It’s time for another Anti-Sell Story! (You can see previous Stories here on the blog and/or in the book!) This time we have Alexis Charkiw (or “Lex” for short). Lex and I live locally (South Wales) and both know each other through Welsh ICE, the coworking space and startup hub based just outside Cardiff. I’ve known Lex since her previous business (before her current freelance bookkeeping practice), so it’s been awesome to see her business…
The next Anti-Sell Story in our series is from an old uni buddy of mine! Joe and I met when we were both students at Lancaster University, back in… *checks dates* …a long time ago! 😅 We were both involved with the live music society, the student radio station, and just generally within the city’s gigging scene (Joe plays a mean bass guitar, FYI). Other than the very occasional catch-up message, Joe and I lost…
It’s time for another Anti-Sell Story, where I interview freelancers and ask them how they get work and clients. There were originally eight in the book, and since then I’ve done a few more on this blog. This time we have Surena Chande, a freelance journalist (who’s also worked on the ‘other side,’ in PR). Surena and I met at brightonSEO a few years ago, and since then we’ve mostly kept in touch on Twitter.…
It’s been a while (October 2020) since I last published an Anti-Sell Story on the blog – but what a comeback! This time I’m honoured to be interviewing Sarah Townsend, who’s a long-term freelance copywriter as well as the Amazon bestselling author of Survival Skills for Freelancers. In this interview we talk about her approach to networking and sales across her long-standing freelance career… A few highlights from Sarah’s Anti-Sell Story: Sarah’s found that being…
For our third Anti-Sell Story (and 11th overall, if you count the original 8 from the book), I asked Talia Loderick for her experiences doing sales and networking as a self-employed money coach & financial education consultant, who – prior to that – was a freelance journalist. We met when Talia first toured Welsh ICE (the awesome coworking space) a few years back – and possibly before that at a random meetup as well. A…
