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…
In Chapter 4 of the book, one of the tactics I give for (indirectly) finding potential clients is by creating content and resources that benefit your local community. The idea is that they see it, it helps them, and then they a) refer it (and you!) onto other people, and b) hopefully remember you if/when they need you to do some freelance work for them. One of the examples I gave was one of my…
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 since I’ve published a guest post on Anti-Sell,* but I’m really pleased to welcome Dan White on the blog. Dan and I have known each other via Twitter for a good long while now, and when he pitched this post idea to me, my genuine reaction was along the lines of: “OMG, yes! YES!” 😆 It fits in with the whole ethos and spirit of Anti-Sell so, so well – as…
This post started life as a Twitter thread: I’ve been freelancing for 9 years. I don’t earn £100k+ per year. I keep seeing tweets from people saying they earn £100k/$100k+, & it’d started making me feel like a failure in comparison. But then I realised something… (Wanted to get this off my chest for a while…) (1/21) — Steve Morgan (@steviephil) April 22, 2022 However, given that a) I’m a big fan of blogging, b)…
