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Hit Subscribe Freelancer Q&A — 100 episodes
Pros and Cons of Sole Proprietor vs LLC for Freelancing
Should I Take a Lower Rate to Work with an Agency?
Should You Do Strategy Work for Non-Executive Engagement Sponsors?
Is Automation to Spare Enterprise Devs/QAs from Toil a Good Niche?
Can You Make a Living Selling Info Products as a Tech Expert?
Is Helping with Strategic Decisions about Codebases a Good Niche?
How to Use Pricing to Show Your Value
How Did You (Erik) Arrive at Your Niche?
Should You Unbundle Strategy and Labor in Services Work?
How to Avoid Being Treated Like an Employee?
Is Improving Code Performance a Good Niche?
What Is the Difference Between a Niche and Positioning?
How Do You Start Consulting?
How Can You Go from Employed to Freelancing with Low Risk?
Should I Gain Leadership Experience Before Freelancing Programming?
Can You Avoid Having Your Efficiency Questioned by Having Flat Rates?
How to Handle a Lucrative Client with No Trust in You
How to Avoid Giving Away Consultative Services as a Throw-In?
Setting Up and Filling Your Funnel with Leads to Avoid Gaps
How To Handle a Client Wanting Work When You're Sick?
How to Calculate Runway When You Have an Initial Contract
How to Build a Marketing Funnel with an Audience on Another Platform
What Should You Do When Asked to Implement a Bad Idea?
Is Strategic Advice a Good Up-Sell for a Programmer?
How Should I Price an Hour-Long Training Session?
How Should I Handle a Non-Compete Agreement from a Client?
How Can You Move to Niching and Value Pricing?
Does Having More Leads Mean You Can Raise Your Rates?
Is It Worth It to Bring in Subcontractors?
Will ChatGPT Replace Freelance Programming?
Freelancer or Self Employed: What Should You Call Yourself?
What Bookkeeping Software Should I Use to Freelance?
How Freelancers Can Avoid Self Employment Tax
Which Meetings with Clients Should I Bill For?
When Do You Look Too Much Like an Employee?
Is California a Bad Place to Start a Business or Practice?
Should I Run Away If Someone Offers Equity?
Is It Okay to "Fake It 'til You Make It?"
Should I Approach Freelancing Differently During a Recession
What is the Best Way for Freelancers to Get Paid?
What is My (Erik's) Worst Client Experience?
Is Coaching a Good Line of Work for Independents?
Should Freelancers Have References, Like Employees?
What Are Taxes Like for Freelancers, Compared to Employees?
How Many Hours Per Day or Week Should Freelancers Work?
Is Freelancing Riskier Than Employment?
Should You Charge for Discovery Calls?
Is Data Science as Viable for Freelancing as Programming?
How Do You Win Long Term Clients?
Is It Normal to Feel Guilty about Raising Rates?
Do You Need a Bookkeeper to Freelance?
What to Say to "Freelancing Isn't a Real Job?"
Client Supplied Contract Instead of Signing Mine
What's it Like Adjusting to Not Having a Boss?
How Do I Become a True Consultant?
What Questions to Ask During Discovery?
What To Do When Clients Want Bug Fixes after Contract Ends?
How Do I Get That First Client?
Dealing with Variable Income as a Freelancer
How to Use LinkedIn to Generate Leads
How Does Insurance Work When You're a Freelancer?
How Should You Handle Raising Your Rates?
How Do You Break the Feast or Famine Cycle?
What Do Freelancers Do When They Get Sick?
Should You Build a Business in Your Own Name or Pick a Brand Name?
Managing Context Switching When You Have Multiple Clients
What’s the Difference Between a Freelancer and a Consultant?
Is It a Problem for a Freelancer to Have Just One Large Client?
What is a Retainer in Consulting and How Does It Work?
How Does a Freelancer Get Started with Content Marketing?
Should Freelancers Run Ads to Get Business?
How Do You Quit a Gig or Fire a Client?
What Software Do You Need for Your Freelance Practice?
Should I Start a Business Bank Account to Freelance?
Building a Hibernate Training Business with Info Products and Consulting, with Thorben Janssen
What Motivates Companies to Hire Freelancers Instead of Employees?
Should a Freelancer Maintain a Portfolio?
What Should You Title Yourself on LinkedIn or in Business Cards?
Building a Python Training Business, with Reuven Lerner
Should Freelancers Give Talks as a Way to Generate Business?
Is Freelancing a Lateral Career Move?
Bootstrapping and Evolving a Web Development Agency, with Marg Reffell
How Can a Freelancer Improve Their Sales Win Rate?
Should Freelancers Use ”We” on Their Business Websites?
Balancing Serious Side Hustles and Fulltime Work, with Swizec Teller
How Do You Vet Clients as a Freelancer?
What Do Freelancers Do for Benefits?
When Should You Quit Freelancing?
Invoicing Basics for New Freelancers
From Employment to Freelancing Collective, with Cory Koehler
When Should a Freelancer Start Paying People to Do Other Things
What To Do When Freelance Clients Won’t Pay
Pricing When You Start Your Freelance Practice
How to Avoid Bad Clients as a Freelancer
Building an Audience for Your Business or Practice
Interviewing, Negotiation, and Sales as a Freelancer
Freelancing vs Salaried Employment: Is Freelancing Right For You?
Incorporating as a Freelancer: Your Options and How to Choose
Should Freelancers Use Upwork?
Making Your Website as a Freelancer