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  1. Nicoknowsbest

    Paid Traffic For Creatives

    EXECUTION 
    Why am I doing this? It's been almost a year that I have started being a freelancer. After a bumpy start and a quick take-off, work coming from in-bound leads has dried up a little over the summer. It seems like the network I have is saturated for now, and if I tell my network one more time...
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    Paid Traffic For Creatives

    EXECUTION 
    Thanks for the tip @masterpuff. I looked into it - great stuff. I'll most probably go ahead and have it run on my dedicated landing pages to fine tune the page (and the offer). Will report back how this affects the overall process. Thanks @ExcelGuy! As @Andy Black always points out, the best...
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    A Degree is NOT a Fall Back Plan, SKILLS Are

    NOTABLE! MINDSET 
    Great post @carlos_, thanks for sharing. A lot of what you said sounds very familiar. I have wasted years looking for a perfect skill to learn. I have wasted years trying to learn everything at the same time. I have wasted years solving problems I didn't have back then. I have wasted years...
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    AndyTalks with @Scot about business failure and talking to people

    Thanks Andy! The ONE thing for me was the discussion about needs and wants. I hadn't look at it like this before, so this was really an eye opener for me. If I take this learning and apply it to my industry, I have to admit that there might be a lot of people who need me (especially , but...
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    AndyTalks with @Tweeve11 about generating web design leads and business learnings

    MARKETING 
    I like distilling a lot of input into its essence - I somehow have fun doing it. Thank you very much for the rep sent, much appreciated! Thank you so much for this - I'm very happy they help! I'm just about to start out on Social Media in my industry, so I can't really answer this. Just...
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    AndyTalks with @Tweeve11 about generating web design leads and business learnings

    MARKETING 
    Excellent call @Andy Black and @Tweeve11! I again learned many things I'd do differently going forward - thank you guys for letting me learn with you. Some important insights for me were: @Tweeve11 brought up an interesting point about the overall industry. The last couple of years have seen...
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    AndyTalks with @Scot about business failure and talking to people

    Awesome call guys, thanks @Andy Black & @Scot! Some of the things I wrote down were: As @The-J already mentioned, most of us seem to be Internet people here on the forum. Internet people know how to handle a computer, buy data, analyze data, build stuff and just get lost in their worlds. Some...
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    [Progress] Graphic Designer Going Freelance & Fastlane

    EXECUTION 
    UPDATE: The summer has been interesting, but also showed me that I need to move on and develop myself further. Let's see what happened: I finished a big, ongoing contract at the end of June and was left with a significant drop in income and some more time to think about what happened over the...
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    Paid Traffic For Creatives

    EXECUTION 
    Hi @MiguelHammond10, thanks for your comment. Is there anything specific that you could take from these postings? What will you change going forward?
  10. Nicoknowsbest

    Sales is a screening process

    MARKETING 
    I'd try to convert the ones who were skeptical about my offer far too long. This reminds me of you saying in one of your interviews that we should look for the apples already falling out of the tree - and put baskets underneath. I tried too hard shaking the tree so the green apples would fall...
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    Paid Traffic For Creatives

    EXECUTION 
    Chapter 1: AdWords. Week 05 W/C 28-Aug-17 I didn't have campaigns running until Friday afternoon that week. Although I only collected data three days that week, we can see that I more than doubled my impressions compared to previous weeks: Changes compared to the previous weeks: My...
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    Paid Traffic For Creatives

    EXECUTION 
    Chapter 1: AdWords. Week 03 & 04, W/C 14-Aug-17 & W/C 21-Aug-17 Again, I left the campaigns untouched and gave it another try. Here's the data for week 3: The stats look nearly identical to the previous week Slightly worse average position, slightly higher average CPC, but roughly 10%...
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    Paid Traffic For Creatives

    EXECUTION 
    Chapter 1: AdWords. Week 02, W/C 7-Aug-17 To collect more data, I didn't change a thing going into the second week. I left my two initial campaigns untouched and worked away on my clients' projects. What happened with the prospect from last week? I talked to him on the phone and followed up...
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    From £0 - £2.3m turnover in 3 years - Cold calling - AMA

    EXECUTION 
    First off all, welcome to the forum @Jerwood! Congratulations on your success, this is execution on steroids - very inspiring. I love the industry. Very rough ground, but if you make it there, you can make it anywhere. Can't wait to hear more :) This. Somewhere I read you should be...
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    Comparing Work Hours to Other People

    MINDSET RANT 
    "Playing with sand is for kids." (heard from @Andy Black - I believe he quoted Blaise Brosnan) Imagine you have an empty jar. Imagine you have rocks, pebbles, sand and water in front of you. The rocks represent your biggest, most important tasks. The pebbles stand for less important tasks...
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    Show, Don't Tell

    MARKETING 
    This really resonated. I recently designed a brochure for a local company. We agreed on the budget and on my hours. The responsible took it to her boss, got it signed off and got me paid. Now, I accidentally ran off into a different (design) direction than expected and half of the budget was...
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    AndyTalks with @Vilox about Cold Calling & Getting Over Yourself

    MINDSET 
    "I just bang my head against the wall until it cracks. If it doesn't crack, I just move to another spot on the wall and try again." - @Vilox Seriously a great call. So many lessons for people at all stages of their cycles. It personally resonated with my quite well, because I could see many...
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    What are your shortcomings?

    I am incredibly impatient.
  19. Nicoknowsbest

    I think I'm going to delete all Social Apps, is it good?

    HOT! PEOPLE 
    For me and the team I am part of, being in Facebook groups helping people generated quite some leads. It also helps to establish yourself as an expert, the go to guy for what you are doing. Instead of blogging by yourself, you could go where your target market is hanging out and provide value...
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    Paid Traffic For Creatives

    EXECUTION 
    Chapter 1: AdWords. I was lucky enough to be a beta tester for @Andy Black's Marketplace - Andy's AdWords Course - Get found by the people already looking for you. Whizzing through the course within half a day, my fingers were itchy to get going. I held myself back for quite a while, because I...

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