Welcome Freelancer!

Coming up this Tuesday night, August 20:

7 Common Mistakes New Bidders Make
And How You Can Avoid Them

Always one of the most popular in our webinar series on proposals.

We’ll give you a checklist of things to look for just before you press the send button on your proposal.

Catch these issues before you press send and you can increase your probability of success by a factor of 10.

👉 Make sure you get the link for this week? Take a moment to Register HERE

Now, here’s the round up from the Barefoot Consultants world!

See you next week,

Winton

What's inside this week...

• 7 Common Mistakes New Bidders Make And How You Can …

• Feature Article

• Productivity Tool(s) of the Week

• Job of the Week

• Deal of the Week

  • Next Afterparty

  • Upcoming IL Event

This week’s hot tips are from coach Heidi Craig

Feature Article

Freelancers experience the same challenges that regular businesses face. Key skills for excelling in customer service include ensuring clear communication, being a good listener, making a good first impression, and more. 

When learning to be a freelance business owner, understand how to employ yourself and wear all the hats in your business. A good rule of thumb…underpromise and overdeliver. Read the article…

Statistic of the Week

The skills that have contributed to the growth of US freelancers to 78% are skills that 50+ individuals excel in, such as business consulting, marketing and writing. 

Lucrative skills are ones that are presented properly in a profile created according to our system that differentiates our freelancers from everyone else.  

As well, freelancers trained in the Barefoot Consultants system frequently bid on jobs that connect with 3-5 of their keywords and thus have experience delivering on projects in those fields.

Productivity Tool(s) of the Week

Asana

Although Asana is known by many as a great “team” tool, it is also the perfect project managing partner for independent freelancers like you, too!

Its interface offers you multiple views which mimic familiar tools such as Post-It Notes on a wall, or columns on a whiteboard. Because of this familiarity built-in, it can be mastered by even the greenest online project management tool user.

Job of the Week

Our job of the week has been chosen for the starter freelancer with great client criteria. The job description is simplistic yet detailed and the skills required are those that almost anyone has.

This kind of job description lends itself to a very clear proposal with opportunities for playback and keyword usage. As a brand new freelancer, this would be a great job to write one of your first proposals on.

Our Proposal Review Offer…

With the examples used in this week’s Tuesday Night Call of how a Coach’s feedback on a proposal might look… you too could have a library of sentences to plug and play into your next proposals!

With the 'Buy 3, Get 1 Free Proposal Review' product, you have the opportunity to select 2, 3 or even 4 different types of jobs to focus on. 

By doing so, you can build a comprehensive library of proposal copy that covers a wide range of situations. Each proposal will be refined and enhanced by a Barefoot Consultants Certified Coaching Professional, ensuring your submissions are highly specific and persuasive.

What we do…

• review the jobs you’re choosing

• review and collaborate on the proposals you want to submit

• and help you create a library of templated proposal sections

You will find out that the library itself is GOLD as you will be able to plug and play the template sections into all your subsequent proposals, saving you tons of time, mental labor, and stress in the future!

SPECIAL PRICE! 4 Proposal reviews for the price of 3!

Save the Date 📆 Tuesday, Aug 27

Register just once to get Afterparty reminders for the rest of the year!(if you registered since July 1, you are good to go!)

Looking forward to taking your freelancing life overseas? Join in Las Vegas this October!

Winton's Workshop: Friday, October 25th, from 10:30am - 5:00pm