Coaching Series: Can Zach take Maia to a 6-figure income ($8,333/month) in 6 months?
Follow their journey through the ups and downs and watch them grow!
Milestones from today’s episode:
- Maia refines its commercial offering while moving towards productized services
- Be clear about your marketing strategy that creates a customer waiting list
- Find clients who fit your digital nomad lifestyle
Coaching highlights from today’s episode:
- When to Prioritize Rate Increases with Current Customers and How to Implement Them
- A simple marketing plan to reach new customers immediately
- Focus on the right type of marketing that leads to getting paid
The DYF Accelerator Community includes weekly live 20-minute one-on-one Zoom coaching with Zach that follows the same format you saw here.
You’ll also have access to our huge library of all past coaching calls, as well as a text-based community and weekly accountability check-ins.
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- 12:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. — Zach hosts the Double Your Freelancing Podcast’s “Six Months to Six Figures” series, focusing on Maia’s journey from starting freelancer to earning six figures, with a goal of $8,333 per month within six months.
- 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. — Zach discusses the format of the series, similar to office hour coaching in the Accelerator Program, offering information for listeners who are interested in receiving similar coaching.
- 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. — Maia seeks advice on prioritizing tasks in her business in order to make meaningful progress, expressing a desire to move away from the role of service provider and focus on personal projects.
- 6:00 – 8:00 — Maia presents its business roadmap, focusing on refining its service offerings, improving its website for better customer engagement, and transitioning to more productive services.
- 8:00 – 10:00 — Zach and Maia discuss his customer acquisition process, with Maia highlighting his current lead conversion rate and his desire to maintain customer volume while increasing prices. Zach suggests prioritizing price adjustments over thorough process formalization due to Maia’s low customer volume.
- 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. — Zach and Maia discuss the risks of price increases and potential loss of customers, with Maia expressing interest in creating a waiting list and limiting the number of her customers to maintain work-life balance .
- 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. — Maia plans to spend more time on marketing, including through her newsletter and Instagram, with the goal of attracting customers aligned with her digital nomad lifestyle and soft-core marketing approach.
- 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. — Zach suggests that Maia temporarily increase her work hours to focus on marketing, which would allow her to raise her rates and be more selective about her clients.
- 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. — Maia accepts Zach’s suggestion to allocate more time to marketing, with the goal of increasing her lead flow and subsequently increasing her service rates.
- 6:00 p.m. – 7:28 p.m. — Zach wraps up the session by encouraging Maia to set weekly marketing time goals and attend accelerator sessions for more accountability, while also promoting the DIY accelerator program to listeners.