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Onboarding Clients like a Boss - No More Flaky Clients

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About Onboarding Clients like a Boss - No More Flaky Clients

Intro: No More Flaky Clients

Vetting Clients - Build alignment and understanding

Turning Down Potential Clients

Fix Your Contracts

5 Things To Ask When You’ve Signed The Contract

Fix Your Project Management

Fix Your Follow Up

Summary

What You Will Learn?

  • 40% of freelancers entered December with overdue client invoices averaging $2,850 (source: Freshbooks).
  • Are you one of them? .
  • Doing the math, that makes a whopping total of $64.7 BILLION dollars of unpaid work for the estimated 56.7 million freelancers in the US. Outside the US the unpaid invoice percentage goes up to 58% (source: Paypal).
  • How do we ensure we have more good, paying clients than flaky, forgetful ones? How do we build defenses against onboarding flaky clients to begin with?.
  • The answer: build better onboarding processes for working with new clients..
  • How much time, frustration, and heartache could you save yourself if you didn’t have to chase your clients to pay?.
  • How much time, frustration, and heartache could you save yourself if your onboarding process prevented you from signing contracts with flaky clients at all?.
  • Over the span of this class, I’m going to teach you how to build an onboarding system to:.
  • How? We’re going to fix:.
  • If you’re ready, let’s get started!.
  • Who is this guy and how does he know about freelancing?I’m Nick Armstrong: the Geek-in-Chief behind WTF Marketing, dad, author, Ignite, PechaKucha, Startup Week, and TEDx speaker, audio drama enthusiast, and award-winning entrepreneur. Through WTF Marketing and partner organizations, I’ve served a wide array of happy clients ranging from mom-and-pop shops to Fortune 100’s. I’ve co-organized community events like Fort Collins Comic Con, Startup Week Fort Collins, TEDxFoCo, Ignite Fort Collins, LaidOffCamp/CareerCamp, PodCamp Fort Collins, and more. My local efforts landed me a prestigious spot as one of BizWest’s 40 Under Forty for 2016 and the Colorado Association of Libraries' Library Community Partnership Award in 2018..