Ep 36 | The Truth About Niching... | With Connor Finlayson

04/04/23 • 44 min

Hello and welcome to episode 36 of Webflail.
I’m your host, Jack and today my guest is Connor Finlayson.
You probably already Connor if you are listening to a podcast all about Webflow freelancing but for those that haven’t, Connor is a no code weapon. On his YT channel with over 11K subs, he helps people who cannot code build their own online businesses with no code tools like Webflow, Airtable and Zapier.
Connor comes from a marketing background and then came across webflow in 2018 which helped him spin up landing pages fast. He wanted to get more freelance work so instead of building a portfolio website, he built a directory for freelancers and put himself at the top. He then built this in to the Unicorn Factory, a job board for New Zealand based freelancers. Now, it’s is his main source of income.

The failures we will talk about are:

Failure 1: Not pulling the plug on my first startup Hatcher sooner

Failure 2: Splitting my time between doing Facebook ads and no-code as a freelancer

Failure 3: Taking on too many projects at once

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The failures we will talk about are:

Failure 1: Not pulling the plug on my first startup Hatcher sooner

Failure 2: Splitting my time between doing Facebook ads and no-code as a freelancer

Failure 3: Taking on too many projects at once

Previous Episode

Ep 35 | Why Create Content As A Webflower | With Sara Brunettini

Hello and welcome to episode 35 of Webflail.
Today my guest is Sara Brunettini

She is an independent designer & Webflow developer based in Brighton. She has over a decade of experience in various domains such as UI/UX design, visual design and web development.
She started out as a graphic designer for over 5 years. This gave her a solid foundation for then transitioning to product design. Sara has worked in house as a full-time product designer for agencies and also as a freelancer and is currently working as a contractor for Meta.
She has also grown a large social media following. Currently, Sara has 11.5K YouTube subs, 15.1K followers on IG, almost 4000 subs on Twitter and 2000 newsletter subs. She offers 1-1 mentorship sessions too.

Today, we'll talk about

Failure 1: failed to become a full time graphic designer

Failure 2 - Failed to balance full time job and freelancing

breakup

Failure 3 - Failing to build your website (webflow)

CONNECT WITH SARA
💻 See Website: https://www.sarabrunettini.com/🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sara_brunettini
📬 Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarabrunettini/

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Ep 37 | Pros And Cons Of Subscription Based Pricing | With Thorir Runarsson

For ep 37 of Webflail, I'm speaking to Thorir Runarsson

I met Thorir for the first time in real life a few days ago at the London Webflow meetup although I have spoken to him online in a café Nero with terrible wifi before that. Thorir founded Snowhouse Studio in 2020, the icelandic powerhouse of a studio. Exceptional partnerships and client projects have helped him grow fast (a mixed blessing as you are about to find out). He now has over 9 people working with him at the studio. Not only that but he’s a father of 3 too! He is crushing it in the webflow space.

Fails we talk about in this episode:

Growing too fast + hiring too quickly
The Unlimited Plan Subscription did not work for our agency.
Not knowing your numbers

Also, my beautiful mic wasn’t connected for this episode. anyway, my audio isn’t very good but luckily, thorir’s is and he is the man who you actually need to hear so hopefully it’s all good. Will check the mic is plugged in next episode. LOL.

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💻 See Website: https://www.snowhouse.studio/
🐦 Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thorirr
📬 Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thorirr/
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