Double Your Freelancing Podcast

Links & resources can be found on the show notes page: https://dyf.link/episode103 Coaching series: Can Zach get this beginner freelancer (Brad) to a 6-figure income ($8,333/mo) within 6 months? Follow their journey through the ups and downs and watch them grow! Milestones from today’s episode: Upwork success from utilizing personalized videos First freelancer podcast episode completed and Brad’s...

Links & resources can be found on the show notes page: https://dyf.link/episode102   Coaching series: Can Zach get this beginner freelancer (Maia) to a 6-figure income ($8,333/mo) within 6 months?   Follow their journey through the ups and downs and watch them grow! Milestones from today’s episode: Booked out 1 month in advance while fine-tuning services for better client engagement Onboarded two...

Links & resources can be found on the show notes page: https://dyf.link/episode101 Coaching series: Can Zach get this beginner freelancer (Brad) to a 6-figure income ($8,333/mo) within 6 months? Follow their journey through the ups and downs and watch them grow! Milestones from today’s episode: Brad’s Organic YouTube marketing approach and the direct impact on lead generation and sales Using high-...

Links & resources can be found on the show notes page: https://dyf.link/episode100 Coaching series: Can Zach get this beginner freelancer (Maia) to a 6-figure income ($8,333/mo) within 6 months? Follow their journey through the ups and downs and watch them grow! Milestones from today’s episode: Maia’s success from marketing on Instagram and gaining new clients Using other social media platforms to...

Links & resources can be found on the show notes page: https://dyf.link/episode99 Coaching series: Can Zach get this beginner freelancer (Brad) to a 6-figure income ($8,333/mo) within 6 months? Follow their journey through the ups and downs and watch them grow! Milestones from today’s episode: Brad starts to refine his strategy for podcasting How to best use his current YouTube content for potenti...

Links & resources can be found on the show notes page: https://dyf.link/episode98 Check out the DYF Accelerator community at: https://dyf.link/community Coaching series: Can Zach get this beginner freelancer (Maia) to a 6-figure income ($8,333/mo) within 6 months? Follow their journey through the ups and downs and watch them grow! Milestones from today’s episode: Maia is considering hiring a junio...

Links & resources can be found on the show notes page: https://dyf.link/episode97 Coaching series: Can Zach get this beginner freelancer (Brad) to a 6-figure income ($8,333/mo) within 6 months? Follow their journey through the ups and downs and watch them grow! Milestones from today’s episode: Brad narrows down his niche and expertise to work with clients Finding high-quality clients off of Upwork...

Links & resources can be found on the show notes page: https://dyf.link/episode96 Coaching series: Can Zach get Maia to a 6-figure income ($8,333/mo) within 6 months?   Follow their journey through the ups and downs and watch them grow! In today's episode Zach helps Maia decide where to spend time in her business to really move the needle the most. Milestones from today’s episode: Maia refines her...

Links & resources can be found on the show notes page: https://dyf.link/episode95 Coaching series: Can Zach get this beginner freelancer (Brad) to a 6-figure income ($8,333/mo) within 6 months? Hint: Yes! This kickoff interview for the series was actually shot AFTER it was over! In this kickoff interview, Zach and Brad look back on his biggest lessons learned along the way, and explain the coachin...

Links & resources can be found on the show notes page: https://dyf.link/episode94 Coaching series: Can Zach get this beginner freelancer (Maia) to a 6-figure income ($8,333/mo) within 6 months? Hint: Yes! This kickoff interview for the series was actually shot AFTER it was over! In this kickoff interview, Zach and Maia look back on her biggest lessons learned, and explain the coaching series you’r...

Links & resources can be found on the show notes page: https://dyf.link/episode93 In this episode, Zach talks to Josh Starr from  https://joshstarr.co Josh has started several different agencies, each of which gets clients from cold email. (He also has an agency where he does cold outreach for other agencies — how meta eh?) His various agencies have generated over $2.3 million in lifetime value, a...

Links & resources can be found on the show notes page: https://dyf.link/episode92 In this episode, Zach talks to Bo-Peter Laanen from https://blaanen.com/ Bo-Peter is a marketing coach and founder of Growth Marketing Hub. He helps course creators grow their businesses by leveraging AI for content production, marketing, and SEO strategies. On today’s episode, Bo-Peter talks about how to utilize AI...

Links & resources can be found on the show notes page: https://dyf.link/episode91 In this episode, Zach talks to Kim Swagemakers from Kimpact , about her experience going from employee to freelancer to a productized agency owner.  On this episode Kim shares her insights about immersing yourself in client pain points to inform your trajectory, choosing a niche based on past products, finding good p...

Links & resources can be found on the show notes page: https://dyf.link/episode90 In this episode, Zach talks to Jesse Hanley from Bento - the email marketing tool. In today’s episode, you’ll find out how Jesse went from solo freelancer to scaling a 25-person agency, then selling it all and starting a SaaS email marketing product. Jesse talks about the challenges of scaling an agency including cli...

Links & resources can be found on the show notes page: https://dyf.link/episode89 In this episode, Zach talks to Joana Galvão from  Gif Design Studios. Joana Galvão is the co-founder of award-winning design agency Gif Design Studios and a leading business coach for ambitious creatives who want to take the shortcut. Based in Porto, Portugal, her agency specializes in brand identities and conversion...

Links & resources can be found on the show notes page: https://dyf.link/episode88 She goes deep into her cold outreach philosophy and approach that can help even new freelancers start booking clients today. She also shares her email template she used to cold outreach to a design agency that ended up driving multiple five figures of business to her! More details and links on the show notes page: ht...

Links & resources can be found on the show notes page: https://dyf.link/episode87 They’ve worked with big names like Pat Flynn and featured on Forbes, SPI, and more. One of the cool things about their business is how systematized it is — they pay all their contractors fixed rates for projects, and have their process so dialed in that Prerna’s effective hourly rate (EHR) for copywriting is about $1...

Links & resources can be found on the show notes page: https://dyf.link/episode86   If you haven’t heard of Nicolas Cole, he’s a ghostwriter-turned-agency-owner-turned-product-course-creator-biz-owner. He is the co-founder of Ship 30 for 30, the largest cohort-based writing course on the Internet; Typeshare, the leading platform for Digital Writing tools & templates; and Premium Ghostwriting Acade...

If you somehow don’t know who Brennan Dunn is, he’s the dude who started this whole DYF thing. 😅 He started as an employed developer… Then side hustled as a freelancer… Until it was doing enough revenue that he quit to go full-time freelance… And then, through many twists and turns, went on to scale a bespoke-work agency to $2,000,000/yr in revenue with 11 staff… And later sold his stake in the b...

I talk about why I've been M.I.A., and share how focusing on expected results helped me win over a new client.

When you shop for anything, check with the business owners and ask, “How’s business going?” They will be happy to share their thoughts. Roadmapping involves interviewing and understanding a client to identify their needs and craft a solution for them. Take care of and protect your clients to develop successful and reliable results. My guest today is Lionel Martin, a software and DevOps engineer wh...

Learn how to take awesome conversations and translate them into increased scope of works to grow your business with heightened capabilities around marketing. Think about the impact, not just the deliverable. Paint a complete picture of marketing. My guest today is Ian Servin of Animus Studios, which is a production company that makes videos. Animus has a higher-level, holistic approach of using vi...

Advisors lead by developing a trusted relationship with prospects. This takes out a lot of traditional pitching for business and transitions to paid connections. You become more of a consultant than just a hired gun. Drew Sanocki and Michael Epstein are partners at Growthengines.io, which has grown from being brand new to generating $1 million in revenue in less than a year through retainer work....

When your business is small, you need to carve out a niche and engage clients. Know what you can do for them, and put into words what you can deliver. You need to determine whether you want to work with others or not. How do you roadmap your business? My guest today is Matty McLain, who works for small companies and startups to help them tighten their sales process and get clients. What keeps busi...

My guest today is Gabi Logan, who offers one-on-one coaching and has a recurring revenue knowledge base/database business, retreat center offering events, and weekly webinar. She also does high-end consulting engagement for travel destinations and serves as a certified executive coach. On today’s episode, we discuss hurdles she has experienced with roadmapping in her consulting business to get mor...