Go from Freelancer to Business owner

This intro shifts from avoiding entrepreneurship to practical steps for building a real, established business, using a personal case study to show how to act, not just imagine.

Bootstrapping from scratch, the speaker builds a professional Selva consulting with translation and expansion services for SMEs abroad, illustrating how to become a business rather than an entrepreneur.

Learn the essential starting steps for a new business: secure a domain name, hosting, and email, and keep costs low while presenting a professional, established online presence.

Identify a cheap, available domain for your consulting business by using instant domain search to check names like 'df consulting,' then register it with a registrar such as Go Daddy.

Register a dot-com domain and use a free site builder to launch a simple drag-and-drop website with up to five pages.

Set up your email with Go Daddy, forward messages to your personal inbox, and use a catch-all account so multiple contact addresses route to the same inbox.

Learn how to set up a free US phone number with Google Voice. Manage voicemails, transcription, and messages, and compare using Google Voice versus a personal line for international calls.

Secure a domain, launch a website, and set up a business email and phone to show legitimacy. Start lean with a total cost around $15.17, and enjoy cheaper first-year pricing.

Attend events to grow your network without mandatory memberships. Plan monthly calendars to identify worthwhile opportunities, beware questionable entrepreneurship events, and embed yourself in the community to raise your profile.

Use email outreach to attract clients by sending targeted, non-spam messages, avoiding association directories at first, and testing outreach in nearby cities to protect your reputation.

Discover practical sources to find emails and contact information, including Manta dot com and the SBA, country-specific directories, and LinkedIn for searching and messaging potential clients.

Set up a separate marketing email with a distinct domain to improve deliverability and avoid spam filters when sending mass emails.

Create a reusable email template and personalize messages with the recipient's name, balancing formal or friendly tone to sound natural. Schedule outreach on specific days and send emails in batches.

Assess why cold calls are seen as dying in 2019 due to FTC spam trends, and learn how some still gather numbers from websites to reach target clients.

Learn a cold-calling approach that treats rejections as a milestone in a numbers game, aiming for a set number of rejections before taking a break to stay motivated.

Learn how I convert outreach into a paid collaboration by framing problems as export solutions, leveraging government incentives to connect a United States manufacturer with european distributors.

Balance transparency and boundaries with clients, offer partial help to manage expectations, protect your reputation, and navigate government agency steps and the step program.

Practice treating your business as a real enterprise by solving the client's problem, as shown in the case study that emphasizes results over credentials.

Learn practical lead generation using Get prospect and Click mail, build targeted contact lists, export to Excel, import into groups, and automate email sequences with A/B testing options.

Explore a specific job post and see how compatible you are for the job and how compatible the job is for you, using AI for job search insights.

Discover how digital nomad visas let you work remotely from 50 plus countries, with varied fees, monthly income or proof of funds, and flexible one to three year stays.

Explore the instructor's journey from a freelance translator to agency founder. Access the bonus lecture's promotions, including a 50% discount via coupon code and links, and share your feedback.