Joining me on today’s episode of Scaling Freelance is Eléna Potter and Kate Busby. Eléna is a freelance designer and illustrator in Chicago and Kate is a freelance web developer who is remote in Lisbon right now. They came together to form the boutique web design studio, fittingly called Busby-Potter. And by teaming up, they offer start to finish websites with Eléna handling the design and Kate handling development.

Eléna, Kate and I discuss:

• How they quit their 9-5 to become full-time freelancers
• How to get clients as a new freelancer
• Hourly vs Value-based pricing (and why this can make you $$$$)
• What it’s like being a nomadic freelancer
• Why they decided to partner up instead of staying solo-freelancers.

Book Recommendations:

1. Run Studio Run by Eli Altman 
2. Creative Strategy and the Business of Design 
3. Breaking the Time Barrier

Software Recommendations:

1. Slack
2. Zeplin
3. Harvest
4. TeuxDeux by Tina Roth-Eisenberg

People to Follow:

1. https://clientsfromhell.net (blog and podcast)
2. http://www.ghostlyferns.com (IG )

Guest Info:

Kate Busby