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by bdunn 7y ago
Yeah, when I was there for the inaugural FH launch we were up at 5am, at KSC by 6, and then I think the launch was at around 4pm. The idea of another 10+ hours baking in the Florida sun... (But, seriously, no one there would have preferred
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by bdunn 7y ago
Was able to grab seats in the "Feel The Heat" section for the inaugural Falcon Heavy launch last year - it was incredible! (Olivier: your writeup brought back a ton of memories.) I especially liked this picture I grabbed of someon
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by bdunn 8y ago
What I teach is largely about repositioning yourself and focusing on the value you create vs just the tech. Not surprisingly, few freelancers focus on business outcomes. Higher budgets and pay are a natural side effect of doing that. Great
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by bdunn 8y ago
We're constantly reworking our marketing site, but to make it more technical for the HN crowd (our audience is mostly marketers), it's an "if-this-then-that" engine for your website. - If referred by foo.com OR came over
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by bdunn 8y ago
Forgive me, but I'm not sure what we're doing that's disingenuous? If you clicked through after the initial welcome page (that just overviews the tool) that's not a lead gen form. That's exactly what the tool adve
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by bdunn 8y ago
Correct. We're leveraging localStorage to save answers across "pages" (using Vue). We could probably serialize / base64 encode the object we've saved and then let someone share it.
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by bdunn 8y ago
Thanks! Yeah, frankly we sort of just threw in that scrolling list of ideas... and didn't put nearly enough thought into the display of them.
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by bdunn 9y ago
https://convertkit.baremetrics.com/ $727k MRR
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by bdunn 10y ago
I own a Model S and have clocked 23k miles on it over the last year, most of which on long roadtrips. I love it. The car mostly drives itself between superchargers, and the SCs are usually next to coffee shops or restaurants. I don't m
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by bdunn 10y ago
Because AR takes mental space, even if someone else you hire is managing it. Focusing on one thing is best. I recently sold my SaaS for the same reason — I wanted to eliminate needing to worry about it while working on growing my other (mor
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by bdunn 12y ago
That's great! We're actually running weekly profiles on people who have used my advice to help grow their business, and I'd love to feature you. Here's the link: http://doubleyourfreelancing.com/student-s
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by bdunn 12y ago
It does. My business goal with my email course is to generate qualified leads for my course. My personal goal is to make people better off than they were before they started the course. If the free course is nothing but the "sizzle&quo
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by bdunn 12y ago
Those who might consider your paid course would only have the persuasiveness of your sales site to go off of. By offering a free email course, you're able to figure out whether Paul's capable of providing you value. If he is, he&#
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by bdunn 12y ago
Not necessarily true. I offer a free email course (also for freelancers), and I position the free course as the strategy - how should a freelancer think about sales? The premium course is the tactics - an actionable deep dive into the c
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by bdunn 12y ago
...Is this built by the same company behind SendOwl? https://www.sendowl.com
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by bdunn 12y ago
I bill by the week. At the time, my agency rate on this project was $10k a week, which included the full time attention of a senior developer (~4 full days), plus part time Q&A and PM oversight.
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by bdunn 12y ago
It has everything to do with freelance web development, because I (a 1099'd freelancer) am still doing web development. I've just come to realize that clients don't pay me for lines of code, therefore I don't sell lines
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by bdunn 12y ago
I've done them all. Here's my writeup on the pros/cons of each: http://doubleyourfreelancing.com/the-definitive-guide-to-pro...
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by bdunn 12y ago
Sure. So I had a client who wanted us to rewrite their 10 year old MS Access app as a web app. The engineer in me would have immediately jumped into "OK, how do I migrate this database into Rails and recreate the functionality and UI o
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by bdunn 12y ago
Justifying your costs by basing what you charge against the costs of a similar employee is a good start, and in my experience it's how most of us start (the old "divide by 2000" trick). I like that Andy makes note that you ne
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by bdunn 12y ago
Yeah, so there's a coupon offered that expires in a week. I'm applying an "Eligible for discount" tag in my marketing automation tool when I announce the discount, and retract it when the sale window ends. And my sales s
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by bdunn 12y ago
I promoted it to my list of ~22k, and asked opt-ins to share it on Twitter. It also got on Product Hunt and a few links from various blogs.
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by bdunn 12y ago
Haven't had a salaried job in more than 6 years, so no. All of my income is through the course I referenced, my SaaS ( https://planscope.io ), and a few other courses/books I offer.
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by bdunn 12y ago
I just crossed $200k in sales since I (re)launched in May, so yeah - about that.
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by bdunn 12y ago
About 8% right now, with an average sale of a little north of $200 (so it doesn't take many subscribers and sales to hit four-figures a day)
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by bdunn 12y ago
I have an email course (autoresponder) -> course sales funnel setup for Double Your Freelancing Rate which nets about $1-1.5k a day in sales, mostly on autopilot. This is by far the most successful funnel I've created for any of my
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by bdunn 12y ago
I think he's mainly trying to weed out people with one-off transactional sales, like online stores. Josh has mentioned a few times that occasionally they'll sign up and end up churning out because the model just doesn't work
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by bdunn 12y ago
I've done, and know quite a few people, who are currently selling framework updates ( https://railslts.com ), a/b testing as a service ( https://draft.nu/revise/ ), and not to mention selling blocks o
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by bdunn 12y ago
Like many others have said in this thread, it's hard to make any meaningful dent in your profit from being a middle-man between your clients and who's hosting their sites. I'm a fan of bundling — which sounds a bit like what
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by bdunn 12y ago
Imagine what it's like to walk into your Podunk suburban bank every two weeks with a $50K+ check in your hands from a company with a .com in their name. Yeah, that was fun. But Patrick's absolutely right re: checks. If cash flow i

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