Posts tagged passive income
Blogging Boost - Graphic Designer Lauren Hooker

After six months of struggling to get her freelance career off the ground, Lauren started blogging.
Every day. For a year.

It took off. Her diary booked up months ahead with a waiting list of clients for her business Elle & Company.

We chat about using a business coach, content marketing, hiring assistants, evolving a passive income stream and more.

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Don't let Freelance fill all your time - Graphic Designer Jon Hicks

15 years of being freelance has given Jon plenty of thoughts to share. Long term gigs versus variety. Finding other freleancers to set up a coworking space. Freelancing as a dad with babies to when their teenagers.

Portfolio polishing, book writing, conference speaking, side project creating, payment chasing. The guilt. Don't let freelance fill all your spare time. Let some of it be filled listening to this.

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Strip it back - Web Developer Matthew Brennan

After starting out portraying himself as an agency that covered everything graphic & web design, Matthew's discovered a) his natural niche of web development and b) that clients prefer knowing they're working with an individual.

He's stripped it back: dropped the 'everything' offering, refocused, rebranded and revoiced as 'I'.

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People, Process, Product - Motion Designer Adrian Thompson

Having started out as a freelance motion designer, Adrian realised all the things he didn't like about the industry and set out to create a studio of his own that would change that. Putting people and process at the heart of his team's creations.

From there he sought 'passive income', building digital products - Adrian thinks every freelancer should think about doing the same.

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