DreamClients Podcast - Find Better Clients: Recent Episodes
Aaron Cruz
Welcome to the dreamclients podcast, where we give freelance software developers the tools to find better clients.
I'm your host, Aaron Cruz, a freelance Elixir developer with over a decade of freelancing experience.
In this episode I chat with Markus Kirchmaier, a recruiter / seller at https://lean-hive.at about:
- Recruiting from the recruiter's side
- building relationships
- what recruiters look for
- how their business works
If you want to see more about the podcast or sign up for the freelancing weekly newsletter, visit the site at podcast.dreamclients.io.
To find Markus and see what he's up to, you can visit Lean Hive at https://lean-hive.at.
Welcome to the dreamclients podcast, where we give freelance software developers the tools to find better clients.
I'm your host, Aaron Cruz, a freelance Elixir developer with over a decade of freelancing experience.
In this episode I talk with Christoph Rumpel about:
- Creating courses and videos
- his setup
- workflow
- how his content machine works
If you want to see more about the podcast or sign up for the freelancing weekly newsletter, visit the site at https://podcast.dreamclients.io.
About ChristophChristoph Rumpel is a web developer from Vienna. For the last eight years, he has been working as a backend developer using PHP and Laravel daily.
Since 2018 Christoph is operating on his own as a freelancer, consultant, and teacher. Next, to his first ebook about building chatbots in PHP, he is also the author of the video courses Laravel Core Adventures, Mastering PhpStorm, and PEST Driven Laravel.
Christoph loves coding, teaching, surfing, bouldering, and his Nintendo Switch.
Where to find ChristophTwitter
Welcome to the dreamclients podcast, where we give freelance software developers the tools to find better clients.
I'm your host, Aaron Cruz, a freelance Elixir developer with over a decade of freelancing experience.
In this episode I talk with Alessandro Mulloni about:
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specializing in a technology
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the importance of your network
If you want to see more about the podcast or sign up for the freelancing weekly newsletter, visit the site at podcast.dreamclients.io.
For more about Alessandro, you can visit his website at https://likemagic.dev
In this episode I chat with Lars Wikman about the mixed freelancing, agency, recruiting business he is running.
We talk about how he runs a small agency with a very small number of trusted subcontractors.
We also get into how he does bespoke recruiting for Elixir developers and our views on recruiting in general.
If you want to see more about the podcast or sign up for the freelancing weekly newsletter, visit the site at https://podcast.dreamclients.io.
Here's where you can find more Lars:
- @lawik@fosstodon.org
- His awesome blog https://underjord.io/
- Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@underjord
In this episode I interviewed Ramón Huidobro about his experience giving remote conference talks and about how he engages with potential customers by streaming on Twitch.
This was a really fun episode to do as we've been friends for a long time and his energy is contageous.
You can find Ramón all over the internet and you can find all his social links on his website at https://ramonh.dev/
If you know someone who would be great to interview or you want to get ahold of me for some other reason, you can send me a message on Twitter @mraaroncruz or an email to aaron@aaroncruz.com
Sorry for my terrible audio. I'll make sure I record a local copy in the future. The web tool I use must have picked the wrong microphone. Ramón sounds really great though :D
Enjoy the show!
This is an interview with Christoph Ott, CEO of Lean Coders in Vienna.
We talked about:
- Starting as a freelancer
- Building a consultancy with a group of freelancers
- Sales techniques when you need many clients
- Delegating to focus on what you're good at
AND!
- Getting pumped up at a giant motivational conference
Philip's website where there are a ton of great learning resources, nicely organized:
https://philipmorganconsulting.com/start-here/
Some of the topics we hit are:
- The Specialization how's and what's
- Philip's newsletter
- Coffee
- And some Q&A
There is also a video recording of this podcast and after I push it to YouTube I'll add a link to the show notes. I'll also mention it on the list so if you want to find out immediately, sign up to the list at podcast.dreamclients.io.
One last update, I'm working on a marketing tool to help freelance software developers stay healthy with their marketing. I want to release an MVP soon and would love testers. You can again, sign up on the mailing list, or send me an email at aaron@dreamclients.io if you're interested in beta testing it.
Welcome to the Dreamclients podcast where we help freelance software developers find more clients.
This is an interview with Stefan Wöhrer about how his agency finds freelancing clients.
This episode was recorded over a year ago when we were still deep in the pandemic so some references may sound strange.
Some of the topics we hit are:
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Leveraging your Github account
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Automating customer acquisition
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Using StarCraft as an example to exponentially grow your business
One side note, I just talked with Stefan the other day and he reminded me that he had had a brain fart and mixed up revenue and profit. He knows the difference, I promise :D
There are a lot more episodes coming so watch your podcast feed or sign up at dreamclients.io to get notified when episodes are released.
Welcome to the DreamClients Podcast where we give freelance software developers the tools to find better clients.
This is a second conversation with Luke van Enkhuizen. In this one, we talk about finding leads on Linkedin.
This episode was recorded over a year ago when we were still deep in the pandemic so some references may sound strange.
Some of the topics we hit are:
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Starting conversations on LinkedIn
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How to stay in contact
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How to pick your specialty
There are a lot more episodes coming so watch your podcast feed or sign up at podcast.dreamclients.io to get notified when episodes are released.
Welcome to the DreamClients Podcast where we give freelance software developers the tools to find better clients.
In this episode I interview with Oliver Schoendorfer about Building an Audience.
You can check out his YouTube channel, Pimp My Type, https://www.youtube.com/c/PimpmyType
This episode was recorded over a year ago when we were still deep in the pandemic so some references may sound strange.
I recorded it during an online Freelancing in Vienna meetup.
Some of the topics we hit are:
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Building a YouTube channel
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Content creation
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How people discover his videos
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The struggles of building an audience
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Fonts
There are a lot more episodes coming so watch your podcast feed or sign up at podcast.dreamclients.io to get notified when episodes are released.
We're back with a new episode!
This is an interview with Björn Ganslandt about work life balance.
This episode was recorded over a year ago when we were still deep in the pandemic so some references may sound strange.
Some of the topics we hit are:
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Follow up
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Red flags with clients
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How to work the right amount of hours
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Blogging in your own language?
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Raising your rates
There are a lot more episodes coming so watch your podcast feed or sign up at https://dreamclients.io to get notified when episodes are released.
Luke PART 1 Notes
Luke gives his definition of value pricing and goes deeper into value pricing conversation.
Advice for some projects that seems on the face or some kind of positioning but in the end it's so wide and you have no idea where to start.
Dream clients and how to get them.
Talking about the fear of fixed pricing on a project vs hourly value pricing.
Luke goes into specialization conversation.
Welcome to the dreamclients podcast, where we help freelance software developers find more, higher quality clients.
In this interview episode, I talk with Balint Erdi, a freelance Ember.js developer and author of Rock and Roll with Emberjs.
Topics
- Authoring tech e-books
- Passive income
- Conferences
- Mastermind groups
- Follow up
- and much more
Picks
- Book "Authority" - https://nathanbarry.com/authority/
- Double your freelancing - https://doubleyourfreelancing.com/
- Book "On Writing Well" - https://amzn.to/3AVcUpD
- Readwise - https://readwise.io/
- Book "Value based fees" - https://amzn.to/3wCTD8Y
- Jonathan Stark - https://jonathanstark.com/
- Brennan Dunn email list - https://doubleyourfreelancing.com/newsletter/
On this episode I interview Alexander Rössler of machinekoder.com where he blogs about his specialty of simpler Machine UI development.
Alexander has been getting great traction from blogging, conference speaking and building his personal brand.
We talk about:
- Reusing and white labeling source code
- Follow up
- How he gets more clients through Blogging
- Referring work to your network
- Advice for new freelancers
- Starting out at an agency for market research
- How to leverage your time, speaking at conferences
- Feast and famine cycle
You can find Manuel at CreativePragmatics
As always, you can sign up to our list to get updates on new episodes, freelance hacks and other actionable information at https://podcast.dreamclients.io.
Picks* Figma - web based design/mockup/click dummy tool * Notion - Notes, Kanban, lists, etc. * Nathan Barry's blog * Brennan Dunn's newsletter
The first installment of short episodes where I talk about a freelancing topic that I think about quite a lot.
Dražen Lučanin runs a dev team at https://punkrock.dev. He started as a freelancer and has some great advice for where he finds the bulk of his clients.
Picks # * Measure What Matters - A book about OKRs * Thinking Fast and Slow * Marketing for Developers (course and book) * Jupyter Notebook for Data Science - Dražen's course
An Introduction To The DreamClients Podcast # Hi everyone. I wanted to take a minute to introduce this new podcast and give you an idea of what it is about.
The goal of the dream clients podcast is to help freelance software developers of all levels to find better clients. And more of them. It will be more targeted at folks who are new or have been doing it for a couple of years.
My name’s Aaron Cruz and I have been freelancing as a software developer, mostly remotely, in all kinds of stacks and industries for over a decade.
I’ve made all of the mistakes and felt the pain of most of the downsides of freelancing. But I also have learned from them and consistently improved my profit, work life balance and customer base year after year.
I am based in Vienna Austria in central Europe which may be relevant because some of the content will be a little more Central European based, like dealing with taxes, and a lot of the guests will be from the area. But almost all the concepts should translate well to most of the world.
There will be interview episodes intermixed with shorter episodes that will be more focused on a specific topic and straight from my experiences.
If you want to join the list and get updated when new podcasts are released, as well as other tips and hardcore freelancing life hacks, head over to https://podcast.dreamclients.io.
Well, thanks for tuning in and I hope this will be as helpful for you as it will for me.