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4 Things No One Tells You About Running a Freelance Business
More people are saying goodbye to full-time gigs and hello to life as a freelancer. In fact, about 59 million Americans freelanced in 2020, up over 2 million compared to 2019. The perks are well docum...
How to Earn a Six-Figure Income as an Online Tutor in 2023
Online tutoring is an amazing way to earn money from your expertise, knowledge and skills — and everyone’s an expert in something, right? What was unthinkable a couple of decades ago—tutoring so...
How to Grow Your Freelance Business With Influencer Marketing
The term “influencer” has become very popular in the last few years. In a matter of years, it has evolved from a hobby and internet trend, to be considered a highly-rewarding career path. If you h...
How to Increase the Visibility of Your Blog with SEMrush
Standing out amongst two million daily blog posts is no easy feat. Luckily with the right tools, you can be a little closer to the top of that pile. This SEMrush review spells out the most essential f...
100+ Design Topics to Write About on Your Design Blog
Whether you’re starting your own design blog, or need design topics to write about on other design blogs as a guest blogger, thinking of original graphic design blog topics can be a real struggle. S...
Remote Control: Supporting the New Reality of Working from Home
The unprecedented global health crisis is changing the way we work at truly astounding speeds. Suddenly, whether by choice or necessity, many of us find ourselves negotiating the new reality of remote...
Be Yourself, Get More Clients (FTF 8.1)
On today’s episode, we sit down with Amy Kuo—a former designer at Disney who after finding her passion for branding, and taking the leap into full-time freelance, wants to grow her own agency. We ...
How Freelancer Clay Mosley Built a $100K/mo Agency
Clay Mosley was fired from every job he ever held. His first job out of college was working as an insurance fraud investigator. It didn’t take long to realize that job wasn’t for him. For the next...
100+ Best tools for freelancers who never want to have a boss again
Here’s a tough truth about freelancing: no one tells you how much of your time you’ll be spending on actually running your business. Lucky for you, there’s no shortage of tools for f...
From founder to freelancer: How Louis Nicholls has flipped the script for success
In this episode, you’ll hear the story of Louis Nicholls, founder of ‘Sales for Founders’, where he teaches sales skills for a mostly tech founder audience. What makes Louie’s story so differe...
WordPress freelancer builds $1M business in 6 months
Adam Preiser was enjoying an early retirement in his 30’s. That was until he started experimenting with YouTube—showing non-developers how to rapidly build sophisticated websites with WordPres...
Building a $30K/month company with podcaster-turned-CEO, Matt Johnson
Welcome to a brand new season of Freelance to Founder and a new era for the show! We embrace a new, more casual and long-form approach to sharing our founder stories. And we hope you enjoy it as much ...
51 Best Business Books for Thriving at Solopreneurship
If you’re looking to gain knowledge, motivation, or just some good business advice — look no further. We’ve asked 5 people to share with us the best business books they would recommend. ...
From 3rd-grade teacher to six-figure photography blogger with Courtney Slazinik of Click it Up a Notch (FTF 5.5)
We have a super founder to introduce to you today. A great story of a military wife. An extremely busy and motivated mother and wife who decided to mix her two passions – education and photograp...
Over $500K/year working just a few hours a week with Brian Casel of Audience Ops
We interview Brian Casel: entrepreneur, product designer, writer, trainer at flagship training program Productize, host of ProductizePodcast and Founder of AudienceOps, a done-for-you content marketin...
From financial freelancer to $300K+ in revenue with Pam Capalad of Brunch and Budget
In today’s episode, we’re in New York City to join Pamela Capalad, a certified financial planner who’s blended her expertise in financial planning with her passion for educating and serving peop...
From freelance writer to million-dollar BBQ blog and a Guinness Record with Susie Bulloch of Hey Grill Hey (FTF 6.4)
When grown-ups used to ask Susie Bulloch what she would be when she grew up, she didn’t stand a chance of guessing correctly. That’s because, as Susie puts it in our most recent episode of...
From freelance writer to $300K/year with Chelsea Baldwin of Copy Power (FTF 6.3)
For this episode, we’re heading into the beautiful mountains of western North Carolina, where Chelsea Baldwin moved with her family after her early childhood years in Indiana. She was like any o...
Chris Do: From immigrant childhood to millions in revenue & winning an Emmy
After his family immigrated to the U.S. from Vietnam, Chris Do never imagined his artistic interests could eventually propel him into a successful life-long career. Now, years later, he’s an Emm...
From web designer to building Freshbooks into a multi-million-dollar company with Mike McDerment (FTF 4.4)
Mike McDerment had the entrepreneurial bug early on. In second grade, he built a video game and told everyone he was going to sell it. Today, Mike runs Freshbooks—a tool for freelancers with nearly...
23 Cool Examples of Transparent Business Cards + Giveaway
Remember when you were in college (maybe you still are) and you stressed to no end about your resume and portfolio? You were all about getting it perfect. “Just right.” It had to be impres...
5 Common Ways Designers Screw Up Their Cover Letters
Cover letters are a great way to make a positive first impression. In the design world, the purpose of a cover letter is to introduce a portion of your work history, to exhibit your ability to write i...
19 Left-brain exercises for creative people
Most creative people are right brained and frankly, sometimes we work the right half of our brains way too hard. Being “right-brained” means we like to think outside the box, frequently di...
The 5 phases of professional logo design
If you’re feeling a bit hesitant when it comes to designing your first logo, never fear. I’ve got 5 simple phases of logo design you can follow in order to create masterful logos every tim...