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Solo to Studio

Solo to Studio is the podcast for freelance creatives ready to grow up and level up. Hosted by Liam, author of Stop Thinking Like a Freelancer and founder of Tone Agency.

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Knowing the Steps to Growth23 min

Are you ready to hire? How bringing on a Project Manager changed everything

When I was a freelancer, I thought hiring someone meant losing money. Bringing on my first hire - a project manager - was the moment I stopped just doing the work and started building a creative studio.

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From the archive: interviews

Attracting Dream Clients

Freelancers need to understand copywriting too - With D Bnonn Tennant

I have a hunch, which is slowly being confirmed. That as freelancers we do what we can to build a website for our services which looks pretty and which we think might deliver us leads for our service, without changing…

Knowing the Steps to Growth

How to find time for a commitment to be ‘doing better’ – with Justin Jackson

We all have a pretty clear idea of what it might take to earn more or 'do better'. Growing lists of ideas borrowed from blog posts lay atop sprawling Evernote folders and pages of iPhone notes we tapped out while…

Attracting Dream Clients

How do you describe your service? Words matter – with Robert Williams

One of the key points I underscore in the book is the importance of words for freelancers. The way you describe your service to prospective clients on your site, proposals and emails is an often overlooked catalyst for winning more…

Knowing the Steps to Growth

Surviving 26 years as a freelancer with sanity intact - with Shawn Hesketh

It’s sometimes difficult to consider how we’ll still be around in 26 hours as a freelancer, let alone 26 years . So it was a pleasure to host my latest guest on the Freelancelift Q&A call, Shawn Hesketh. A freelancer…

Working Less & Focus

How to offset your freelance earnings - with Nathan Barry

I was joined on the latest Freelancelift Q&A session by Nathan Barry. Web designer turned teacher, of everything from app UI design (with the excellent App Design Handbook ) to self-publishing books & guides (with the equally awesome Authority book).…

Attracting Dream Clients

Focus on the problem you're solving, not the service you're providing

Brennan Dunn was my guest on this Q&A session. Brennan is the author of the hugely successful 'How to Double Your Freelancing Rate' Book. So in this 18 minute all-action session I wanted to dig into the methodology behind that…

Working Less & Focus

Untrain your brain, get off the email drip feed

I chatted with Adii Pienaar , founder of WooThemes and PublicBeta to talk the entrepreneur lifestyle and creating good habits. We walked back through his time at Woothemes and his experience building a "support-first" competitive advantage. We also talked around…

Building an Online Reputation

How to really build traffic and a social following

I had a great chat with a veritable don of the digital marketing space Neil Patel. Neil is the co-founder at Kissmetrics and CrazyEgg and operates a kick-ass blog at Quicksprout.com. You should be leveraging social Build up those channels…

Income Stability

Developing your "Me Project" and building a secondary revenue stream

I was joined for this Q&A call by Corbett Barr. Founder of the awesome Think Traffic blog and the equally excellent Fizzle . Having built several blogs to success and coached many others along the way Corbett is a voice…

Working Less & Focus

Out-run the 'Failure Bear', use your advantages

I was joined on this action-packed Q&A call by Amy Hoy. Former freelance web developer who made the leap into product creation with Freckle (amongst others) and who talks about all things online business at UnicornFree . This was super-enjoyable…

Attracting Dream Clients

Always be providing value - with Tom Ewer

Unfortunately we had a big audio fail on this call - but the show must go on, so here are the notes from the Q&A call Tom Ewer is a professional blogger who's built a service in and around freelance…

Income Stability

Stop making puddles, make waves

David Okuniev is the co-founder of the beautiful Typeform . The recent beneficiary of $750k VC funding, David has come a long way from his freelance UI design roots. This call dives deep into the transition from providing a service…

Building an Online Reputation

Growth Hacking for Freelancers

Bronson Taylor , a serial product builder, founder of the awesome GrowthHacker.tv and former designer. All action as usual, we talked in and around adding value & building an online voice - and the starting points for moving into product…

Attracting Dream Clients

Know precisely who your audience is and find their influencers

My guest on this insightful Q&A session was Dan Norris . Dan heads up WPCurve , Inform.ly and several other product focused businesses following on from his time as a freelance web designer . He has some great things to…

Planning for Evolution

Running lean as a freelancer - with Brant Cooper

An insightful chat with Brant Cooper; author of “The Lean Entrepreneur”, I picked up a lot from the call hope you will too.

Building an Online Reputation

How to get noticed by your dream freelance client - with Paul Jarvis

I was joined on this call by Paul Jarvis. A designer who rarely struggles to have a full pipeline of clients, so what are his secrets?