How to operate as a freelancer with Matt Olpinski [#28]

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Matt Olpinski is a successful UI + UX designer and developer who teaches thousands of freelancers how to get more clients, raise their rates, and create a better life for themselves.

In this episode, Matt discusses in depth how to operate as a freelancer. Matt shares how he accidentally fell into the world of freelancing and how you can find clients through your personal network by letting people know what it is that you do. Matt also reveals how he transitioned from being a full-time freelancer to running his agency and how he built his own lively community – The Freelance Institute. Key points covered throughout the episode include:

• Matt’s leap into full-time freelancing.
• Communicating with clients and delivering value.
• Learning from conversations and evolving through feedback.
• Useful resources for operating your business.
• Freelance transformation - the shift from freelancing to running an agency.
• How to position yourself and scale your business.
• Finding the right people to work alongside.
• How to develop and grow a thriving community.
• Advice on finding your first 10 customers.
• Unlocking the power within your personal network.

Matt holds over ten years of industry experience and has worked with renowned world-class brands such as Facebook, Coca-Cola, PayPal, Porsche, and Google, to name but a few.

Matt’s Freelance Institute is a community for freelancers and remote workers, where you can receive the best freelancing advice by talking directly to experienced freelancers, including Matt in a private community focused on helping you learn the business of freelancing.

Connect with Matt Olpinski:

http://mattolpinski.com/

http://madebymatthews.com/

http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattolpinski/

The Freelance Institute – A community for freelancers and remote workers.

http://mattolpinski.com/community/

Connect with First 10 Podcast host Conor McCarthy:

http://www.first10podcast.com

http://twitter.com/TheFirst10Pod

http://www.linkedin.com/in/comccart/

Resources:

The Blueprint by Brendan Dunn

http://brennandunn.com/

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17607204-the-blueprint

Useful business tools:

A proprietary business communication platform:

http://slack.com/

A visual collaboration tool:

http://trello.com/

A community platform for creators:

http://circle.so/

Produced in partnership with podlad.com