At brightonSEO October 2020 I gave a talk titled Going Solo – The Survival Guide for Freelance SEOs (Present & Future), which gave advice to aspiring, new and longer-term SEO freelancers. I contacted a bunch of wonderful fellow freelancers for their input and their tips to include within the talk itself, but with a total talk time limit of just 20 minutes, I overestimated how much I could cram in. So instead, I’m including their…
To some, Steve Folland needs no introduction. To a small, biscuit-obsessed few, if you start singing 🎵 “Biscuits Covered in Gloooooryyy…” 🎶, the Car Park of Dreams immediately comes to mind. That’s because Steve is a hero in the freelance community – and I don’t feel like I’m exaggerating when I say that. He runs a Facebook group with over 2,000 freelancers as members, produces a popular podcast where he’s interviewed over 200 freelancers spanning…
This story took place in June, which was only three months ago, but – in the ongoing mid-pandemic/mid-lockdown predicament we find ourselves in – it feels like 1,064 years ago… I’m a member of multiple Facebook groups – some intended for freelancers nationally, some intended for small business owners in my local area. Most (if not all?) of them have strict ‘no self-promotion’ policies though – the idea is that you go in and help…
Let’s talk about networking during a pandemic – a sentence I never thought I’d type before 2020 came along, but here we are… Over a year ago, I wrote and self-published a book all about business networking in a non-salesy way. As you can likely imagine, it gave many recommendations related to offline/face-to-face networking, such as going to events and coworking spaces. Because at the time, those were things that actually happened! …Then COVID-19 came…
In Anti-Sell, there’s eight case studies of freelancers and small business owners who each give examples of how they’ve found clients in a non-salesy way, which I called “Anti-Sell Stories”. This post marks the ninth Anti-Sell Story, and the first one on Anti-Sell.com (if you access this at a later date, you should able to see more Anti-Sell Stories here). As the first one on the site, it’s a pleasure to invite my good friend…
