Ep 104 | How To Transition From a Freelancer To Product Creator | with Manuel Ogomigo

09/24/24 • 67 min

Hello and welcome to episode 104 of Webflail.
I'm your host, Jack, your failure connoisseur, and today my guest is Manuel Ogomigo.

He’s an impressive dude

5 months ago, he quit his stable UX job to dive into the wild world of freelancing and building products in public.

After 4 years, he quit.

And he launched Flowdrive.

In his own words, crickets.

But now, things are moving.

Did you know he has built 8 other products before this?!

He’s a Webflow and memberstack expert and he’s got a smile as big as the Niger Delta.

Has it always been easy for Manuel? Or has it been a real struggle with some massive failures along the way? You be the judge.

The failures that we’ll discuss are:

While working in design, not doing enough research results in failed product and layoff :)
Not doing marketing enough
Almost destroying flowdrive, clearing all assets with a silly mistake

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‍💻 See Website: https://www.manuelogomigo.com/
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Hello and welcome to episode 104 of Webflail.
I'm your host, Jack, your failure connoisseur, and today my guest is Manuel Ogomigo.

He’s an impressive dude

5 months ago, he quit his stable UX job to dive into the wild world of freelancing and building products in public.

After 4 years, he quit.

And he launched Flowdrive.

In his own words, crickets.

But now, things are moving.

Did you know he has built 8 other products before this?!

He’s a Webflow and memberstack expert and he’s got a smile as big as the Niger Delta.

Has it always been easy for Manuel? Or has it been a real struggle with some massive failures along the way? You be the judge.

The failures that we’ll discuss are:

While working in design, not doing enough research results in failed product and layoff :)
Not doing marketing enough
Almost destroying flowdrive, clearing all assets with a silly mistake

Previous Episode

Ep 103 | Lessons Learnt Growing The Largest Francophone Webflow Community In The World | with Theo Roland

Hello and welcome to episode 103 of Webflail.
I'm your host, Jack, your failure connoisseur, and today my guest is Theo Roland

Theo is a man you have no doubt come across on your escapades in the world of Webflow but just in case you haven’t, he’s leading the charge in the Francophone Webflow community.

What does Francophone mean? It means french speaking.

He’s french and runs InitWeb, which includes a frenchspeaking Webflow community, InitClub (1043 people in the slack), as well as bootcamps, self-paced courses and other resources.

Before this, he was a freelancer that taught people online.

On YouTube, he has 1.43K subscribers•114 videos

So, he’s a Webflow Expert & Global Community Leader, but has it always been this way?

Has it always been as dreamy as a float down the river seine with a bottle of vin rouge?

NO!

The failures that we will talk about today are:

The failure of launching a studio alongside early-stage training. Unable to scale quickly enough -> Abandonment of this premature project in 2021, project revival in 2024.
The failure in emotionally managing all the help requests from the Francophone Webflow Community Slack. Unable to respond to everyone -> Acceptance of the need to allow others to respond and understanding how to sustain a community independently.
The failure to properly understand the content expected by the Community and the Learners of the training. Better tracking of needs and gamification to encourage completion. -> Fewer basic questions, more technical questions, easier content creation.

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‍💻 See Website: https://www.initweb.fr/
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Ep 105 | Why focussing on helping others gets you clients | with Luke Netti

Welcome to episode 105 of Webflail and I am joined by the almighty Luke Netti!
Now you've probably seen Luke floating around on the Twittersphere, but if you haven't, Luke does a lot. Websites for businesses that are looking to scale. He does brand messaging, websites, and sales funnels that help businesses grow.
So note web flow is at the start of this episode. He is not just making flowery animations. He is trying to focus in as a web flower that's focused on business results. So we'll talk a little bit about that during this episode. We actually met quite recently, uh, online because, um, there's client stuff that Luke is transitioning from and transitioning to.
We were talking about supporting him on that, which we might touch on during this episode, but. Although he's flying high, although he's a successful freelancer, and frankly, he's just killing it in the game. There have been some failures along the way:
1) Not focusing on relationships early enough in his career
2) Trying to systematize and scale too early
3) Raising his prices too quickly and not doing so gradually.

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