Agency
Take out a piece of paper or an index card and jot down everything you would love to find in a client.
Aaron Mahnke • Frictionless Freelancing
say, “See, this is what we agreed to!”
Aaron Mahnke • Frictionless Freelancing
While an audience is a group of unique individuals, a significant issue arises when our individual needs are overshadowed by the appeal of aggregated data, a metric tethered to one’s social status.
In this scenario, we become mere data points on millions of AI-driven newsfeeds, puppets in an entertainment game where we are both actors and audience —... See more
In this scenario, we become mere data points on millions of AI-driven newsfeeds, puppets in an entertainment game where we are both actors and audience —... See more
I also don’t require a new contract for each project. My contracts are written, in a sense, to be a meta-contract that oversees the entire relationship through multiple projects. Once my client has signed a contract with me, they’ll never have to do so again.
Aaron Mahnke • Frictionless Freelancing
that you are serious about being paid, just as serious as you are about delivering the results
Aaron Mahnke • Frictionless Freelancing
For the least amount of friction, consider crafting a simple contract that covers the basics that all projects would require.
Aaron Mahnke • Frictionless Freelancing
When I looked deeper into why that was the case, I discovered that they just had a swagger combined with a killer instinct. They had that certain confidence that some other firms lacked, and their success came in spite of their positioning and not because of it. Even more contradictory to my initial thesis is that these poorly positioned firms were
... See moreDavid C. Baker • The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
Something to try the next time you’re considering a product or a service: spend a little time thinking about the motive behind it. It’s something that’s easy to skip entirely, especially when we’re busy evaluating a thing by its far more obvious and surface-level criteria. But motive is really important, and I think it can be an effective filter fo... See more
Neatnik Notes · Motive as a filter
Contracts offer confidence to the client.