January Freelancer Meetup Notes – 2021 Goals

Some of our wins of 2020 and goals of 2021

• • • Client-developer mutual respect
      • Educate clients
      • Set boundaries/expectations
    • Find work/life balance
    • Grow!
    • Focus on big new projects
    • Keep up with all the tech
    • Get through 2021
    • Make side gig the main thing
    • Nurture partnerships
      • Subcontracting
      • Whitelabeling
      • Outsourcing
    • Learn marketing better
    • Run business more efficiently
    • More long term, bigger projects
    • Is freelance WP development right for me?
    • 2020 – lots of good word of mouth
    • Get daughter interested in doing social media management
    • Recurring revenue
    • 2020 good for going to online meetups/events and meeting new people from all over the world

Discussion

There should be a directory for partnerships

• • • WPSeattle has one for WP designers/developers
    • What about for marketing, other services related to website?

Partner arrangements

• • • Referral
      • Informal leads back and forth
      • Can be one-sided (not much incentive)
    • Referral w/ finder’s fee
    • Whitelabel
      • Protect reputation
      • Allows to build their business
      • Trust!

Good communication is key

• • • To build trust between outsourcer and outsourcee
    • Have to be available (outsourcers face is on the line)
    • Asana – project management, transparency for outsourcing

Communication channel

• • • Phone (hours)
    • Zoom (schedule)
    • Calendly, WooCommerce Bookings

Appreciation for this meetup!

Next Time Ideas?

• • • Taxes
    • Lead Generation
    • History, Backgrounds – share your freelancing story
      • What do you wish you knew?
      • What makes a good freelancer?
    • it will be really good if we can do about WordPress products like themes & plugins marketing strategy.

Tools mentioned/recommended

• • • https://wpseattle.org/business-directory/
    • Airtable –  – consolidate/manage online accounts. Content inventories. https://airtable.com/
    • Dubsado for contracts, proposals, invoicing: https://www.dubsado.com/
      • Mixed reviews
    • https://usepastel.com/
    • notion.com / nimbusweb.co / stackby.com / notejoy.com
    • Asana – project management, transparency for outsourcing
    • Calendly, WooCommerce Bookings
    • Harvest – time-tracking
    • David Allen’s “Getting Things Done”

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