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Make Money Online
[116] Business Puberty
2018-04-02
16 min
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[115] Market Research: How do you identify a company's expensive problem(s)?
2018-03-26
13 min
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[114] General Counseling
2018-03-19
16 min
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[113] I Will Solve Your Problem, and You Will Pay Me
What separates a consultants proposal from a contractor's proposal.
2018-03-12
23 min
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[112] How to Optimize Products
2018-03-05
18 min
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[111] Audio Recording Tips
Focusrite Scarlett Solo (2nd Gen) USB Audio Interface with Pro Tools | First Shure BETA 87A Supercardioid Condenser Microphone for Handheld Vocal Applications MXL Mics MXL-BCD-STAND Professional Articulating Desktop Microphone Stand Shure A85WS Black Foam Windscreen for SM85, SM86, SM87A and BETA87A, and BETA87C Sendt SNT-XMF-6 6' XLR Male / Female Microphone cable 24 AWG Fovitec StudioPRO - 1x 7'6" Deluxe Light Stand Fovitec StudioPRO - 1x Bi Color 600 LED Panel
2018-02-26
16 min
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[110] Why You Shouldn't Be On Call 24/7
Why Alan Weiss says you should put yourself on call 24/7 (and why we disagree with that). Being on call 24/7 disrupts your work/life balance and exceeds boundaries. Unless you're working in a situation like DevOps, Backups, or it's a situation where Something Is On Fire And Costing The Business Millions, it isn't necessary. Links https://alanweiss.com https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/4672/springbank-10-year-old
2018-02-19
14 min
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[109] Productized Consulting for Drinking in Meatspace
What constitutes a Minimum Viable Meetup? Once it starts to go well, how do you expand it out? How do you add things to it? How do you delegate out responsibilities? What happens if you want to stop doing the meetup (and pass it off to someone else)? Links https://ti.to/home https://www.chicagofriends.website/ https://design.football https://creativemornings.com/
2018-02-12
22 min
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[108] The Importance of Sleep
2018-01-29
15 min
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[107] Project Scheduling, a How To
How should you effectively schedule projects? (ex: no deadlines on a Monday) How do you best estimate a project length? How do you schedule work around a break (sabbatical, etc.) How do you ensure that client's respect deadlines? How do you 'reset' expectations if there has been a bit of drift?
2018-01-22
11 min
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[106] "Writing Time is Sacred Time"
What do our writing practices look like? How did we get started writing? How should listeners work on building their 'writing muscle'? Is it necessarily to write daily? Should you just write? Write and publish? Andrew Chen on Writing and Blogging Robin Sloan on "Stock and Flow" as it applies to the writing / publishing process Nick's Newsletter Kai's Newsletter
2018-01-15
22 min
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[105] How to Take a Sabbatical
2018-01-08
10 min
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[104] How to Say "No" to Clients
When should you say no to clients? What's the best way to give a no? How should you politely turn down small projects? How do you avoid making compromises in scope? How do you fire bad clients?
2018-01-01
13 min
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[103] How to Have a Good Phone Call
How do you have a good phone call with a prospect? How do you prepare enough? How long should the call be? Should you leave a buffer after the call? Should you prepare an agenda? How do you determine who is leading the call? How do you end the call?
2017-12-25
18 min
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[102] Reading, Writing, Doing
What's a good balance between educational content consumption and doing the work? Time management Reading may just happen. Optionally: intentionally schedule time around it Implementation: when you finish a book, how do you decide what to read next? -- Tape flag ("This is a thing I want to remember") -- Highlighting -- "This is an interesting thing to know about" and then apply later Rereading to extract notes / directives
2017-12-18
26 min
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[101] Speaking at Local Meetups
Subject of meetup People at the meetup Go to one before speaking If you don't have a good meetup, start one, but don't be the first to speak Good places to host a meetup Good places to announce a meetup Scaling/growing your meetup (as you grow, make sure there isn't an in-group and an out-group) Avoiding Groupthink in Meetups (Creative Mornings: Someone manages it for a fixed term and then passes it off)
2017-12-11
19 min
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[100] Finally, a Legitimate Podcast
2017-12-04
43 min
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[99] The Actual Doing of the Thing
How do you transition from being an "overthinker" to a "doer"?
2017-11-27
15 min
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[98] Books We've Read Recently
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/1517901804 https://smile.amazon.com/Food-Lab-Cooking-Through-Science/dp/0393081087 https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0300215126 https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/1591865484 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_Order https://smile.amazon.com/Calm-Technology-Principles-Patterns-Non-Intrusive/dp/1491925884 Content Design by Sarah Richards Million Dollar Consulting Value Based Fees Personal MBA Interviewing Users Calm Technology Sourdough: A Novel The 12 Week Year The One Thing Deep Work Breakthrough Advertising ($125 + Shipping and Handling) Square Foot Gardening Tools of Titans
2017-11-20
20 min
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[97] Positioning: How Specialized Should You Be?
"Obviously there's a diminishing return if you hit specialization of 'There's one business in my region I can market to' -- how do you know when you've specialized enough" Know your target market, like Ecommerce Know niches within your target market, like Women's Fashion and Beauty or Every Day Carry Identify if there are 20-50 companies in your niche in your target market Identify if of those 20-50 there are 15-20 companies that are paying for consultants, have paid for consultants, or are looking for help solving a problem Iterate. Too many companies come out? Become...
2017-11-13
15 min
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[96] Positioning: How Specialized Should You Be?
"Obviously there's a diminishing return if you hit specialization of 'There's one business in my region I can market to' -- how do you know when you've specialized enough" Know your target market, like Ecommerce Know niches within your target market, like Women's Fashion and Beauty or Every Day Carry Identify if there are 20-50 companies in your niche in your target market Identify if of those 20-50 there are 15-20 companies that are paying for consultants, have paid for consultants, or are looking for help solving a problem
2017-11-06
14 min
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[95] š°ā How To Use Price Anchoring As A Consultant
2017-10-30
08 min
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[94] How to follow up with clients after a project
Why follow-up What outcomes are you looking for What makes good follow-up What resources do we recommend How often should you follow up What should you say in your follow-up Who should you be following up with? What's your next step
2017-10-23
12 min
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[93] Webinar Quickstart Guide
Why run a webinar What outcomes should you look for What tool(s) should you use How do you prepare? How do you prepare your content/presentation What's the format to follow (20/30/10 -- 20 on presentation, 30 on questions, 10 on pitch) What do you do with the webinar video after the webinar Crowdcast Zapier Zoom Webinar Jam
2017-10-16
18 min
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[92] Referrals From Past Clients And Teams
You work with a client. They have a great team. You part ways. Their team members eventually part ways, too. Then they reach back out.
2017-10-09
21 min
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[91] Welcome Packet Overview
Why use a welcome packet What's included in a welcome packet When do you send a prospect a welcome packet How do you update your welcome packet When shouldn't you use a welcome packet How do you get started? What tools do you use to create a welcome packet?
2017-10-02
17 min
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[90] A Single Shot of Bourbon
What do we do when we lose deals?
2017-09-25
21 min
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[89] Closed Doors
Why is it important to close enrollment in courses, and what's the strategy and thinking around opening enrollment?
2017-09-18
24 min
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[88] Speaking from the Right Dictionary
What do you need to do when you want to get more specific and double down on an industry?
2017-09-11
21 min
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[87] Please Don't Buy a Prada Shirt
2017-09-05
08 min
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[86] When Should You Offer a Money-Back Guarantee?
Money-back guarantees are helpful in some situations, and really harmful in others. When should you offer a money-back guarantee, and what should the conditions be around it?
2017-08-28
19 min
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[85] The Dreaded Price Hike
How do you know when to raise your prices? Quantitatively and qualitatively, what signs should you look for?
2017-08-21
13 min
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[84] Educational Products: Creating Your First
What defines success for the product? (Increasing rates, early rung of product ladder, general + focused w/in your positioning, etc.) What type of info product makes sense What's high impact / low risk How do you figure out what to make? How to promote it if you have a small (or no) list? What should you aim for after you've created your first educational product? (Speaking, podcasts, conferences, etc.)
2017-08-14
26 min
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[83] Podcast Equipment: The Travel Rig
In this episode, we dive into The Travel Rig that Nick bought for recording interviews and group panels at conferences or events. If you want to learn more about on-the-road podcasting hardware, listen to this one. (A 'nuts and bolts' episode)
2017-08-07
17 min
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[82] Why Aren't We Making More Money?
Description: In this episode, we answer listener Max's question from Twitter: "Why aren't the two of you making more money?". We go inside our own businesses to examine what we're working on. We discuss when you can say "I have enough" as a business owner and stop focusing on growth.
2017-07-31
32 min
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[81] Should You Offer a Free Call?
In this episode, Nick and Kai discuss if you should offer a free strategy call as a consultant and where an intake call should fall in your client intake process.
2017-07-24
21 min
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[80] Self-Care
In this episode, Nick and Kai discuss how to care for yourself when you're running a business.
2017-07-17
17 min
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[79] Recurring Revenue
In this episode, Nick and Kai discuss recurring revenue for freelancers and consultants: What are the different options for recurring revenue in your business? Taylor Swift is mentioned exactly once.
2017-07-10
13 min
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[78] Whale Clients
In this episode, Nick and Kai discuss how to manage your business when you have a whale client. What should you do? How do you future proof your business?
2017-07-03
15 min
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[77] Information Products and Product Ladders
https://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-Advertising-Eugene-M-Schwartz/dp/0887232981
2017-06-26
18 min
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[76] The One About Coffee (& Tea)
https://www.jteainternational.com http://www.saveur.com/pu-erh-chinese-tea http://us.teagschwendner.com/US/en/homepage.TG
2017-06-19
31 min
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[75] Writing, Publishing, and Daily Emails
How frequently should you publish? It's probably more often than you're currently publishing.
2017-06-12
21 min
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[74] De-Risking the Cthulhu
Have either of you ever attempted to make the leap from consulting to running a SAAS business or other type of online/tech company? http://businessofsoftware.org/2013/02/gail-goodman-constant-contact-how-to-negotiate-the-long-slow-saas-ramp-of-death/ https://medium.com/@nickkokonas/why-we-are-self-publishing-the-aviary-cookbook-lessons-from-the-alinea-book-e89236ab6ca1
2017-06-05
30 min
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[73] Best Buyers
How do you identify and work with your best customers? Kai Davis Platinum Reserve: http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=04282006 1,000 True Fans: http://overcomeeverything.com/4450/hint-3-1000-true-fans/ šø Make Money Online: Episode 13: Your Incremental Steaming Abominationš£ Ultimate Sales Machine: http://www.chetholmes.com/ultimate-sales-machine
2017-05-29
22 min
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[72] Skip Steps 1 & 3
What are our quarterly goals? Why are goals important? What shape should they take? Tiny Habits: http://tinyhabits.com & http://tinyhabitsacademy.org
2017-05-22
32 min
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[71] How do you write more as a freelancer or consultant?
Show Notes šø Make Money Online: Episode 19: Grist for the Mill š£ Darius Kazemi, Tiny Subversions - XOXO Festival (2014) - YouTube Sign up for Kai's newsletter here: http://kaidavis.com Sign up for nickd's newsletter here: http://draft.nu
2017-05-15
24 min
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[70] What do you do if a prospect stops responding after you send a proposal?
What happens if a client ghosts you after you send a proposal? Episode Links The Berkshire Hathaway of The Internet The Magic Email: A follow-up that works
2017-05-08
24 min
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[69] Dear Savvy Entrepreneur
Episode 69: Nick and Kai do a deep dive on important business strategies that you need to know about. Also, if this is your first episode of Make Money Online, we're so sorry.
2017-05-01
52 min
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[68] The First Thing Bought
In this episode, Nick and Kai discuss the importance of the 'first thing' that a customer or clients buys from you (be it a product or a service) and how that transaction sets expectations for the duration of the relationship. Nick and Kai also briefly discuss how to get started with your first product.
2017-04-24
19 min
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[67] Making Retainers Work
Cramming Your Work in a Retainer Hole In this episode, Nick and Kai talk about how retainers function for freelancers and consultants and the benefits of costs of offering retainer based offerings. Nick and Kai also discuss alternative to retainer based engagements to increase your client lifetime value.
2017-04-17
25 min
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[66] Travel Time is Sacred Time
This is another in our series on how to travel well as a freelancer or consultant. In this episode, we talk about treating your vacation as sacred time, what (and how) to pack, how to deal with airlines, and how to vet restaurants.
2017-04-10
39 min
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[65] How to Fill Your Client Pipeline (and What to Focus on This Month)
In this episode, we answer a listener question: If you woke up and had 0 clients and wanted to start filling your pipeline, what do you do?
2017-04-03
23 min
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[64] How Do You Work with Large Internal Teams?
2017-03-27
15 min
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[63] How Do You Move from 90% Client Work to 100% Products?
http://myyearofeverything.tumblr.com/post/607422936/b-e
2017-03-20
27 min
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[62] Pruning a Very Old Bonsai Tree
2017-03-13
25 min
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[61] Why It Is the Way It Is
Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services: Kim Goodwin About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design: Alan Coopers Rosenfeld Media | User experience books, training, workshops, seminars, and experts Web Form Design - Luke Wroblewski Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) Steve Krug Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems: Steve Krug Cadence and Slack by Nick Disabato Revise Weekly by Nick Disabato Other Resources UIE.com, Jared M. Spool IDEO: Reimagining the Shopping Cart
2017-03-06
30 min
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[60] Copy Everything Kai Does
2017-02-27
14 min
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[59] Pig 5 Syndrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/first-citywide-change-bank/n9701?snl=1
2017-02-20
28 min
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[58] Parting Ways With Clients
https://www.amazon.com/Nonviolent-Communication-Language-Marshall-Rosenberg/dp/1892005034?tag=donorsclicks-20 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/22/new-band-of-day-perfect-pussy https://copyhackers.com/2016/11/note-to-self-on-time-management/
2017-02-13
25 min
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[57] Intro to Productized Consulting
What is Productized Consulting? Is it selling information products? The 3 key elements of Productized Consulting (fixed price, fixed scope, fixed delivery) How to transition to Productized Consulting Eliminating Scope Creep Your Step To Getting Started http://99u.com/articles/51208/following-the-hunch-how-to-make-freelancing-into-a-durable-business
2017-02-06
30 min
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[56] Make Money Online Mailbag: This Is Your Fault
2017-01-30
41 min
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[55] Customer Service as a Consultant
http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html
2017-01-23
15 min
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[54] Nü-Positioning
2017-01-16
12 min
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[53] Conversion Rate Optimizing the Conversion Rate Optimizer
https://cl.ly/1N2O273M1S3Z/Image%202016-12-19%20at%202.28.45%20PM.png
2017-01-09
34 min
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[52] One Year of Making At Least, Like, Twelve Bucks Online
nickd on camping
2017-01-02
43 min
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[51] How Do You Develop a Voice
Strunk and White Virginia Tufte, Artful Sentences How I Won The Lottery It's Not For You https://youtu.be/l_F9jxsfGCw The Most Unwanted Song
2016-12-26
34 min
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[50] Dirk's Friday Fresh Fish Flash
Dirk's Fish and Gourmet Shop Sign up for Dirk's monthly Newsletter and weekly Fresh Fish Flash
2016-12-19
16 min
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[49] How You Track down Your Number 1 Skill to Start off Your Consultant Business
A wonderful reader wrote in with this question: How you track down your number 1 skill to start off your consulting business Nick and Kai proceed to break down why (and why not) to start with your skills, how to identify valuable skills, and how to make sure that what you're offering is something that the market -- most likely -- needs. Probably. Want to submit your questions for us to ponder over and eventually answer? Tweet at Kai. Also, positioning.
2016-12-12
26 min
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[48] Getting Unstuck When You Feel Stuck
You are staring at a computer screen for too long. Stop that. Get off the internet. Pause this podcast if you have to. Leave your phone and smartwatch at home. Go to a park. Sit on a bench. Stare at a pond. There are ducks in the pond. Ducks are kind of jerks, but the way they swim is cute. You don't know what time it is. You can hear traffic faintly in the distance. Others care about going someplace, it seems, but you don't.
2016-12-05
13 min
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[47] How To Deal With Constraints When Consulting
2016-11-28
19 min
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[46] It's The Economy, Stupid
2016-11-21
27 min
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[45] Kai Buys a Tent
The Man Burned How did Kai prepare for taking two weeks off of his business? What did Kai learn by forcing himself to make this space? What was the Burning Man like? Burning Man as case study for 'identifying expensive problems' The tl;dr Burning Man hit list (everything Kai wish he had known about Burning Man before he went -- in 5 minutes) http://hammerandcyclery.com/ http://www.chiditarod.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIw7oeZKpZc
2016-11-14
27 min
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[44] Risky Business
What is risk? What's the definition? (Make more money than you spend, economic analysis, etc.) How does that factor into client objections? How do you overcome these objections?
2016-11-07
25 min
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[43] nickd Buys a Dog
One Tail at a Time, the no-kill dog rescue where Nick fostered & adopted Basil. Donate to One Tail at a Time. Basil.
2016-10-31
29 min
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[42] The Problem, She Is Forever Expensive
Following the Hunch
2016-10-24
31 min
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[41] This Episode Will Be Delivered in March 2017
We're working to provide the maximal amount of value from this episode, and we'll be delivering it then ā at which point we'll be permanently raising the price to $1,000. We're terribly sorry for the inconvenience.
2016-10-17
25 min
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[40] Don't Be the Bottom
What's your favorite positioning Double Your Freelancing Academy (Mention 'Make Money Online' when you apply!)
2016-10-10
27 min
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[39] Thoughts on Products
The Long, Slow SaaS Ramp of Death Your Incremental Steaming Abomination
2016-10-03
26 min
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[38] Pricing Your Services
How do you price yourself as a consultant? What's the difference between pricing as a consultant and a contractor? What's the difference between pricing on time versus on outcome?
2016-09-26
26 min
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[37] The A/B Testing Manual
The A/B Testing Manual Periodically Yelling for Profit Note: Nick said there would be a money-back guarantee at one point in the episode. Then he thought better. Now there is no such thing. In fact, if you buy a copy of The A/B Testing Manual, there are no refunds of any kind. We apologize for the error.
2016-09-19
26 min
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[36] How You Signify To People What You Do
The Triumvirate of Positioning, How to Create Referrable Moments What's your favorite positioning (Make Money Online: Episode 18)
2016-09-12
21 min
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[35] Kai's non-planning v. Nickd's overplanning
You have $38 and need to get to Hong Kong in 18 hours. How you respond determines what kind of business you get to run.
2016-09-05
27 min
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[34] Impostor Syndrome
You're incompetent and don't deserve to be a consultant. Except you're great. How do you resolve that?
2016-08-29
26 min
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[33] Setting Healthy Boundaries
https://www.amazon.com/Ethical-Slut-Practical-Relationships-Adventures/dp/1587613379 https://www.amazon.com/Nonviolent-Communication-Language-Life-Changing-Relationships/dp/189200528X
2016-08-22
27 min
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[32] Three Rotting Rutabagas
http://www.mahalochicago.com http://www.parachuterestaurant.com
2016-08-15
30 min
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[31] What Nick Does
https://doubleyourfreelancing.com/business-freelancing-episode-52-eric-white-jobs-done/
2016-08-08
24 min
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[30] What Kai Does
Nick interviews Kai about what he does, what outreach / digital public relations is, how he started his business, the type of projects he's worked on in the past, and the types of projects he wants to work on in the future.
2016-08-01
31 min
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[28] How To Travel Practically Anywhere As A Consultant
SeatGuru KnowRoaming Kai's Recommended Suitcase Nick's Suitcase Sandqvist Lightweight (Nickās backpack when traveling) Timoniās blog post on her uniform The Minimalist Packing List Minimalist Travel from Miss Minimalist JR Liggettās Global Entry The Wirecutterās Travel Gear Nickās folding hangers Muji, for toiletry cases āAll Capsā
2016-07-18
42 min
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[25] Freebie Offerings: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
Freebies are tough. Give away too much and you decrease your value to clients. Don't give enough away and you're stuck without enough prospective clients. Today Nick and I discuss the ups and downs of both sides. Violet Hour at Home.
2016-06-27
32 min
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[23] Incorporation! Taxes! Insurance! These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.
Kai and Nick discuss incorporation, taxes, and insurance and give you, dear listener, a bit of advice on the steps you should take to secure yourself in these three areas. Needless to say, neither Kai nor Nick are lawyers, accountants, or insurance brokers and are not qualified to give legal, tax, or financial advice like a qualified professional. All information in this episode is simply our personal opinions. For best results, you should consult a lawyer, accountant, insurance broker, or bookkeeper local to you with knowledge of your industry.
2016-06-13
45 min
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[16] Choose Your Own (Negotiation) Adventure
Fuck You, Pay Me by Mike Monteiro and Gabe Double Your Freelancing Rate, including Brennan's recommended contract MSABundle, a collection of contracts designed for consultants that Kai uses for his business Kai's Article On Negotiating As An Employee Rands on Negotiation Be Aggressive, a wonderful post on Tumblr that is pretty much Kai's life philosophy for 2014, 2015, and 2016. Thank you for listening. If you enjoyed the show we'd love it if you leave a review in iTunes
2016-04-25
26 min
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[15] Working With Experts
Draft: Evidence, nickd's amazing project on Kickstarter which you should go back right now. nickd's Coaching Practice Kai's Coaching Practice Double Your Freelancing Clients Jeremy Green of Remarq.io, a fabulous tool to turn your text into beautiful documents, content upgrades, books, and client reports Kuma's Corner, please mail burgers to Kai Davis, PO Box 7631, Springfield, OR, 97475, USA. Thank you. Sleep, Kuma's Corner's Burger of the Month for November MemberUp, a wonderful consultancy focusing on growing your membership site's revenue Amy Hoy of 30x500 Thank you for listening. If you enjoyed the show we'd love it if you leave...
2016-04-18
36 min
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[14] MMO Mailbag 3: Nick on Out-Pricing the Competition
In this third and final mailbag installment, Nick answers the question "how does he counter the many low-cost, āstack em high sell em cheapā so-called Designers online currently bidding in 99Designs?ā Thank you for listening. If you enjoyed the show we'd love it if you leave a review in iTunes.
2016-04-15
05 min
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[14] MMO Mailbag 1 Kai on Podcast Outreach
In this first of a three part mailbag episode, Kai talks about podcast outreach. Thank you for listening. If you enjoyed the show we'd love it if you leave a review in iTunes.
2016-04-11
11 min
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[11] Go Back "Draft Evidence" On Kickstarter Right Now
Nick's Kickstarter Project: Draft Evidence, a compilation of essay's nick has written in the last 4 years.Ā Go back this project right now and get a copy. Or else. Cadence and Slang, funded twice on Kickstarter. Kickstarter, a small website for funding creative projects. Nick's Twitter, which I guess he uses. Nick's Zines (not available, sorry, sign up for hisĀ weekly lettersĀ in the meantime) Following The Hunch on 99U Why Wasn't I Consulted, the fundamental question of the web The Brain Audit, on why customers buy and they don't. Relevant for writing a Kickstarter 'sales' page. Freaker Kickstarter Video The Sha...
2016-03-21
34 min
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[8] Getting the Heck Out of Dodge
Nick went on vacation. What happens before you go on vacation? What happens after you return? How do you manage client expectations? What happens if a client oversteps their boundaries? Are you a cheapskate? Thanks, jerk. You can get our about page for free by leaving us a favorable review on iTunes. Screenshot your review, email it to us, and weāll reply with our stupid about page.
2016-02-29
26 min
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[7] Are You Pineapple-worthy?
Today we're digging into onboarding clients, students, and customers. Why? How? What does this mean? References in This Episode: Nick's Welcome Packet Kai's Welcome Packet (nick's welcome packet with white-out applied throughout) Sunn o)))'s welcome packet: http://www.john-wiese.com/zine/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/sunn-australia-tour-2005-technical-rider-1024x791.jpg Big Ideas Set Expectations Explain what you're doing and what they'll be doing Explain what won't be happening Give direction for questions
2016-02-22
32 min
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[4] Kai Buys a Pen
JetPens, where you will buy your office supplies from now on. Tokyu Hands, which is basically IRL JetPens. Go to the Shibuya location next time youāre in Tokyo. The Pen Type-A, āover-engineered to crazy town.ā Platinum; Nakaya. Lamy Safari; Lamy Studio. Kaweco Sport. An Alan Weiss interview where he beseeches the reader to get a Cartier or a Mont Blanc pen. The H. Moser & Cie. Swiss Alp Watch. Ghareeb Nawaz. Girl and the Goat. Alinea. The Henry Graves Jr. Patek Philippe Supercomplication, which is a watch. The Wu-Tang Clanās new album, pressed in a single copy. The designer of Faceb...
2016-02-01
30 min
Make Money Online
[3] How We Got Started
How did we begin our businesses? Where did we come from? And because scale is the only thing that matters, how do we do so? VSAās gorgeous office. Book Yourself Solid by Michael Port. Double Your Freelancing Rate by Brennan Dunn. Kaiās Twitter bio: āYour real internet boyfriend. Its and favs are sexts. I love you.ā Love this episode? Hate this episode? Good. Now it's time to leave a review.
2016-01-28
31 min
Make Money Online
[2] Make Money Online
Now that we are talking to one another, how can we make money online? Methods are discussed; sacred cows are thrown into volcanoes. Show Notes The Simpsons episode which discusses family, religion, and friendship as the three demons you must slay to succeed at business. Kaiās coaching service. nickdās coaching service. The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman. The Goblin Cock from Kumaās Corner, which is a hot dog on top of three strips of bacon on top of a burger, with all of the Chicago dog trimmings. Business owners eat the Goblin Cockā¦Ā infrequen...
2016-01-25
34 min