You know you found the right skill when you can fail for hours and hours and not want to punch a hole in your computer
Remember:
People think you fall in love with a skill and then get good
That's wrong
You need to get good to fall in love with a skill
Keep this in mind
February - Building your personal brand
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Having a personal brand is key to getting clients
With a personal brand prospects don't have to guess if you're legit or not
Can't stress enough how important this is
Post this kind of content:
• Knowledge about your industry
• Actionable tips
• Entertainment mixed with value
Basic content strategy:
Twitter:
- 4 tweets a day
- 1 thread a week
- 20 replies a day
- send dms to the people you're building rapport with
Instagram:
- 3 reels a week
- 1 post every day
- at least 5 stories a day
- Comment 20 posts a day
March - Networking
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Networking is going to put you 10 years ahead in a couple of months
1. You build a relationship with a powerful person 2. That person talks about you to their group 3. You now have a bunch of powerful people on your side
Remember:
Never ask for anything, just give value consistently
- Like their posts
- Comment
- Retweet
- DM them with something of value that can help them (be cool about it)
Once you get to that 5,000 followers range people start comingo to you
You just have to post quality content
And it's like shooting fish in a barrel
Outbound:
Outbound means you're actively trying to get clients
There's a couple of ways to do this:
-Cold Emails
-DMs
-Networking
Just make sure you provide value before offering your services otherwise you'll seem pushy and desperate
Use both methods
-Inbound
-Outbound
> Send 10 DMs and 10 Emails a day
> Network and associate yourself with successful people
> Post quality content
> Reply to your followers
> Answer all your DMs
Do this and you're guaranteed to get clients
June - Raising your prices
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You're not going to charge people $5,000 right away, you're in the biz for the long-term so you will build your value first
The 9-5 model works - it puts food on the table, pays bills, gives you benefits. So, your 9-5 ain't the problem.
A thread that may just WAKE YOU UP/
The problem is you're limited by:
1) The job market in your area 2) Commutes to work/home 3) You're renting your time (usually 40 to 80 hours) 4) Can only work for one job in most cases
There are other factors as well, you get the point.
You've got zero leverage in the situation. Meaning you only get paid for the hours rented regardless of how much money you make them.
Whether you earn them an extra $50k profit or $10k doesn't benefit you that much.