176: Freelance Transformation: From $300 Technician to $20,000 Consultant, with Matt Inglot
The Side Hustle Show
Nick Loper
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2016
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Matt Inglot was following the hustler's path. He built some skills on his spare time, and began selling those skills as a freelancer. The first project he sold was to build a website for $300. Soon, he had a full-time freelance business, and decided to grow into an agency. But before long, Matt found himself working 80 hour weeks and stressed out during down months about covering rent and payroll. While outwardly successful, Matt knew the business was broken.
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| 0:00.0 | Side Hustle Show 176, freelance transformation from $300 technician to $20,000 consultant. |
| 0:07.6 | Welcome to the Side Hustle Show, where aspiring part-time entrepreneurs learn how to turn their side-housled dreams into reality. |
| 0:16.4 | Because your 9-to-5 may make you a living, but your 5-9 makes you alive. |
| 0:21.4 | And now your host, Nick Loper. |
| 0:25.0 | What's up, Nick Loper here? |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Side Hustle show. Great program for you today featuring Matt Ingglot. He's a Canadian entrepreneur who's gone from, in his word, success to failure to success again. He calls the journey his freelance transformation and it's taken him from doing $300 website building projects to |
| 0:44.9 | serving as a consultant on $20,000 plus projects for high value clients. Now several |
| 0:51.1 | people have reached out and requested to hear Matt on the show, so you're going to hear how he decided what service he could offer, how he landed his first clients, and ultimately how he turned his high overhead local agency into a lean mean location independent consulting machine. |
| 1:05.5 | You find out more about Matt's agency at tilted pixel.com. |
| 1:08.8 | They build websites, which I know he'd agree is a gross oversimplification and of what they actually do and he's got a blog |
| 1:15.8 | and podcast to help freelancers over at freelance transformation.com. |
| 1:20.5 | Notes and links for this one are at side hustleation.com slash Matt and of course while you're there you can grab the free PDF highlight reel with all of Matt's top tips from this conversation. |
| 1:30.0 | And before we dive in I want to take a moment to thank today's sponsor, DesignCrowd.com. |
| 1:34.4 | DesignCrowd lets you tap into the creative power of more than half a million global |
| 1:38.0 | designers to create the perfect graphic design for your business. |
| 1:41.5 | I'll be back to tell you a little bit more about DesignCrowd after this conversation with Matt along with my top takeaways from the call. |
| 1:46.4 | In the meantime if you visit design crowd.com slash hustle or use the promo code |
| 1:50.5 | hustle you can get up to $100 off your next design project. |
| 1:54.3 | Ready? Let's do it. |
| 1:57.3 | So in the early days I needed money quite frankly I had I was in university and I had just been laid off from basically like a dream job for a student. |
| 2:08.6 | I was working part-time at a high-tech startup. |
| 2:11.6 | It was amazing and about three months into it the startup kind of ran out of money |
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