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| Scaling a Freelance Business into an Agency - TFS 390 | 10 Jun 2021 | 00:58:52 | |
Petra and our guest Kevin discuss the various elements that go into getting a freelance business to the next level of growth (if you choose) including systems, marketing, employees (including a few what not to do stories!) and sales. We'll discuss how we overcame certain challenges, and the one secret that caused Kevin's business to go from a team of three to a team of 25 within a short timeframe. Panel
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| The 3 Essentials for Successful Job Outcomes - BONUS | 04 Jun 2021 | 00:35:25 | |
Chuck dives into the 3 essentials for getting the next successful outcome you want in your career. Whether that's something simple like a raise or something more complex like going freelance, you can achieve it by working on 3 main areas. First, building skills. The most obvious type of skills you'll need is technical skills. However, don't neglect your people skills and your organizational skills as well since you're often paid for how you work with people and enhance their work and how you put your work together in the most efficient ways. Second, building relationships. Often other people will be able to help you find the opportunities or will be the ones to make the decisions that impact your ability to get the outcome you want. Having good relationships is key to having good outcomes. Third, building recognition. Being known for being valuable in important ways allows you to leverage the skills you have to build better relationships and create opportunities to get what you need to get the outcomes you want by giving people what they want. A podcast is a great way to do all three. Chuck explains exactly how that works in this podcast and goes deeper as part of the Dev Influencers Accelerator. Panel
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| The 3 Essentials for Successful Job Outcomes - BONUS | 03 Jun 2021 | 00:37:29 | |
Chuck dives into the 3 essentials for getting the next successful outcome you want in your career. Whether that's something simple like a raise or something more complex like going freelance, you can achieve it by working on 3 main areas. First, building skills. The most obvious type of skills you'll need is technical skills. However, don't neglect your people skills and your organizational skills as well since you're often paid for how you work with people and enhance their work and how you put your work together in the most efficient ways. Second, building relationships. Often other people will be able to help you find the opportunities or will be the ones to make the decisions that impact your ability to get the outcome you want. Having good relationships is key to having good outcomes. Third, building recognition. Being known for being valuable in important ways allows you to leverage the skills you have to build better relationships and create opportunities to get what you need to get the outcomes you want by giving people what they want. A podcast is a great way to do all three. Chuck explains exactly how that works in this podcast and goes deeper as part of the Dev Influencers Accelerator. Panel
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| How to Get Hired at a FANG Company - BONUS | 28 May 2021 | 00:22:26 | |
Chuck explains what he taught Nathan last week when we asked how to get hired at a FANG (Facebook Apple/Amazon Netflix Google) company. Essentially, it boils down to how to build the skills and knowledge needed to pass the interview. How to build the relationships to get into the door and have the interviewer want you to succeed. And how to build the reputation that has the company wanting you regardless of the outcome. This approach also works for speaking at conferences, selling courses, and other outcomes as well as it's the core of building a successful career as an influencer. Panel
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| How to Get Hired at a FANG Company - BONUS | 27 May 2021 | 00:24:38 | |
Chuck explains what he taught Nathan last week when we asked how to get hired at a FANG (Facebook Apple/Amazon Netflix Google) company. Essentially, it boils down to how to build the skills and knowledge needed to pass the interview. How to build the relationships to get into the door and have the interviewer want you to succeed. And how to build the reputation that has the company wanting you regardless of the outcome. This approach also works for speaking at conferences, selling courses, and other outcomes as well as it's the core of building a successful career as an influencer. Panel
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| Becoming the Go-To Person in Your Technology Area - BONUS | 07 May 2021 | 00:16:33 | |
Chuck was on a strategic call with one of his potential coaching clients talking about cryptocurrencies and realized that this is one of the major reasons that people want to become influencers. Or, rather, that many people aspire to make a difference and/or make money and the best way to do that is to become the person people go to for what you do. So, how do you become the first person people think of when they think of that thing you know how to do? Let Chuck tell you. Panel
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| Becoming the Go-To Person in Your Technology Area - BONUS | 06 May 2021 | 00:18:51 | |
Chuck was on a strategic call with one of his potential coaching clients talking about cryptocurrencies and realized that this is one of the major reasons that people want to become influencers. Or, rather, that many people aspire to make a difference and/or make money and the best way to do that is to become the person people go to for what you do. So, how do you become the first person people think of when they think of that thing you know how to do? Let Chuck tell you. Panel
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| Don't Let These Things Keep You From Podcasting - BONUS | 29 Apr 2021 | 00:17:36 | |
Charles talks about the things that get developers stuck when they're trying to start their podcast or other influencer channel. He explains how to get around having those things hamper your journey. Panel
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| Don't Let These Things Keep You From Podcasting - BONUS | 29 Apr 2021 | 00:15:18 | |
Charles talks about the things that get developers stuck when they're trying to start their podcast or other influencer channel. He explains how to get around having those things hamper your journey. Panel
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| BONUS: Relationships Matter Most | 23 Apr 2021 | 00:19:45 | |
Charles Max Wood talks about how to build, grow, and benefit from positive relationships within programming. He talks about how he's built genuine positive relationships with hundreds of programmers and how he and others have grown from those relationships. He also explains that you get out of relationships what you put into them. Finally, he goes into how to begin to build relationships by building a system of influence you can use on behalf of the people you want relationships with. Panel
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| BONUS: Relationships Matter Most | 22 Apr 2021 | 00:21:59 | |
Charles Max Wood talks about how to build, grow, and benefit from positive relationships within programming. He talks about how he's built genuine positive relationships with hundreds of programmers and how he and others have grown from those relationships. He also explains that you get out of relationships what you put into them. Finally, he goes into how to begin to build relationships by building a system of influence you can use on behalf of the people you want relationships with. Panel
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| BONUS: How Opportunities Come Your Way When You're an Influencer | 16 Apr 2021 | 00:20:33 | |
Charles Max Wood discusses several opportunities that came his way early in his podcasting career and other opportunities that have come to other people after only a couple of podcast episodes. He explains why that happens and how you can use this to create more influence as a developer. Panel
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| BONUS: How Opportunities Come Your Way When You're an Influencer | 15 Apr 2021 | 00:22:51 | |
Charles Max Wood discusses several opportunities that came his way early in his podcasting career and other opportunities that have come to other people after only a couple of podcast episodes. He explains why that happens and how you can use this to create more influence as a developer. Panel
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| BONUS: What is Charles Max Wood's Biggest Payoff for Being a Dev Influencer? | 09 Apr 2021 | 00:31:27 | |
Charles Max Wood started podcasting because it sounded fun and because he wanted to talk about technology. He learned pretty quickly that it got him access to people who understood the things he wanted to learn. The reasons changed over the years, as Charles explains before he talks about the big payoff he gets now from doing the podcasts. Panel
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| BONUS: What is Charles Max Wood’s Biggest Payoff for Being a Dev Influencer? | 08 Apr 2021 | 00:33:45 | |
Charles Max Wood started podcasting because it sounded fun and because he wanted to talk about technology. He learned pretty quickly that it got him access to people who understood the things he wanted to learn. The reasons changed over the years, as Charles explains before he talks about the big payoff he gets now from doing the podcasts. Panel
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| BONUS: How Jason Weimann Became a Game Developer | 02 Apr 2021 | 00:39:04 | |
Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn't a job working as a game developer and how that led to a career working on one of the most popular online games of the time. Panel
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| BONUS: How Jason Weimann Became a Game Developer | 01 Apr 2021 | 00:41:14 | |
Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn't a job working as a game developer and how that led to a career working on one of the most popular online games of the time. Panel
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| BONUS: Continuing Your Learning Journey by Finding Mentors as an Influencer | 26 Mar 2021 | 00:30:13 | |
Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster. Panel
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| BONUS: Continuing Your Learning Journey by Finding Mentors as an Influencer | 23 Mar 2021 | 00:32:33 | |
Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster. Panel
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| BONUS: How Senior Developers Can Enjoy Learning Like They Were Juniors | 16 Mar 2021 | 00:39:23 | |
Remember the amazing adventure it was to learn a new thing every day as a Junior Developer? It's easy to feel a little stuck or lost as a Senior developer since there aren't roadmaps or people looking to mentor seniors. (Besides Charles Max Wood.) Chuck talks about how he felt that way at different points in his career and how podcasting and connecting with the programming communities helped him get past that. Panel
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| BONUS: How Charles Max Wood Started Podcasting -- And You Can Too | 09 Mar 2021 | 00:45:01 | |
Charles Max Wood goes into the origin story of his podcasting career and how it relates to his programming career. He starts with his interest from a young age in technology and his dreams of being a radio DJ. He moves quickly through college and into his first job after college where he was introduced to podcasts by a co-worker who had purchased an iPod. He calls out several mentors like Gregg Pollack, Eric Berry, Nate Hopkins, Cliff Ravenscraft, David Brady, Dave Jackson, and many more. He then explains what he'd do differently if he were starting today. Join the Dev Heroes Accelerator at https://devchat.tv/hero Panel
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| BONUS: How to get Freelance Clients to Come to You | 02 Mar 2021 | 00:34:50 | |
Charles Max Wood explains how he landed his first 4 freelance clients that took him through a few years of freelancing with only 3 years of experience and a few hundred podcast listeners. Funnily enough, they actually came to him, not the other way around. He explains how he made himself attractive to them and then turned it into a mutually profitable relationship once he had their attention. Panel
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| TFS 389: ENRICHing Your Life with Todd Miller | 09 Feb 2021 | 00:43:43 | |
Todd Miller teaches entrepreneurs how to live a fulfilling life. He's just released his book ENRICH which outlines the process for growing as a person, finding the things that fulfill you, and live without regrets. Panel
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| BONUS: Measuring Apps and Entrepreneurship with John-Daniel Trask | 05 Feb 2021 | 00:50:12 | |
John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code. | |||
| BONUS: Measuring Apps and Entrepreneurship with John-Daniel Trask | 05 Feb 2021 | 00:50:12 | |
John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code. | |||
| BONUS: How to Crush Your Biggest Goals in 2021 | 01 Jan 2021 | 01:07:14 | |
Get the 2020 Goal Setting Workshop + Success Accelerator Deal HERE (Coupon Code: GOALS for a massive discount) Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to walk him through the 6 pillars of success that lead to meeting your goals. Mani has read thousands of books on success, setting and achieving goals, and personal growth and has distilled these 6 principles from the books and then figured out how to put them into practice. He and Chuck walk through the principles and strategies that create success and allow you to set goals that will bring you the things you want during the next year or so. Listen to this episode to learn how to crush your biggest goals in 2021. Get the 2020 Goal Setting Workshop + Success Accelerator Deal HERE (Coupon Code: GOALS for a massive discount) | |||
| TFS 388: Creating Proposals That Actually Work | 22 Dec 2020 | 00:38:26 | |
Petra describes some of the failings she used to have with her proposals and how she turned it all around. Petra now uses several savvy sales techniques in her proposals, but you wouldn't know because the proposal process is very customer-centric. In this podcast episode she walks you through a successful proposal template that has won her hundreds of thousands of dollars in freelancer business. Panel
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| TFS 387: Smart Traffic Generation for Freelancers with Michael Fleischner | 01 Dec 2020 | 00:55:23 | |
Michael Fleischner, SEO expert, Charles Max Wood, podcasting expert, and Petra Manos, Google Ads expert, discuss the latest tips and tricks for generating high quality traffic to your website. We bust a few myths along the way, so don't miss this episode if you want to generate traffic. Panel
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| BONUS: How to do LARGE Volumes of HIGH Quality Work - While Spending Fewer Hours Working | 27 Nov 2020 | 00:47:23 | |
Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Double Your Productivity by 5pm Today" Deal Coupon Code: "DEEP" for a GIANT discount Mani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time. He has read hundreds of books that have taught him the secrets to getting more done by getting into this state. He starts by telling us how he was passed over for a promotion at Qualcomm in favor of someone younger and less experienced and how that inspired him to figure out what the other guy was doing differently. He learned that he needed to get more done with the time he was spending on his projects. The trick? Deep Work! Deep Work is the ability to spend uninterrupted, focused time on a task to bend your entire mind toward the goal. Other developers call it "Flow" or "the Zone." Mani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time. Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Double Your Productivity by 5pm Today" Deal Coupon Code: "DEEP" for a GIANT discount | |||
| TFS 386: How To Get Corporate Gigs and Scale as a Freelancer with Matthew Mottola | 17 Nov 2020 | 01:01:46 | |
Matthew Mottola, CEO of Venture L and author of The Human Cloud, shares his insights into working as a freelancer as part of a larger corporation. He dispels myths about freelancing vs employment, explains why corporations want you, and provides suggestions into how best to present yourself to a hiring manager. Panel
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| TFS 385: The Principles of Profitability with Marcel Petitpas | 03 Nov 2020 | 00:39:26 | |
In this episode of The Freelancers Show,we talk with Marcel Petipas and he shows us how you can analyze your business and figure out which factors are driving your profit (or lack of) and what to do about it. Panel
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| TFS 384: 7 Mistakes Every Freelancer Needs to Avoid on Their Landing Pages | 20 Oct 2020 | 00:46:23 | |
In this episode of The Freelancers Show, Petra walks through several mistakes she sees freelancers and small service providers make on their websites which prevents you from getting good prospects from your website efforts. If you’ve ever spent a lot of time building your website but not seen a return on your website, you might be making one or more of these mistakes as well! Host
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| TFS 383: Focus On What Matters In Your Sales Conversations with Rob Cornilles | 06 Oct 2020 | 00:52:05 | |
In this episode of The Freelancers Show, Rob Cornilles and Petra Manos discuss the process of selling authentically so that you can generate more business for yourself without feeling sleazy or salesy. The two focus on an effective method for building and maintaining rapport during a sales conversation, a simple and memorable technique that will get results for both you and your clients. Panel
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| TFS 382: Google Analytics for Freelancers | 29 Sep 2020 | 00:58:21 | |
What is google analytics and how should I get started with it. Learn about key graphs like traffic reports, pages and how to get started with goals, events and heatmaps. Panel
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| TFS 381: Gratitude and Giving to Further Your Freelance Business with Paul Edwards | 22 Sep 2020 | 00:49:27 | |
In this episode of the The Freelancers Show, guest Paul Edwards explains how important it is to connect with executives, influencers and entrepreneurs on a personal level by asking them valuable questions and connecting them with resources. The laws of reciprocity create success for those who use them. He describes how his business went from 0 to $60,000 in just a few months by following a “give first” mindset. Panel
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| TFS 380: The Power of Focus From Ideation to Creation with Alex Sanfilippo | 15 Sep 2020 | 01:08:56 | |
In this episode of The Freelancers Show, Alex Sanfilippo, Joel and Petra discuss how to focus ideas and actions in order to come up with products and services that your customers actually want. The same focus, when applied to the creation of the products and services, will propel you forward, even if you don’t have a lot of spare time.. Panel
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| TFS 379: The Confused Freelancer - How To Get Started In Freelancing with Daniel Rosehill | 08 Sep 2020 | 00:36:52 | |
In this episode of The Freelancers Show, we talk with Daniel Rosehill about navigating the choices of tools a new freelancer faces. From billing to project management to client communications and marketing each tool you choose will have strong points and weak points. Daniel in his new book walks through many of the choices a new freelancer will need to address.. Panel
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| TFS 378: From Startups to Freelancing with Jay Clouse | 01 Sep 2020 | 00:57:53 | |
In this episode of The Freelancers’ Show, we talk with Jay Clouse about some of the adventures he’s had on his path to freelancing. In college Jay had the idea that you’d have one career and possibly one job until retirement so you’d better pick wisely. There’s a whole other world out there of startups, freelancing, and so many ways to make your path. Panel
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| TFS 377: Using Email Newsletters To Stay In Touch With Prospects with Michael Katz | 18 Aug 2020 | 00:56:37 | |
Michael Katz walks the panelists through his strategies for staying in touch with prospects through the use of email newsletters. Storytelling is key here, and so Michael suggests ways to weave stories through your correspondence in order to make your content more personable and entertaining. Panelists
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| TFS 376: The Danger of One with Jason Montoya | 04 Aug 2020 | 01:09:15 | |
In this episode of The Freelancers' Show, the panelists and guest, Jason Montoya discuss the problems with having just one of anything, and other factors that lead to fragility for your business. We discuss how the current COVID-19 pandemic has exposed those weaknesses for some, and how we've dealt with them. Panelists
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| TFS 375: How to Build a Company from Scratch with Marc Summe | 21 Jul 2020 | 00:55:36 | |
Guest, Marc Summe shares the ins and outs of building a company from the ground up, especially as it relates to SAS products. As developers, we are not always trained on how to do startups - so check out this very informative episode of The Freelancers Show. Panelists
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| TFS 374: Overcoming the Corona Slump with Jim Huffman | 06 Jul 2020 | 01:07:05 | |
Jim Huffman, Petra Manos, and Joel Schaubert discuss how they've handled downturns in business due to Coronavirus and how they've been able to turn them around. Jim's company focuses on conversion rate optimization. Jim's company was growing and hiring until Coronavirus hit in March. Petra discusses her similar experience with clients cutting costs. They discuss how they did the work to turn things around. Panelists
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| TFS 373: Remote Work with William Gant | 30 Jun 2020 | 01:19:28 | |
React Native Remote ConfJuly 28th to 31th Will Gant, author of [Remote Work](https://amzn.to/31ibPJ3) joins the panel to talk about working from home and working outside of the client's office. He and the panel share their experience with working through the challenges, benefits, and methods of working remotely. Panelists
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| TFS 372: Getting started with YouTube with John Sonmez | 23 Jun 2020 | 01:18:39 | |
React Native Remote ConfJuly 28th to 31th How to get started in YouTube for an absolute beginner. John lays out a path from picking a topic, to editing, to promoting your YouTube content.. Panelists
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| TFS 371: Content Marketing with Google Display Ads | 16 Jun 2020 | 01:00:01 | |
Petra has been working to get blog traffic growth through the traditional social media and email marketing. She tried out promoting her blog posts with Google display ads and retargeting them to get them to come back. She outlines the details in a blog post and then walked the panel through her process. Panelists
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| TFS 370: Staying Relevant on Social Media with Italina Kirknis | 09 Jun 2020 | 00:32:46 | |
Italina Kirknis has been running a social media management company for the last 8 years. She talks to the panel about how to frame the conversation, how to be vulnerable, and how to increase your reach and stay relevant on social media. Panelists
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| TFS 369: Marketing for Freelancers with Tess Ball | 02 Jun 2020 | 00:35:50 | |
Tess Ball is an expert in marketing for small businesses. She walks the panel through doing content, social media, and other types of marketing and how to build relationships that will ultimately lead to business. Panelists
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| TFS 368: How to do Personalized & Relevant Ecommerce Marketing with Rytis Lauris | 26 May 2020 | 01:07:11 | |
Rytis Lauris joins the panelists of The Freelancers Show to discuss the use of automation tools that can personalize your contact with visitors on your website. Panelists
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| TFS 367: Bookkeeping and Finances with Paul Kogan | 19 May 2020 | 01:09:01 | |
Paul Kogan from LessAccounting joins the Freelancers' Show panel this week to discuss bookkeeping and finances. They discuss bookkeeping, hiring a bookkeeper, what to look for in your finances, taxes, and much more... Panelists
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| TFS 366: How to Go Freelance when You've Been Laid Off with Scott Jones | 12 May 2020 | 00:50:57 | |
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020May 13th to 15th - register now! Scott Jones is the author of The Free Agent Mindset. He talks us through building a list of your skills and building a brand to find clients if you've been laid off and decide to go freelance. We also go into other strategies behind building up your new freelance practice. Panelists
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