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Freelance Standout: A Personal Branding Guide For Solo Freelancers

$9.99
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Freelance Standout cover, a glowing magenta chess knight on black, from Buscemi IT Solutions

Freelance Standout: A Personal Branding Guide For Solo Freelancers

$9.99

Most freelancers are not losing work to better freelancers. They are losing it to being indistinguishable, because they sell every service to everyone and describe it in the same words as the next profile. The portfolio goes stale, the network goes cold, and the only lever left is price. By then the rate conversation is over before it starts.

This is a fifty page book that takes you from picking a niche to writing the one sentence that sells it. A skills audit, a competitor teardown, a fill-in positioning formula, and the metrics that show whether any of it is working. It is written for a freelancer building their own name, not for an agency with a marketing team.

What You Get
  • A skills audit that rates every hard and soft skill from one to ten before you pick anything
  • The three column table crossing your skills, your passions, and current market demand to find the overlap
  • A competitor comparison chart with three worked rival profiles covering USP, strengths, weaknesses, and pricing
  • The fill-in USP formula: I help target market to benefit by unique approach, with two finished examples
  • Five signs your USP has expired, from attracting the wrong clients to no longer separating you from newcomers
  • A six row metrics table pairing each brand element with what to track, from bounce rate to referral count

You can draft your positioning statement in an afternoon and have it live on your profiles the same day. No course to sit through, no login to keep.

Delivered as a PDF download the moment your order is confirmed. Opens on any device and is yours to keep.
What you get

The same six things on every engagement

Whatever service you are looking at, this part does not change. It is how we run the work rather than what the work is.

A baseline before we startWe record where you stand today, so there is something honest to measure the work against later.
Accounts in your nameAnalytics, Search Console, ad accounts. Created under your business with you as owner, not ours.
A scope in writingWhat is included, what is not, and the number. Agreed before any work begins.
Monthly reporting in plain numbersThe metrics we agreed on, stated so you can read them without calling for a translation.
One person, start to finishWhoever scopes the work does the work. No handoff to someone you have never spoken to.
Bad news the month it happensIf something is not working you hear it straight away, with what we are changing and why.
How it runs

Four steps, and you can stop at any of them

Nothing is charged until step three, and nothing is locked in after it.

01

Free audit

We look at your site and your market and tell you what we would do first. You keep the findings whether or not you hire us.

02

Fifteen minute call

We walk through what we found, answer questions, and say plainly whether this service is the right one for you right now.

03

Scope and number

You get the work and the price in writing before you commit to anything. No proposal three weeks later.

04

Work and report

The work runs against the plan and you get monthly reporting on the metrics agreed up front.

What sets the price

Why there is no number on this page

A fixed package overcharges the simple jobs and underdelivers on the hard ones. Three things decide what this actually costs.

01

Your market

Competing in a small town and competing across a metro are different jobs. Pretending otherwise helps nobody.

02

Where you are starting

Some sites need fixing. Some need replacing. We will tell you which one you have before you commit to either.

03

How much ground to cover

Five pages and ten keywords is a different scope to forty pages and two hundred. The number follows the work.

Ad spend is separate. Budget goes straight to Google or Meta on your own card, and our fee is stated on its own line.

Before you ask

Questions we get on the first call

If yours is not here, the audit call is free and there is no pitch attached to it.

How do I get a price?

Book the free audit. We look at your site and your market first, then quote the work in writing. Nothing is charged for that part, and there is no obligation after it.

Do I have to take more than one service?

No. Take one or take all thirteen. On the audit call we will tell you which one is costing you the most right now, and which ones you do not need yet.

Who owns the accounts?

You do. Everything is set up under your business with you as owner. If we part ways you keep the accounts, the data, and the history that goes with them.

Am I locked into a contract?

Monthly services can be cancelled with thirty days written notice. One-time projects are billed on the schedule in your quote. Nothing auto-renews for a year.

How long before I see something?

It depends on the service and your market. Paid channels move within weeks. Search work is slower to build and cheaper to keep. We will tell you which one you are buying before you buy it.

Can you guarantee a ranking or a result?

No, and be careful with anyone who does. Nobody controls Google's results. We will tell you what we expect to move, why, and then show you whether it did.

Start with the audit, not the invoice

Fifteen minutes, no pitch deck, and you keep what we find either way.

Your accounts stay yours Cancel with thirty days notice Quoted in writing first Illinois and Virginia