A clever way to get rid of the “feast or famine” part of freelancing
Published: Sat, 11/07/20
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?
Automation, babycakes.
Specifically, using a cheap Zapier account to help sift, sort, & qualify client leads 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, haunting bars at seminars, 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 the Zapier training I’ve been shilling all weekend.
Troy “Dr. Frankenstein of marketing automation” Broussard and his long-suffering business partner Moshe are selling a live Zapier training along with the recordings, if this sort of thing interests you.
Plus, if you buy from my link below by the deadline, you also get:
“elBenbo’s Copy-Soaked Brain”
This was an unadvertised bonus I did for our $399/month coaching program in Learnistic.
The tl;dr of it is this:
Part of my copywriting process is, I read my sales letters out loud 10x's before running it. This audio is the 4th of 10 readings of the elBenbo Press sales letter — with all the edits, bumps, and ideas being worked out and arranged at that stage, and with all the psychology & insights going through my brain as I think about, work on, and write/edit my own sales copy.
The deadline to get all this is tight.
You got til tomorrow, Sunday 11/8 at midnight EST.
Details at this link:
https://www.EmailPlayers.com/zapier
Ben Settle