A clever way to get rid of the “feast or famine” part of freelancing
Published: Sun, 05/03/20
For example:
At any given time, they have no clients coming in for weeks or months and panic.
Then, suddenly, they might get a rush of clients, and feel they have to heroically work 24/7 and take them all on at once or lose out, because they need the money.
Note the evil word “need.”
Yes, it’s a neediness type of thing, my Pet.
So they take on sales they shouldn't, and they end up screwing up the fulfillment because they're overloaded and know famine time eventually comes, where they won't have any clients at all. In a lot of cases they may need to have at least 10 clients to make the bills every month, and this month things are really weak and the referrals are low. So now they've only got three or four clients and they're struggling. This constantly being in “feast or famine mode” is extremely common in all kinds of service-based businesses, not just freelancing.
The solution?
Email automation, baby.
Specifically, creating an email automation system that lets freelancers — or any kind of service based business — have leads being qualified automatically and “behind the scenes”. That way, you can spend your time doing the actual work you’re hired to do, instead of wasting your life away networking, dealing with flakes, second guessing yourself, and taking every scrap of work you can today just to make sure you can make your monthly nut in case your work dries up tomorrow.
Enter Troy Broussard’s Automation Magic course.
He talks a lot about how freelancer-type businesses can cheaply use automation to do this.
It’s also on sale for a mere $20 until Wednesday, 5/6 at midnight EDT.
That is, if you use my affiliate link here:
http://www.EmailPlayers.com/automate
Ben Settle
P.S. If you buy the course today, you also get an extremely rare & valuable bonus:
“elBenbo’s Swiperoscope Saga: Part 3”
These videos contain nearly 2-hours of word-for-word analysis of 5 emails in my private swipe file, put under the proverbial “microscope”, that have had the most direct influence on my own email writing.
Here’s a small taste of what’s inside these videos:
* The secret email (originally written way back in 2006 by an online info publishing pioneer) I use each month as a “template” to sell Email Players and other subscription-based offers.
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* What you must do if you think you are an internet tough guy or boss lady swearing & cursing in your emails... and want to sail through Google’s aggressive spam filters.
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* A mental trick used by Olympic athletes to prevent tensing up before competing... that can also help eliminate struggling with what to write in your emails.
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* A psychological trick (used by two of the most profitable copywriters in history) for drawing people into your email and other sales copy.
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These bonus videos contain information about writing emails I have been selfishly keeping to myself for over a decade.
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Here’s my affiliate link:
http://www.EmailPlayers.com/automate