Building a freelance translation & copywriting business with Katie from KatieUniacke.com
In this episode we discuss:
- Freelancing from the beautiful city of Granada in Spain with UK native Katie.
- Using Fiverr and Upwork to start your freelance business
- Getting banned from Upwork due to a client asking her to accept payment outside of Upwork 7:40
- The importance of niching down - Katie specialises in Spanish & Portugese translations to English & copywriting
- Living in Mexico for a year teaching english 12 hours a week & working on building a client base on the side.
- Moving home (in with the parents) to focus on building her freelance business!
- Using professional job services like TranslatorsCafe and Proz to grow client base 9:00
- Using Social Media to grow the business 12:54
- Content paralysis, the struggle of social media & focusing on the next thing to move the business! 16:30
- The freelancer struggle 17:38
- Shiny object syndrome & why the boring & mundane is super important!
- Kate Toon's Book - Confessions of a misfit Entrepreneur
- ScrewTheNineToFivePodcast & AlexBeadon
- What takes the time - Finding clients! 28:10
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