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your income, and your life
Think Freelancing is Risky? You’re Right, It Is—the Way MOST People Do it
For most people, freelancing means putting up a website, changing their LinkedIn profile and HOPING that clients find them.
Or, they think that they can rely on sites like Upwork or Freelancer to offer up steady, well-paying work. Nope!
Both of these “tactics” put the control in everyone else’s hands. And when other people control your work and your income, you’ll ALWAYS be worried about when and if work is coming in—and when and if you’ll be able to pay your bills.
The truth is that freelancing IS risky—but only when people get into it without a proven, step-by-step plan for controlling their own opportunities: Finding and landing regular, high-paying work.
You Can’t Rely on a “Safe” Job Anymore
If there’s one thing that’s abundantly clear, it’s that you can’t rely on a full-time, on-staff job as your “security” anymore. Industries change, economies change, heck, even pandemics pop up and all of a sudden loyal employees are thrown into unemployment.
Building a freelance business means you’ve always got your own back. Even if you like your full-time job and intend to keep it, your freelance business means that you’re always more stable and safer because you can dial up that income when and if you need to.
You can freelance part-time for extra cash…but you can also know you’ve got a lucrative safety net and the exact strategy for increasing your income any time you need it.
Following a Proven, Step-by-Step System Puts YOU in Control of Your Income, Your Opportunities, and Your Life
Look, nobody’s born knowing how to build a freelance business! And just like with anything else we don’t know, we need people to teach us.
If you’ve tried freelancing and struggled to make ends meet (or if you’ve been interested but worried about making a go of it), it’s not your fault! Most advice about freelancing comes down to a wish and a prayer.
Wishing and hoping is not how you get to a six-figure income.
If you wanted to build a house, you wouldn’t just get a hammer and wood and start nailing it together, right? No—you’d follow a blueprint; a plan that you know will work and will yield you a stable house.
And it’s the same thing with freelancing. You get to a stable, thriving—and increasing!—income by follow a plan that works. And the good news? The plan is shockingly easy to follow.
Success is possible and you CAN do it.
Meet Your Head Freelancing Coach
JIM JER SEY
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JIM JER SEY
My name is Nicki Krawczyk, and I’m a freelancer, copywriter, and founder of FiredUpFreelance.com. Throughout the past 20+ years I’ve freelanced for multi-billion-dollar companies like Hasbro, adidas, and Keurig, for solopreneurs, and for just about every size business in between. And, for the past eight years, my team and I have taught people to build thriving freelance copywriting careers of their own.
Today, we take the principles and proprietary systems we’d previously only shared with copywriters and teach freelancers of ALL kinds how to build thriving, stable, and sustainable freelance businesses (and incomes!). If you’ve been scared to try freelancing or wondered why you struggled, here’s the great news: There’s no magic to success; it’s just about following a framework that works.
And now, you’re not in it alone.
Introducing the Freelance Success Framework
Get on the proven path to freelance success
—with personal support to get you there fast
What You'll Find Inside:
Getting Started
This is where you’re going to learn the essential elements for setting yourself up for success so that you can build your business and continually thrive. Ever dive into something with tons of excitement…only to give up after that excitement petered out? Yup, this module is going to fix that. This will lay essential foundations for your freelance success.
You’re In Business
No business is successful without specific, carefully made plans. And if that thought intimidates you, don’t worry! This module gives you the exact steps to plan out where you’re going so that your roadmap to success is completely clear.
Your Positioning Framework
The bad news? You’re not the only person offering your services. You’ve got competition. The good news? You’re getting an easy to follow framework for setting yourself apart from that competition and demonstrating to potential clients why YOU are the one they should work with!
Creating Your Professional Presence
Yes, you need a website and social media profiles. But they have to be carefully created and strategic! This module is all about EXACTLY how to create a compelling website and social presence that clearly and unequivocally demonstrates your immense skill and value so that you have potential clients clamoring to work with you.
The Freelance Pricing Framework
Pricing services is one thing that trips up just about every single freelancer. How much should you charge? When and how? By the hour? By the project? Should you sell packages? Great news: We break it all down here so that you can feel confident in your pricing and know that you’re making great money for what you do. Oh, and so you can feel confident raising your rates as you go!
The Client-Landing Framework
This is the exact, PROVEN proven system for crafting pitches that are welcomed, saved, and most importantly responded to by potential clients! You’ll learn how find the perfect potential clients, how to research them, how to pitch them and then how to turn it into a rinse and repeat system so that you can rely on a consistent, strong, and steadily increasing income!
The Project Process Framework
Wondering what happens after you pitch a client? You’ll learn exactly what to do and say at every step of the process – from the call after they get your pitch to sending through your quote to reviewing your work to sending your invoice – and ALL of the steps in between so that you can feel confident and present yourself like a pro throughout the whole process. Plus, you’ll learn EXACTLY what to say when clients don’t respond the way you want them to.
How to Keep Working Coming In
This is all about additional tactics and tools to ensure that you’ve always got ample work—and income—coming in! Ready to be rolling in revenue? That’s what this module is all about!
Introducing the Freelance Success Framework
Get on the proven path to freelance success
—with personal support to get you there fast
What You'll Find Inside:
Getting Started
This is where you’re going to learn the essential elements for setting yourself up for success so that you can build your business and continually thrive. Ever dive into something with tons of excitement…only to give up after that excitement petered out? Yup, this module is going to fix that. This will lay essential foundations for your freelance success.
You’re In Business
No business is successful without specific, carefully made plans. And if that thought intimidates you, don’t worry! This module gives you the exact steps to plan out where you’re going so that your roadmap to success is completely clear.
Your Positioning Framework
The bad news? You’re not the only person offering your services. You’ve got competition. The good news? You’re getting an easy to follow framework for setting yourself apart from that competition and demonstrating to potential clients why YOU are the one they should work with!
Creating Your Professional Presence
Yes, you need a website and social media profiles. But they have to be carefully created and strategic! This module is all about EXACTLY how to create a compelling website and social presence that clearly and unequivocally demonstrates your immense skill and value so that you have potential clients clamoring to work with you.
The Freelance Pricing Framework
Pricing services is one thing that trips up just about every single freelancer. How much should you charge? When and how? By the hour? By the project? Should you sell packages? Great news: We break it all down here so that you can feel confident in your pricing and know that you’re making great money for what you do. Oh, and so you can feel confident raising your rates as you go!
The Client-Landing Framework
This is the exact, PROVEN proven system for crafting pitches that are welcomed, saved, and most importantly responded to by potential clients! You’ll learn how find the perfect potential clients, how to research them, how to pitch them and then how to turn it into a rinse and repeat system so that you can rely on a consistent, strong, and steadily increasing income!
The Project Process Framework
Wondering what happens after you pitch a client? You’ll learn exactly what to do and say at every step of the process – from the call after they get your pitch to sending through your quote to reviewing your work to sending your invoice – and ALL of the steps in between so that you can feel confident and present yourself like a pro throughout the whole process. Plus, you’ll learn EXACTLY what to say when clients don’t respond the way you want them to.
How to Keep Working Coming In
This is all about additional tactics and tools to ensure that you’ve always got ample work—and income—coming in! Ready to be rolling in revenue? That’s what this module is all about!
Also Included:
Personal Help
Via Monthly Coaching Calls
Support and Feedback in Our
Student-Only Facebook Group
You’re starting a new phase in your career, so you’ll have questions—and you absolutely should! Luckily, you’re never in this on your own.
Every month, we’ll hop on a call and you can ask our team any and all of the questions you’ve got via our live, student-only coaching calls. Can't make it? No problem—every call is recorded and posted in your member portal so you can listen at any time!
The freelance life can be solitary sometimes—but it doesn’t have to be! Get plenty of support, insight, and camaraderie every single day in our student-only Facebook group.
When you become a FSF student, you’ll join an amazing group of people just like you in our members-only Facebook group who are dedicated to building their own successful freelance businesses. This is where you can ask questions from your fellow students, get their thoughts and opinions, and share your wins. Plus, our team is in there to share our two cents, too. ☺
Also Included:
Personal Help
Via Monthly Coaching Calls
You’re starting a new phase in your career, so you’ll have questions—and you absolutely should! Luckily, you’re never in this on your own.
Every month, we’ll hop on a call and you can ask our team any and all of the questions you’ve got via our live, student-only coaching calls. Can't make it? No problem—every call is recorded and posted in your member portal so you can listen at any time!
Support and Feedback in Our
Student-Only Facebook Group
The freelance life can be solitary sometimes—but it doesn’t have to be! Get plenty of support, insight, and camaraderie every single day in our student-only Facebook group.
When you become a FSF student, you’ll join an amazing group of people just like you in our members-only Facebook group who are dedicated to building their own successful freelance businesses. This is where you can ask questions from your fellow students, get their thoughts and opinions, and share your wins. Plus, our team is in there to share our two cents, too. ☺
We know that you'll be thrilled with the Freelance Success Framework and with the results you get. In short: the Framework works if you work it.
That's why, if you do all of the work and you haven't gotten results, you can turn your work in to get your money back.
No, this is NOT a no questions asked, money-back guarantee. And, no, we don’t make it super easy to cancel. Why? The point of this policy is to give you full assurance that doing the work will yield the results and safeguard you if—somehow; honestly, inexplicably—it doesn’t. (If you don’t do the work, we’re not responsible for your inability to yield the results. Which makes sense, right?)
We’re serious about freelancing and we want to work with people who are just as serious about themselves and their careers. We’re going all in on you and we want to make sure you’re just as dedicated. You can find the full terms & conditions here.
We know that you'll be thrilled with the Freelance Success Framework and with the results you get. In short: the Framework works if you work it.
That's why, if you do all of the work and you haven't gotten results, you can turn your work in to get your money back.
No, this is NOT a no questions asked, money-back guarantee. And, no, we don’t make it super easy to cancel. Why? The point of this policy is to give you full assurance that doing the work will yield the results and safeguard you if—somehow; honestly, inexplicably—it doesn’t. (If you don’t do the work, we’re not responsible for your inability to yield the results. Which makes sense, right?)
We’re serious about freelancing and we want to work with people who are just as serious about themselves and their careers. We’re going all in on you and we want to make sure you’re just as dedicated. You can find the full terms & conditions here.
Additional Bonuses!
How to Get More Work From Your Clients. The easiest way to get more work and income isn’t to land more clients, it’s to land more work from clients who already love you! This is an exact system for how to pitch more valuable work to clients and keep them always coming back for more.
How to Use Job Boards the SMART Way. Not EVERY type of job board is bad! In this bonus you’ll learn which job boards to check out and how to apply for work and projects in ways that make you stand out from the crowd as the kind of pro these posters are DYING to work with.
How to Get Work from Recruiters. Want someone to bring YOU opportunities for a change? This bonus is all about exactly how to work with recruiters so that you’re a hot commodity for them and you’ve got someone else out there looking for opportunities and pitching your services FOR you!
How to Have Difficult Client Conversations. Worried about what happens if a client wants to negotiate? Or if they’re late paying? Of if they want more work than what you quoted for? Don’t be! In this bonus, we go through ALL of the most common tricky client issues and give you the EXACT things to say to fix the issues in your favor so that you can feel confident you know what to do no matter WHAT comes up!
How to Coach Your Clients to Work with You. Sometimes the trickiest thing about projects is the clients, themselves! But it’s not their faults – they just don’t know HOW to be clients. In this bonus, you’re going to learn how to surreptitiously coach your clients to make theme super easy to work with—all while they’re LOVING what a professional and reliable partner you are.
Advanced Pricing Strategies. Want to get more creative with your pricing? Or offer options that increase the chances that a client will say “YES – sign me up!” This bonus is all about different strategies you can use to increase your revenue and dramatically dial up the value clients see in your work!
Finance for Freelancers. Confused about taxes, insurance, and legal stuff? Of course you are! But you don’t need to be—this bonus breaks down everything you need to know in easy to understand terms and easy-to-do action steps. You’ll feel confident in your finances so you can focus on what you do best!
The 6-Figure (and Beyond!) Freelance Business Plan. If you’re the kind of person who loves planners and journals and action sheets and spreadsheets, then this bonus is for you! You’ll be diving in deep into exactly what you want your business to look like, what you want your life to look like, what goals you need to hit to get you there, and exactly how and when to accomplish your goals! Want a step-by-step, GPS-guided map to your dream life? Here it is!
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Frequently Asked Questions
How long is the course?
The course is self-paced. You can go through it as quickly as you want to or as slowly as you want to. You can dedicate hours a day to it, or, if you only have 10 minutes a day to go through it, you can do that. It’s entirely up to your schedule. And, of course, you get life-time access to all of the trainings so you can even take a break and come back it if you need to. Life happens, right? But you don’t have to worry about it, you’ll always have access to it.
Can you talk more about the live coaching calls?
Absolutely! Every month, I hold a live call for you to ask any and all questions you have about what you’re learning or tactics you’re trying or anything at all. You can send your questions in in advance or ask them live on the call. We vary the times of days that we have the call to try to accommodate our students from all over the world, but we also make recordings of every call in case you can’t make it or if you want to listen again later. As I always tell our students, I’m here for you, so please, please ues me as a resource! Ask me questions! Does that make sense?
Is this course good for someone who’s brand new to freelancing?
Absolutely. I’ve created this course to take you from knowing absolutely nothing about freelancing to having a thriving freelance business. That said, though, this is also for the people who’ve dipped their toes into freelancing but haven’t seen any success. Like I said, it’s hard, if not impossible, to be successful at freelancing without the right action plan. Without taking the right steps. And that’s what we give you – the exact action plan and the exact steps to take.
The Freelance Success Framework is NOT for you if you’re looking for get-rich-quick scheme. I can’t emphasize that enough: This is not a gimmick. This is real career training for people who are serious about creating successful, thriving freelance careers. This isn’t those bait and switch “make six figures in your first month in your pajamas” programs. Those are absurd. It’s perfectly possible to make six figures, but it’s probably not going to happen in your first few months. This is the real deal stuff. It works if you work it, and I’m always here to support you, guide you, and help you.
Does this work outside of the US?
Absolutely! The principles and tactics that you’ll learn work for freelancers all over the world—and they work for landing clients all over the world. No matter where you are and no matter where you clients are, it all works.
How is this different from other courses?
Great question You’ve already seen that a lot of the adages and advice that other freelance coaches give out may SOUND easy or wise, but they don’t actually work in real life. Do they do that because they haven’t actually been freelancers all that long and they don’t know? Or are they trying to sell people by telling them what they want to hear? Either way, we’re different.
This course is based on real-world, practical tactics and techniques—the ones that work, not the ones that sound easy or like they’ll get you rich quick. What I’ve done is taken everything I’ve learned in my 20+ years of freelancing, the tactics that have helped me land and write for clients like Reebok, adidas, Hasbro, TripAdvisor, all of those, and put them into this course. Plus, you have my team’s help and support. Don’t forget that we’re in the weeds with you. We’re not just running this company; we’re still freelancing for clients all the time. We’re in this with you. Our company is only successful when our students are successful. We are all personally vested in making sure you land clients, build your business, and have an amazing freelancing career. You’re not dealing with some far away corporation; you’re dealing with me and my team.
What's the difference between this and the Comprehensive Copywriting Academy?
If you've heard about our company's other course, the Comprehensive Copywriting Academy, and you're wondering how they compare, here's what you need to know:
The Comprehensive Copywriting Academy is for people who want to become copywriters. It teaches them how to write copy, as well as how to build a successful career (either on-staff or as a freelancer). If you want to be a copywriter and you want to learn more, click here.
The Freelance Success Framework is for people who want freelance success in any industry OTHER than copywriting. We've taken the proven tactics and strategies that have worked for our copywriting students and created this course so that people in any industry could build thriving, sustainable freelance careers.
What if I’m not ready to get started yet?
So, as they say, the best time to get started was last year. The next best time is right now. You don’t need to be completely ready! Your lifetime access means that the course is ready for your whenever you’re ready for it. Remember, too, that you don’t need to dedicate 3 hours every night to it; you can make progress with just 15 minutes a day. Also, you may never “feel” ready—there’s always something in life that will get in the way of the progress that we want to make. The key isn’t to wait until the “right time” (since the “right time” will never come), it’s to get started NOW and keep taking steps forward, even if they’re very small steps. You can complete a full marathon making baby steps—as long as you actually take the steps.
I’ve already tried another training and it didn’t work for me. How can I know this will work?
There are a lot of crappy trainings out there. But that’s why I’ve added in my 30-day “it works if you work it” guarantee. If you do all of the work and (somehow!) it doesn’t work for you, you can turn in your work within 30 days to get your money back. It works if you work it!
I’ve bought other digital trainings before and didn’t finish them. Will this be different?
Me too! But with other courses, two big things have been missing. First, accountability. Your fellow students and I are right there in there with you, working beside you, and helping you make sure you stick with it. And second, this isn’t just some little course to teach you some little tactic. This is designed to change your life. You stick with something when you have a big enough reason. And if your reason is that you’re FINALLY ready to have a fulfilling job that pays you well, if you’re FINALLY ready to give yourself (and, if you have one your family) the kind of life you deserve, if you’re finally ready to take yourself and your life seriously, that’s your big reason! You stick with it because you owe it to yourself to change your life!
This is for you if:
- You’ve struggled with building a freelance business in the past OR you’ve been afraid to get started
- You have a skillset you could sell to businesses as a freelancer service provider (hint: You do)
- You understand that real success means you’ll have to do the work—and you’re dedicated to doing it
- You’re open to learning new things and trying new tactics
- You know that nerves or self-doubt will probably pop up, but you’re dedicated to working through them—and reaching out for support in the Facebook group when you need it
- You want to enjoy what you do for a living (and, dare we say it, actually look forward to Mondays!)
- You want to work from where you want to—whether that’s from your kitchen table or a café in France
- You want to be the one who decides how much you work—and how much you make
This is NOT for you if:
- You want to build a business selling to consumers (ex. a kids’ party business, wedding photography, Etsy seller, etc.)
- You’re not open to learning anything new
- You can’t be supportive of your fellow students (we have a zero-tolerance policy for bullies, nastiness, ego, and unkindness of any form)
- You’re not willing to do the work
- You’re not willing to follow carefully laid out steps
- You’d prefer staying in your comfort zone to making the most of your life
What is Your Freedom (and Security) Worth to You? Some Math…
Okay, obviously, you can’t put a price on freedom and you can’t put a price on security. But what we CAN do is put a price on your services and get a quick snapshot at some sample earning potential.
Example 1:
Let’s say, with your Freelance Success Framework training, in a month you’re ready to go out there and get some clients, let’s say you land:
- 2 clients for $500 apiece,
- 5 clients for $400 apiece,
- And let’s say you convert 5 clients to regular monthly projects for $200 apiece
That’s $4,000. And of course, this isn’t a guarantee, you could make much more or less – that’s entirely up to you to put the course into action. Could you double that, make $8000? Absolutely!
But let’s say it’s one of your first months, so you’re just ramping up and you make $4000.
$4,000/$497 = 8x
You’ll have made back this investment over 8 times in just one month.
Example 2:
Or let’s say you land a full-time contract freelancing gig that pays you $40 an hour. (And yeah, I’m being conservative with that rate!)
That’s $40 an hour, times 40 hours a week, times 4 weeks in a month. That’s $6,400 a month, or $83,200 a year.
In that ONE month $6,400/$497 = almost 13x You’ll have made back this investment almost 13 times over.
And that’s just in one sample month. So let’s extrapolate a bit. Let’s say you commit to this, you ask questions, you get feedback, you do the work, and you scale up your freelance income to $100,000 for the year. Six figures.
The Freelance Success Framework will have paid for itself 201 times over.
And over the course of your entire freelance career? Well, we’ll let you do the math on that. ☺
So, You've Got Two Choices
Choice One
Choice 2
You could keep doing what you’re doing, either laboring away at a job that you don’t like, that makes you dread getting up in the morning AND that pays you so much less than you’re worth on top of it. You could keep putting your trust in an on-staff job that, frankly, isn’t worthy of your trust. You could keep relying on one paycheck and one income source. Choice one is to keep living that life, and to keep living it indefinitely.
You confirm for yourself, that your life and your happiness are worth more than what you’ve been settling for. That the 80,000 hours (at least) you’ll spend working in your life won’t be just an underpaid slog. That you won’t be putting your livelihood at risk by putting all of your eggs in one basket. That you won’t look back years later and wish you’d taken the chance to freelance and travel or wish you’d freelanced and spent more time with your loved ones. I mean, regrets like those aren’t what we dreamt about as kids, right?
Choice two is that you move forward and take control of your career, your income, and your life. You can do this and you’re about to get all of the steps and the support to get there.
So, You've Got Two Choices
Choice One
You could keep doing what you’re doing, either laboring away at a job that you don’t like, that makes you dread getting up in the morning AND that pays you so much less than you’re worth on top of it. You could keep putting your trust in an on-staff job that, frankly, isn’t worthy of your trust. You could keep relying on one paycheck and one income source. Choice one is to keep living that life, and to keep living it indefinitely.
Choice 2
You confirm for yourself, that your life and your happiness are worth more than what you’ve been settling for. That the 80,000 hours (at least) you’ll spend working in your life won’t be just an underpaid slog. That you won’t be putting your livelihood at risk by putting all of your eggs in one basket. That you won’t look back years later and wish you’d taken the chance to freelance and travel or wish you’d freelanced and spent more time with your loved ones. I mean, regrets like those aren’t what we dreamt about as kids, right?
Choice two is that you move forward and take control of your career, your income, and your life. You can do this and you’re about to get all of the steps and the support to get there.
