How to Earn Six Figures without a Job — Freelance WordPress Developer Tom Hirst
In this episode we discuss:
- How Tom got started freelancing
- Landing the first client
- Do you need to be able to "sell yourself" to make it as a freelancer?
- Getting out of the "feast/famine" cycle that traps many freelancers
- What are the biggest mistakes that most people make when first starting out as freelancers?
- What would Tom do if he was starting over again today?
- Should you use marketplaces/platforms like UpWork to sell your services as a freelancer?
- Is it important to choose a niche?
- Where Tom gets virtually all of his new leads from
- The advantages of "working in public"
- Finding success on Twitter
- Tom's viral Twitter thread on pricing freelance projects ( https://twitter.com/tom_hirst/status/1277933730078785537
- How to create additional sources of income as a freelancer (besides client work)
- Translating freelance expertise into creating and selling content online
- Tom's new agency, Run the Show (https://twitter.com/rtsagency) that specializes in Headless Wordpress
- What is "Headless Wordpress" and why would someone use it?
You can find links to all of the resources we discussed and more on Tom's website here: https://www.tomhirst.com/links/