CoachLancer Hotline allows you to get my personal help for starting a freelance business on the right path!
I can no longer reply to direct messages using any other means. It is purely a matter of the volume of messages I’m seeing on a daily basis. Please read below why and how CoachLancer Hotline works better for both you and me!
Why CoachLancer Hotline: The backstory
Since 2015, I’ve had several Ph.D. students and first-time startup CTOs whom I have helped as an external advisor… which became a master-apprentice relationship – exactly like that of a personal coach. I can call the process a success as those 3 students of mine finished 5 Ph.D. degrees in total.
Since 2017, I’ve been coaching young talented freelancers I worked with on various projects to increase their income.
Since 2019, I’ve been writing these CoachLancer articles and sharing all my knowledge regarding freelancing for free. There are well over 100,000 words worth of tips, tricks, hacks, and guides that help you become a better freelancer! I also started posting freelancing tips on LinkedIn every week.
In 2020, Upwork named me as one of the Community Gurus and a Community Featured Contributor (after only about 3 weeks of posting Upwork tips). Less than a year later, Upwork renamed their famous Coffee Break forum section Coffee & Coconut Break for a while after my successful petition aimed at inspiring all freelancers on Upwork to not work for peanuts but to go straight for coconuts. 😉
I’m now closing 1,000 posts on that forum and my coconut-powered brand is known to just about everyone out there, freelancers, clients, and community moderators/managers alike. (Special thanks to Mr. Nuts, my Head of Marketing, for his special appearance in this animated GIF. We are a dynamite duo, he gives me so much energy!)
In 2021, I bundled all my articles into a step-by-step self-learning course to make it easier to follow the structure. Still, many people seek my personal support in some way. Also, I had to add some ads to cover the costs of hosting this site.
That year, the contact form on this site got so many messages that I had to remove it. My LinkedIn profile got completely flooded with requests for help and support in building a good freelance business, reviewing Upwork and Fiverr profiles, improving proposal-writing techniques, etc. With 10,000 freelancer followers and an insane amount of messages every day, I realized that direct messaging like that didn’t scale up.
As I also learned some SEO, this site started to get visitors by the thousands every day.
In 2022, Upwork launched a new blog series with my 2-part story as their first content which also lead to an increase of requests for my support. CoachLancer.com went completely coconuts at this point!
In 2022, I also started doing some live online events and giving presentations on topics that many freelancers find interesting and educational. And of course, I’ve been “powered by coconuts” even during some of the events, e.g. this Upwork Expert Talent Talk titled ‘Charging 3-Digit Figures Per Hour And Increasing Your Value (Without Breaking A Sweat)‘. (You can see the recording of the full event if you click on the ‘Watch Recording’ button.)
Besides the issue of the volume, a more significant problem I faced was this: A big portion of those seeking my help are people who are “thinking about freelancing,” i.e. attempting to secure their starting position and making it as good as possible before taking the big leap – and never actually taking it!
This is where I witnessed my effort go completely wasted when the business impact could not be verified because of the lack of commitment of many of the individuals. The amount of time spent on helping forever-optimists, wishful thinkers, and dreamers, of course, was off from the time I could spend helping those truly worth my time. Probably you!
Most people starting a freelance business are “business idiots” in the sense that spending money to build a business is not an option. I know because, at first, I was one! These people embrace help from others that take their freelance business ideas from zero to actual business which benefits them financially, without giving anything in return.
I soon came to realize that those “business idiots” are seen by others as having dubious business ethics regardless of what freelance business plan they might have! If you make money because of someone’s help, it is fair (and a de facto standard in the world of business) to share the profits.
CoachLancer Hotline: How do I start my own freelance business?
When you are trying to figure out how to start freelancing with no experience, think business. Money goes out, then it comes in – in larger quantities! It is hard to grasp at first… it took a while for me to fully comprehend it!
I always wished I had had the brains to get a business mentor when I started. I would have gotten to the good money much faster… something I later calculated to have brought me tens of thousands of dollars when I compared the income from my first year to those years when I could call my service a high-value business.
Therefore, I started CoachLancer Hotline to ensure that only those who really need and can use my personal help in building their freelance business will actually get it. I have to skip trying to help all others as it is an impossibility because of the limited lifetime of man.
The price for subscribing CoachLancer Hotline is nominal and not-for-profit in nature (feel free to compare the rates to my rates on Upwork, for example). The price level is set to the level any business owner in the world can afford. (And those who don’t… well, they won’t be in business for long anyway as they are probably destined to be “business idiots” for life.)
The communication methods were chosen so that I can manage the volume of questions and requests better than on LinkedIn.
All the articles on this site, my newsletter, and my weekly freelancing tips on LinkedIn are and will always be 100% free.
Can you freelance as a beginner? What to expect
The support I’ve given so far is detailed here: One Year of CoachLancer – Here Are Top 5 Freelancing Problems I Helped to Solve.
What I do is help and guide you. That means I don’t do the work for you! I give you objective feedback on your performance. Individual guidance for building your freelance business. I help you understand the basics, I help you to scale up. I may give you homework to go through specific articles that help understand the problem you are facing. I help you find the way that works for you best. There are many ways I can help you become a better freelancer!
All support I give to you is fully confidential.
How to get started
Proceed to the contact page to get started with CoachLancer Hotline.
What is “hot” about CoachLancer Hotline?
Your future freelance business!