#340: The Freelancer’s Survival Guide | 25 Tips for Payments, Productivity, and Profit

12/10/24 • 36 min

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Freelancing can make you feel like SUCH a failure sometimes (myself included).

Whether you’ve been in the game for a month or a decade, there are always things you don’t know that you don’t know – until it’s too late.

This week, I’m sharing 25 tips that can save you time, money, and a whole lot of frustration in your freelance career.

From automating tedious tasks to upping your payment game, you’ll learn:

✔️ How to get paid on time (every time) without playing debt collector.

✔️ Learn the #1 thing my wife is doing in her business that could save YOU hours

✔️ The shift that makes clients magically find your rate “affordable.”

✔️ How to save hours with simple automations.

✔️ Why a $19/month software might make (or break) your workflow

Freelancing doesn’t come with a survival guide – until now.

For full show notes, visit https://6figurecreative.com/340

Freelancing can make you feel like SUCH a failure sometimes (myself included).

Whether you’ve been in the game for a month or a decade, there are always things you don’t know that you don’t know – until it’s too late.

This week, I’m sharing 25 tips that can save you time, money, and a whole lot of frustration in your freelance career.

From automating tedious tasks to upping your payment game, you’ll learn:

✔️ How to get paid on time (every time) without playing debt collector.

✔️ Learn the #1 thing my wife is doing in her business that could save YOU hours

✔️ The shift that makes clients magically find your rate “affordable.”

✔️ How to save hours with simple automations.

✔️ Why a $19/month software might make (or break) your workflow

Freelancing doesn’t come with a survival guide – until now.

For full show notes, visit https://6figurecreative.com/340

Previous Episode

#339: How Freelancers Can Win Without Competing on Price | The Blue Ocean Trio

Tired of fighting for scraps?

The endless price wars. The brutal grind. The feeling that clients can’t tell you apart from a dozen other freelancers offering the exact same thing as you.

It’s exhausting and soul-crushing, but you don’t have to play this game.

There’s a way to escape the bloody red waters of competition and step into a blue ocean where you’re one of the only options.

No price wars. No burnout. Just high-value clients who choose you because you’re the only obvious choice

In this episode, I’m breaking down the Blue Ocean Trio—three simple ways to:

✅ Escape the red ocean.

✅ Command higher rates.

✅ Build a freelancing business you actually enjoy.

In this episode you’ll discover:

How to stand out and avoid competing on price alone.
Three key strategies to attract high-paying clients.
Shifting from selling services to offering unique outcomes.
How to find untapped niches with less competition.
How to package services in ways that make price irrelevant

For full show notes, visit https://6figurecreative.com/339

Next Episode

#341: What To Do If 2024 Was A Freelancing Sh*tshow

Was this year amazing for you?

...Or were you caught in a freelancing feast-or-famine sh*tshow where you felt like you were slamming your head into a wall over and over and over and over?

If this wasn’t your best year ever as a freelancer, I need you to ask yourself one question:

Do you actually have a plan for next year, or are you still hoping referrals magically fall into your inbox?

That “wait-and-see” approach is why most freelancers stay stuck in feast-or-famine mode. One month, you’re making bank. The next? Crickets.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

I recorded a new episode breaking down the exact system you need to: