How to scale from a freelancer to agency

As a freelancer with several years of experience, I got to the point that the next logical step is to start a agency to help companies with my skills. There are are multiple questions I had at the beginning of my agency journey: 1) How easy/hard is to find clients? 2) How much initial capital/budget … Read more

Dealing with inflation challenges for agencies and services businesses

If you’ve never experienced this type of inflationary pressure when I’m working for an agency, and there is a real problem. So we’re going to talk about why what inflation means to an agency, what we can do, and most importantly, what I think we can do about it, because we do talk about why … Read more

How to tell clients you’re raising fees

Costs are going up for businesses and some agencies and freelancers are likely considering raising their fees in order to cope. But putting the price up is never going to be an easy chat with existing clients and creates a risk to relationships when contracts come up for renewal. How do agencies and freelancers manage … Read more

Best CRM for freelancers

We’ve scoured the CRM landscape to find the best CRM suppliers for freelancers in 2020, and below will explain everything you need to know to pick the one that’s right for you. Each system is cloud-based (so you can access them from any device, anywhere), and offer a free trial (letting you try before you … Read more

How to find and hire a freelance consultant

Just some thoughts straight off the bat. Have clear defined objectives and measurement. It will keep you and the agency (for want of a better term) accountable. Begin building out a brief. Background, objectives, unique value prop for your business, lessons learned from previous efforts, current channel presence, best practice examples if they exist etc. … Read more