Choosing The Right Freelancing Niche [audio]

Choosing The Right Freelancing Niche [audio](simplecast.com)

70 points by chris_hawk 9 years ago | 15 comments

chris_hawk 9 years ago |

Hey! Interviewer here. This is my recent talk with Connie Holen, who is kind of a badass - how many web designers do you know who are former fighter pilots? O_O

Anyway. Connie is pretty cool and she figured out some useful things about running a freelancing/consulting biz. If you want to chat about the episode or have any questions, I'll be around.

Hope you find this useful. Thanks!

derekja 9 years ago | |

I really wanted to subscribe to this podcast in my RSS reader, it was a nice episode! Unfortunately, I could find no way to download the audio and my usual use of podcasts is to listen during a commute when I have unreliable internet. Without the ability to download it is unlikely I will continue to listen. There's even a link on the 100kfreelancing site that says "download mp3" but it doesn't work and just links again to the streaming web player.

chris_hawk 9 years ago | | |

Nice catch! I fat-fingered the download link.

It's been fixed now, feel free to download. If you want to save the click of going to 100kfreelancing.com first, here it is:

https://audio.simplecast.com/70348.mp3

Thanks for pointing that out, I would have missed it.

komali2 9 years ago | |

Any chance these podcasts are transcribed somewhere?

SyneRyder 9 years ago | | |

Looks like it isn't online for this episode yet, but usually Chris has full transcripts on the 100kfreelancing.com website. It'll probably appear here when it's ready:

http://www.100kfreelancing.com/0117-choosing-right-freelanci...

chris_hawk 9 years ago | | |

SyneRyder answered for me, so I'll just say "thanks for asking"! Sometimes I wonder if anyone is actually reading those things, and now I know.

zengid 9 years ago | |

What was the clunky scheduling software mentioned around 7:00?

chris_hawk 9 years ago | | |

It rhymes with SchmindSchbody.

It's not a bad system, I actually like it quite a bit, BUT...it has some definite pain-points associated with using it!

tertius 9 years ago |

For those looking for the RSS to add to your podcast player.

https://rss.simplecast.com/podcasts/2725/rss

chris_hawk 9 years ago | |

Thanks! I should probably share that more prominently on the website.

rezzz-dev 9 years ago |

Great episode! I know that when I focused my business and really only targeted one kind of client, my revenue went up.

My monthly recurring revenue 10X in just 6 months.

chris_hawk 9 years ago | |

10x is craaaaazy. I mean, unless you were only making like $500/month before. And I know that's not the case! :)