Ask Yourself These 3
Questions:
Do you dread Monday mornings and going to a
job you don't really like?
Have you been thinking about freelancing
but afraid to move forward?
Would you like to learn from someone who
made a successful
transition from the corporate world to the freelance world?
I'll spare you the sales hype.
This book is simply the story of how I went
from working for one of the most famous companies in the world, to
becoming a freelance marketing communications writer, and then a
direct market graphic designer who hardly does any marketing,
yet is still busy with paying projects.
The book is called, I Still Can't Draw
Good Stick Figures...But I found success as a freelancer. Here's
what I've learned along the way. Quite a mouthful,
eh? I explain in the book how I came up with the name.
And for the record, I didn't draw the stick figures on the
cover. But that's not important now.
I have two main goals with this book:
1. I want to inspire you to keep pushing to
achieve your freelance goals.
2. I want you to get some ideas that you
might be able to adapt to reach your goals, or at the very
least see some things you should avoid.
The fact is, no one can 100% duplicate what
someone else did to achieve a goal that involves significant
changes to one's life and attitude. But you can learn from my
mistakes and successes. Hopefully, the most important thing
you’ll take away is that there is always a way if you’re
committed to finding it.
I’ve broken down the book into sections that
will give you a rough timeline of how things happened. So we’ll
all on the same page - pardon the pun - I’m starting the story
just prior to starting as a freelance writer, which then led to
becoming a freelance designer. I think it will be helpful for
you to know what was going through my mind as I jumped from the
corporate world to the freelance world. Also, many of the
mistakes I made were during my freelance writing time, so it’s
important I share those stories. That makes up about half
the book while my design experiences make up the other half.
Here are some of the things I talk about over
the book's 55+ pages:
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How a failed design project turned into a
job that is responsible for almost all the work I get.
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My worst project and how it could have
been avoided.
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Whether spec work is worthwhile.
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Why my first writing client put me on a
path not to make great money.
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Why you need to be very particular about
who you listen to as you build your business.
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The question from a potential client that
changed the course of my career.
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All the marketing attempts that failed
and what, ultimately, became my best marketing vehicle.
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The most important thing I'm going to share
with you is something that changed my business around in a big
way. It was a way to know how to target the right clients. For me, this
was incredible advice.
This is not a how-to book or
step-by-step book. I'm not going to tell you how to
price projects. The book simply allows me to share my successes
and mistakes on the way to this point where I now work
from home, doing work I love. It's just my story and the
lessons I've learned along the way.
If you know me from one of the many forums I
used to frequent, you know I'm always happy to share what I know.
But as my business has grown, I've had to restrict the amount of
time I can spend on forums. (In fact, in the book I
explain how something strange happened when I stopped many of
the extra-curricular activities I was involved in.) Since I tend to get asked the same questions
over and over, it was time to put it into an eBook.
I don't have any problem charging for the
book, but I'm not going to rip you off, either. And I'm
not going to try to convince you that the price you'll pay is
"half-off the normal price." For now, I'm selling this
eBook for only $12. If you were to take me out to lunch
and pick my brain, you'd pay more than that unless you were
planning on us sharing a Happy Meal at McDonald's. I think that's a fair price if you're
serious about jumping into freelance work, especially freelance
design. (Most of what I talk about is easily applied to
other types of freelance work, too.)
Like I said, I'll spare you the sales hype.
You can become a success without reading this book. But I
also know from talking to other beginning designers and writers
that they want to know how people just like them got started.
That's what this book is - just one person's story of how he
did it.
Here are some other questions
you have to ask yourself: Are you where you want to be
right now? If not, why not? Are you afraid to take action?
Do you not have the tools you think you need? Are you
waiting for something magical to happen to save you? And
most important...where will you be one year from now if you
continue to do nothing? If you want to hear from someone
who got tired of "doing nothing" and took action, this book is
for you.
Once you've placed your order through PayPal,
you'll be taken to a download page where you can download the
PDF. If you have any problems, you can always e-mail me
and I'll help you out.
Buy the eBook now via PayPal for $12:
IMPORTANT: When you click on the Buy Now link, you'll be taken to PayPal to log into your account. Once the purchase is complete, PayPal will transfer you automatically to a site that has the download information. From there, just click on the link to download the eBook. If for some reason you have any problems downloading the eBook, don't hesitate to e-mail me.
I do believe this book has something to offer
you. I wouldn't have written it otherwise. But you
have to make the decision to learn from my mistakes and my
successes. I hope you'll do that because working as a
freelancer is the most rewarding work I've ever done. Here
are some other benefits that I get from freelancing:
No more worrying about how secure my job is.
No more asking permission to take time off for a family activity
or vacation.
No more being told how much I can make.
No more commuting.
No more dreading Monday mornings.
I
want you to experience that as well if that's your goal.
So here's what I know that, hopefully, you will apply in some way
to your own life.
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