring a bunch of people OR working like a dog all the damn time?

The point of the Guide is to give you the executive-level skills to handle these types of challenges as well as some immediate action steps to get your business where you want it to be. We don’t want you to survive and eek by in your business – we want you to thrive.

We also tackled some of the less sexy components of business building in this Guide that you won’t see handled in one place like this anywhere else. Yes, that means taxes, finances, legal issues, contracts, and agreements. These are the issues that you’d normally have to find out on your own the hard way or by working your way through a wide collection of books and websites that still don’t tell you what you need to know. Since I’ve already found it out the hard way with myself and clients or by combing through more of those resources than I’d like to mention, you can cut straight to the chase.

Lastly, we conducted some interviews with other freelancers and service providers who’ll tell you when you should get some people to help you, but, even more importantly, when you shouldn’t. For instance, instead of buying into the idea that you should run out and hire a VA as soon as you can afford it, we want to give you information to let you know if and when it’s the right move for your business and situation. We’ve seen too many people hire out parts of their business too early or too late, and we want to make arm you with the information and experience that’ll help you make the moves when you need to. This keeps your time, energy, attention, and money where it should be – in your business or in your life.

If you’re an entrepreneur with a service-based component of your business and have been looking for a resource that helps you build a stronger, smarter, and more profitable business, this is something you’ll want to check out. It contains the lessons-learned from my years as a coach, consultant, and entrepreneur and it’s a comprehensive distillation of the frameworks you’d learn from me as a client. I’m proud to say that any single part of the Guide would pay for itself quickly if you take the information and use it.

There’s more detailed information about the packages you can get that you can check out by going to the Unconventional Guide to Freelancing page. (That link will take you off-site.) I hope you’ll take a second to see if it’s the right fit for you.