Eléna Potter's guest appearances

Eléna Potter

Scaling Freelance

Jake Kahana

Joe Martin

Abbey Woodcock

Jessica Chan

Avani Miriyala

Preston Lee

Josiah Mory

Jennah Lear

Devesh Khanal

Raj Nathan

Kat Boogaard

Heather Deveaux

Christine Lieu

Nicholas Moegly

Bizzy Coy

OwlTail

Kate Busby

Joining me on today’s episode of Scaling Freelance is Eléna Potter and Kate Busby. Eléna is a freelance designer and illustrator in Chicago and Kate is a freelance web developer who is remote in Lisbon right now. They came together to form the boutique web design studio, fittingly called Busby-Potter. And by teaming up, they offer start to finish websites with Eléna handling the design and Kate handling development.  Eléna, Kate and I discuss:  How they quit their 9-5 to become full-time freelancers How to get clients as a new freelancer Hourly vs Value-based pricing (and why this can make you $$$$) What it’s like being a nomadic freelancer Why they decided to partner up instead of staying solo-freelancers.   Book Recommendations:  Run Studio Run by Eli Altman  Creative Strategy and the Business of Design  Breaking the Time Barrier   Software Recommendations:  Slack Zeplin Harvest TeuxDeux by Tina Roth-Eisenberg   People to Follow:  https://clientsfromhell.net (blog and podcast) http://www.ghostlyferns.com (IG )   Guest Info: Kate Busby Eléna Potter Website - Busby-Potter Instagram - @BUSBYPOTTER  ---   Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scaling-freelance/message

Joining me on today’s episode of <a href="https://scalingfreelance.com/podcast-elena-potter-kate-busby/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scaling Freelance</a> is Eléna Potter and Kate Busby. Eléna is a freelance designer and illustrator in Chicago and Kate is a freelance web developer who is remote in Lisbon right now. They came together to form the boutique web design studio, fittingly called Busby-Potter. And by teaming up, they offer start to finish websites with Eléna handling the design and Kate handling development. Eléna, Kate and I discuss: <ul> <li>How they quit their 9-5 to become full-time freelancers</li> <li>How to get clients as a new freelancer</li> <li>Hourly vs Value-based pricing (and why this can make you $$$$)</li> <li>What it’s like being a nomadic freelancer</li> <li>Why they decided to partner up instead of staying solo-freelancers.</li> </ul> Book Recommendations: <ol> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/2VXRvrN" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Run Studio Run by Eli Altman </a></li> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/33GN9I9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Creative Strategy and the Business of Design </a></li> <li><a href="https://www.freshbooks.com/fbstaticprod-uploads/public-website-assets/other/Breaking-the-Time-Barrier.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Breaking the Time Barrier</a></li> </ol> Software Recommendations: <ol> <li><a href="http://slack.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Slack</a></li> <li><a href="http://zeplin.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Zeplin</a></li> <li><a href="http://getharvest.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Harvest</a></li> <li><a href="https://teuxdeux.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TeuxDeux</a> by Tina Roth-Eisenberg</li> </ol> People to Follow: <ol> <li><a href="https://clientsfromhell.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://clientsfromhell.net</a> (blog and podcast)</li> <li><a href="http://www.ghostlyferns.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.ghostlyferns.com</a> (<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=5&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjsjpKfiqblAhUKj54KHc3OApMQFjAEegQIAxAB&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fghostlyferns%2F%3Fhl%3Den&amp;usg=AOvVaw2G4lvrHLVr10Szw2pVLmC4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">IG</a> )</li> </ol> Guest Info: Kate Busby Eléna Potter Website - <a href="http://busbypotter.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Busby-Potter</a> Instagram - <a href="http://www.instagram.com/busbypotter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@BUSBYPOTTER</a> --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/scaling-freelance/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/scaling-freelance/message</a>

007: Leaving your 9-5 job to go full-time freelance w/ Eléna Potter + Kate Busby