DreamClients Podcast - Find Better Clients

We're back with a new episode!

This is an interview with Björn Ganslandt about work life balance.

This episode was recorded over a year ago when we were still deep in the pandemic so some references may sound strange.

Some of the topics we hit are:

- Follow up

- Red flags with clients

- How to work the right amount of hours

- Blogging in your own language?

- Raising your rates

There are a lot more episodes coming so watch your podcast feed or sign up at https://dreamclients.io to get notified when episodes are released.

Luke PART 1 Notes

Luke gives his definition of value pricing and goes deeper into value pricing conversation.

Advice for some projects that seems on the face or some kind of positioning but in the end it's so wide and you have no idea where to start.

Dream clients and how to get them.

Talking about the fear of fixed pricing on a project vs hourly value pricing.

Luke goes into specialization conversation.

Welcome to the dreamclients podcast, where we help freelance software developers find more, higher quality clients.

In this interview episode, I talk with Balint Erdi, a freelance Ember.js developer and author of Rock and Roll with Emberjs.

Topics

• Authoring tech e-books
• Passive income
• Conferences
• Mastermind groups
• Follow up
• and much more

Picks

• Book "Authority" -  https://nathanbarry.com/authority/
• Double your freelancing - https://doubleyourfreelancing.com/
• Book "On Writing Well" - https://amzn.to/3AVcUpD
• Readwise - https://readwise.io/
• Book "Value based fees" - https://amzn.to/3wCTD8Y
• Jonathan Stark - https://jonathanstark.com/
• Brennan Dunn email list - https://doubleyourfreelancing.com/newsletter/

On this episode I interview Alexander Rössler of machinekoder.com where he blogs about his specialty of simpler Machine UI development.

Alexander has been getting great traction from blogging, conference speaking and building his personal brand.

We talk about:

• Reusing and white labeling source code
• Follow up
• How he gets more clients through Blogging
• Referring work to your network
• Advice for new freelancers
• Starting out at an agency for market research
• How to leverage your time, speaking at conferences
• Feast and famine cycle

You can find Manuel at CreativePragmatics

As always,  you can sign up to our list to get updates on new episodes, freelance hacks and other actionable information at https://podcast.dreamclients.io.

Picks

• Figma - web based design/mockup/click dummy tool
• Notion - Notes, Kanban, lists, etc.
• Nathan Barry's blog
• Brennan Dunn's newsletter

The first installment of short episodes where I talk about a freelancing topic that I think about quite a lot.

Dražen Lučanin runs a dev team at https://punkrock.dev. He started as a freelancer and has some great advice for where he finds the bulk of his clients.

Picks #

• Measure What Matters - A book about OKRs
• Thinking Fast and Slow
• Marketing for Developers (course and book)
• Jupyter Notebook for Data Science - Dražen's course

An Introduction To The DreamClients Podcast #

Hi everyone. I wanted to take a minute to introduce this new podcast and give you an idea of what it is about.

The goal of the dream clients podcast is to help freelance software developers of all levels to find better clients. And more of them. It will be more targeted at folks who are new or have been doing it for a couple of years.

My name’s Aaron Cruz and I have been freelancing as a software developer, mostly remotely, in all kinds of stacks and industries for over a decade.

I’ve made all of the mistakes and felt the pain of most of the downsides of freelancing. But I also have learned from them and consistently improved my profit, work life balance and customer base year after year.

I am based in Vienna Austria in central Europe which may be relevant because some of the content will be a little more Central European based, like dealing with taxes, and a lot of the guests will be from the area. But almost all the concepts should translate well to most of the world.

There will be interview episodes intermixed with shorter episodes that will be more focused on a specific topic and straight from my experiences.
If you want to join the list and get updated when new podcasts are released, as well as other tips and hardcore freelancing life hacks, head over to https://podcast.dreamclients.io.

Well, thanks for tuning in and I hope this will be as helpful for you as it will for me.