Some of our wins of 2020 and goals of 2021
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- 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
- Client-developer mutual respect
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Discussion
There should be a directory for partnerships
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- WPSeattle has one for WP designers/developers
- What about for marketing, other services related to website?
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Partner arrangements
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- 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!
- Referral
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Good communication is key
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- To build trust between outsourcer and outsourcee
- Have to be available (outsourcers face is on the line)
- Asana – project management, transparency for outsourcing
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Communication channel
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- Phone (hours)
- Zoom (schedule)
- Calendly, WooCommerce Bookings
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Appreciation for this meetup!
Next Time Ideas?
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- 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.
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Tools mentioned/recommended
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- 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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