dirty solopreneur secret
Austin L. Church
Fractional CMO, Author of Free Money, Founder of Freelance Cake and Business Redesign → Raise your rates, delegate confidently, and free up 10 hrs / wk so you can have a record year while working less
I want to let you in on a dirty little secret of solopreneurship I’ll simply call “templates.”
First, it's important to recognize that the opposite of templates, improvisation or originality, is usually a trap.
When I started my solo career as a freelance writer, I thought that's what clients were paying me for: originality. Brand new ideas. Raw, dazzling creativity in cask strength.
Soon enough, I discovered that I could succeed as an artist (with originality) and fail as a service provider (because I hadn't helped my clients achieve their goals).
I could take a client's money and use it to make stuff that was beautifully useless to them.
That's not a great business strategy, certainly not if I wanted to get referrals, and so setting aside originality in favor of effectiveness represented a kind of liberation for me.
If my primary goal was helping my clients get satisfying outcomes, then I needed some creativity, yes, but usually not originality. Repeating what had worked before was much more effective.
Enter templates, yours or other people’s.
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About Austin L. Church
Hi, I'm Austin L. Church, a writer, marketing consultant, and business coach.
I started freelancing in 2009 after finishing my M.A. in Literature and getting laid off from a marketing agency. Freelancing led to a portfolio of mobile apps, tech startup, children's book, branding studio, and consulting practice.
Over the last 15 years, I've made north of $1.8 million as a creative entrepreneur, and looking back, I see so many missed opportunities.
That's why I'm so passionate about stacking up specific advantages and teaching freelancers, consultants, and creators how to do the same.
I want more of us to find our income-lifestyle sweet spot.
You can learn more at FreelanceCake.com.
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1 个月Agreed! They can be so useful. But I do think it's important to remember that they're a tool, like design software or a grammar checker. To get the most (ahem, anything truly effective) out of them the person using them still has to know what they're doing -- an understanding of why they work and when to go off piste. And have the basics down, the core skills and a grasp of the brand's fundamentals. Otherwise it can be a bit like trying to do MadLibs without knowing the parts of speech...
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1 个月Austin L. Church yes to anything that increases efficiency and frees up time. Who wants to reinvent the wheel all the time. Also “bird-crapping uninformed opinions” just became my new favorite Austin-ism ??
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2 个月Agree, Austin. What truly counts for clients is results. So it should be for us.
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2 个月Templates are a game changer. They save time and get results, no doubt. What kind do you like to use? Austin L. Church