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Client Relations Make client relations part of your business model Be timely with responses Be a little flexible in your process to help balance different types of clients Expectation Management Define project goals at the start and be up front with clients about requests that constitute scope changes. If you are struggling defining project scopes to …
1 Aug 2019, 10AM | Good Shepherd Center – Wallingford Planned Topic: Freelancers – Client Relations Actual Discussion: since 4 attendees were new to the group and to having a business we mostly covered business models and all things related to getting started as a freelancer Hosts: Sheila, Patty, Vanessa | Attendees: Sam, Nate, Austin, …
The guest speaker was Robbin Block of BlockBeta Marketing: https://www.blockbeta.com/ Robbin has generously provided her slide deck and resources here: Google Marketing Stack_blockbeta FAQ to Homepage Blockbeta-Wordpress-Freelancers-2019-FS-c The following are notes taken by community member Jeanne Cost. Thank you! Marketing is about who you are. What if you have few leads or are not closing …
Lean Canvas If you are familiar with Lean Startup, this is similar. Slides on Google Drive AKA One Page Business Plan Great for brainstorming and getting ideas onto a piece of paper. Great to use with clients that don’t have a biz plan. “Lean” comes from Lean Manufacturing. Toyota way: don’t waste things. If cars …
This month we did an exercise where we each discussed our “super powers” and ideal clients. Afterwards we paired up to do accountability with each other. David Superpower: “It’s your website!” We help (enable?) people get the most out of their websites when they’re not able to. – “Orphan” sites, DYI, designers and agencies who …