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The best part about freelancing is waking up, and knowing you have the steering wheel to your own life. You can manage larger clients, scale your business, decrease workload, increase expenses, cut them, or do whatever you want. It's all a big game, and it's up to you.
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If you outsource the correct things and have a working system freelancing gives you so much freedom. This is solely why it works for me, as a remote worker you have location freedom (like some 9-5's), but you can get back to work on your own terms.
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Your income will never be capped. Look at as an example of what a single person can do. Earning tens of thousands per month as a solo designer, granted there are many caveats but your income will never be capped like in a 9-5
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To summarise the CONS:
1. crazy hours
2. wearing a billion hats
3. dealing with failure by yourself
Here are the PROS:
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When something in your system isn't working, you need to figure out why. Something in your flow isn't clicking and it's your job to learn to fix the problem. This is hard because you don't have the time as you need to be working on a project, or putting out a fire somewhere
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You can outsource some of these like accounting, and outreach, or even hire an assistant to help you with client management. However, in the beginning, it's you and you alone balancing all these skills ONTOP of doing the work.
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Wearing many hats. As a freelancer you're in charge of the following:
1. accounting/tax
3. outreach to leads
4. marketing yourself
5. improving your skills
6. doing the work itself
7. project management
8. put out any fires
9. staying motivated
(and more)
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Disgustingly long hours. Designers find themselves working an absurd amount of hours to meet unrealistic deadlines. When you're solely responsible for a project you're going to make sure that the end result satisfies the client no matter what.
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Is freelancing even worth it?
Here are 3 reasons why people think it's not worth it, and 2 reasons why I think it is.
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Take advantage of the tech to help you in your workflow, you can speed up your entire process by 10x using these tools.
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In my eyes, the technology is still too young to really take over the market. You can use this technology in your favor right now by using it for inspiration. You can provide your client with solid examples before doing all the work. You can ask ChatGPT to help you out with copy.
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Combining the two in Figma gets you a solid hero header, but in my opinion this isn't to the level where it will take your job (just yet).
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Upscaling the image helps, but the prompt was not descriptive enough to get a super detailed version of this cruise ship breaking through glaciers.
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Midjourney is a menace for creating imagery. The prompt for these results was "Luxury cruise ship hero header". If you zoom in to the images themselves you'll see that although from a distance these look great the smaller details aren't distinctive enough.
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ChatGPT can create immaculate copy for 99% of websites. Here is an example of a cruise ship company. This is the first iteration I tried, with a more specific brief you can narrow down your results.
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Is AI going to replace you as a designer?
Here's how you can use the newest tools to stay on top of your game 👇 🧵
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Linear Input → Exponential outputs
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Patience, Repetition, 1% Improvement, and Exponential Growth. Layer these over time and you will reach your goals faster in any industry. "Do this long enough and the score takes care of itself."
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Thanks for watching🧵🙏
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Done! Is better than perfect, but try to improve 1% every time. Improve your pacing, your lighting, your mood, your hair, whatever it is but try to improve one thing from the last video. Over time you'll have changed your set up completely without realising. 🚀
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Repetition & Showing Up. Take this one out of any of them, just showing up every single day is the most important part. It's the only life hack you'll ever need.
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Exponential Growth. In the earlier days of posting it took me X amount of time to get 30 views, and no money. The same amount of time now gets me over 2k views, and some money. As the channel grows so will the views. 📷
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Patience. It took me 6 months of weekly content to reach 100 subs. In that timeframe I knew that sticking it out would *eventually* work out. It did so far!
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I've posted long form content on YouTube every week for over two years.
🧵Here are some of the life lessons it's taught me 👇
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Research for an upcoming video:
What are the best niche marketplaces to find a job as a webflow dev?
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This is just the beginning! You can add a direct stripe payment, a link to your invoices, contracts, and just about anything else. As a bonus, they're already on your site and can navigate on their own.
You can see the full idea here: youtu.be/xJ7jHYXT-T8
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Now you can reference the individual projects and case studies depending on where you're applying to. This is what mine would look like:
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Next, create a project CMS. This can come directly from your portfolio pieces, outline your challenges, your direct role, and the outcomes.
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Create a CMS for your applications/proposals, preparing it as you would a regular PDF. Add the name of the company you want to get hired at, an introduction of yourself, the challenges you think you can solve, and some key project info.
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Most people are still sending pdf proposals. These work well but are very time-consuming and aren't very dynamic.
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How To Close More Leads With Webflow CMS Proposals (Revolutionise Your Proposals)
youtu.be/xJ7jHYXT-T8
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Now looking back, I realise how important the support crew around me has been. My brothers and have both been equal degenerates and crazy obsessed about startups as me, we’ve been an unrelenting team to each other.
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Wrapping up this crazy year, the only thing I can say is how thankful I am for everything that happened! 🙏 Thank you for all the new designers following my journey, 2024 is gonna be just as exciting!! 🚀
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They rebuilt apple notes using Webflow 🤯. This might not be practical to you if you're not building something similar, but taking apart this cloneable will teach you the ins and outs of a great no-code project like this.
webflow.com/made-in-webflo
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Incredibly useful for eCommerce, a CMS plotter allows you to highlight multiple points in your images. By
webflow.com/made-in-webflo
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Marquees seem like an easy thing to add to your site but in the end, they take up hours and hours. Duplicate this infinite marquee into your project to save yourself those hours.
webflow.com/made-in-webflo
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A fun addition to any hero, but can also be quite practical. Typewriter GSAP animation. Shows and hides multiple texts. By
webflow.com/made-in-webflo
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The Style Guide is a great base to get started with style guides in Webflow. You can duplicate this and have it be your style guide every time you create a new project. By
webflow.com/made-in-webflo
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