In this episode we discuss:

• How Tom got started freelancing
• Landing the first client
• Do you need to be able to "sell yourself" to make it as a freelancer?
• Getting out of the "feast/famine" cycle that traps many freelancers
• What are the biggest mistakes that most people make when first starting out as freelancers?
• What would Tom do if he was starting over again today?
• Should you use marketplaces/platforms like UpWork to sell your services as a freelancer?
• Is it important to choose a niche? 
• Where Tom gets virtually all of his new leads from
• The advantages of "working in public"
• Finding success on Twitter
• Tom's viral Twitter thread on pricing freelance projects ( https://twitter.com/tom_hirst/status/1277933730078785537
• How to create additional sources of income as a freelancer (besides client work)
• Translating freelance expertise into creating and selling content online
• Tom's new agency, Run the Show (https://twitter.com/rtsagency) that specializes in Headless Wordpress
• What is "Headless Wordpress" and why would someone use it?

You can find links to all of the resources we discussed and more on Tom's website here: https://www.tomhirst.com/links/