How to Earn Six Figures without a Job — Freelance WordPress Developer Tom Hirst

04/01/21 • 62 min

In this episode we discuss:

How Tom got started freelancing
Landing the first client
Do you need to be able to "sell yourself" to make it as a freelancer?
Getting out of the "feast/famine" cycle that traps many freelancers
What are the biggest mistakes that most people make when first starting out as freelancers?
What would Tom do if he was starting over again today?
Should you use marketplaces/platforms like UpWork to sell your services as a freelancer?
Is it important to choose a niche?
Where Tom gets virtually all of his new leads from
The advantages of "working in public"
Finding success on Twitter
Tom's viral Twitter thread on pricing freelance projects ( https://twitter.com/tom_hirst/status/1277933730078785537
How to create additional sources of income as a freelancer (besides client work)
Translating freelance expertise into creating and selling content online
Tom's new agency, Run the Show (https://twitter.com/rtsagency) that specializes in Headless Wordpress
What is "Headless Wordpress" and why would someone use it?

You can find links to all of the resources we discussed and more on Tom's website here: https://www.tomhirst.com/links/

04/01/21 • 62 min

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