Boom shake the room fire nation J L D here and welcome to entrepreneurs on fire brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network with great shows like the salesman podcast.

Today we'll be focusing on how to break into freelance web design and build reliable monthly recurring revenue to draw these value bombs.

I brought John Rooton on the mic John teaches ambitious entrepreneurs how to break into web design escape their nine to five achieved financial independence and gained the freedom to work whenever and wherever they want.

And fire nation today will be talking about why now is the best time to start a freelance web design business will talk about how to get going in a crowded space and the design degree that you may or may not need and of course how to make money as a web designer and so much more when we get back from thinking our sponsors.

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John say what's up to fire nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with first thanks John for having me on fire nation what is up my answer to your question is the idea that you have to be constantly to Xing or three Xing or 10 Xing your business in order to be looked at as quote unquote successful I feel like everyone is in a contest on how many Xing is going to be successful.

I'm just on how many X is or how many figures we can promise you learn how to five extra business or 10 extra business or I see some build a six figure web design business or seven figure eight figure.

And I actually started my business with the goal of freedom in mind and so that's what we're all about break into web actually read this analogy last week that I am completely in line with somebody said running a business is a lot like surfing and the process takes patience and practice as you get better you start to figure out which waves to attend writing.

Which one's to ignore and you also learn your sweet spot not everyone is cut out to ride the 20 foot waves only a few can ride those are getting crushed.

And this is the key for me you realize you can find enjoyment in writing small the medium waves your whole life.

Just serving when you want to in the style you want to and that's that's our goal at break into web helping those transition from maybe a job that they don't quite like or career into a web design career where they can work when they want with who they want and from where

they want. I love this because fire nation one thing that I've been sharing pretty openly for a long time now with my monthly income reports is that's hey we've been at about the same multi you know two to three million dollar gross revenue per year now for about

years in a row and guess what I have not been building my business intentionally because I am not willing to work two times three times four times harder to 10 X my revenue I'm just not willing to do that because I have found

what enough is for the lifestyle that I want so I love this message that John is sharing I hope you fire nation find what your enough is as well when you get there I hope you identify it and you know it and again we're talking all about how you

find is she can break into freelance web design to build reliable monthly recurring revenue so John share with us why now today is the best time to start a freelance web design is absolutely I mean now more than ever every business entrepreneur

everyone that wants to go into business needs a website I mean that's one big thing that covid covid showed everyone just how important their online presence is and one of the secrets is folks are not just looking for a website they

also need that web expert with great service and communication on their side to be the go between between you know the tech companies or the hosting company keep their website up and running

and crazy so my co-teacher in the co-founder of the course Kelly her and I for both of us 2020 was actually one of our best years ever despite the pandemic and 2021 is not slowing down and other agency owners that I talk to other freelancers this the story is the same

and it's just a great time to hop in for example we have one student who two years ago was working in H. R. for a metal company in Nashville she had a one hour commute each way to her job even though in the weekends it took like 15 minutes to get to her job

and so really she was working for 10 hour days like 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. with those commutes included and she had a seven level underground parking garage that she would park in

meanwhile her husband was a home music producer in Nashville booking sessions when he wanted to going on tour sometimes with me we plan to band together and before taking our course you would call herself the least tech savvy person around

and in a year's time she took our course built her design business to a point where she can leave her full time job and now she's completely booked with jobs in the pipeline and it's only going to increase as companies move more towards online

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