How to Not Get Stressed with Managing Lots of Projects
Lesson 28 from: Fiverr Pro BootcampScott Lancaster
How to Not Get Stressed with Managing Lots of Projects
Lesson 28 from: Fiverr Pro BootcampScott Lancaster
Lesson Info
28. How to Not Get Stressed with Managing Lots of Projects
Lessons
Fiverr Pro Bootcamp
1Introduction to the Program
06:52 2Fiverr Seller Levels
11:17 3Pros & Cons of Fiverr
09:41 4Follow These Rules or Get Banned on Fiverr
07:02 5How to Attract High-Quality Clients
14:49 6How to Spot Nightmare Clients
13:31 7Keeping Your Response Time Low
03:42Using Promoted Gigs on Fiverr
05:42 9Overview of the Fiverr Dashboard
08:51 10Taking a Break from Fiverr
03:46 11Seller Plus Program - Is It Worth It?
02:04 12Fiverr Analytics
03:39 13Getting Your First Fiverr Sale
04:23 14The Perfect Profile Picture
03:04 15Service Provider vs. Helpful Doctor
05:46 16Profile Description
02:43 17Sharing Skills on Your Profile
02:01 18Linking to Other Accounts
02:33 19Showcasing Your Education
02:56 20Niching Down as a Freelancer
01:55 21Strategically Deciding Which Services You Will Offer
04:06 22How Long Do You Have to Wait to Apply for Fiverr Pro
02:25 23Preparing to Apply for Fiverr Pro
05:35 24The Fiverr Pro Application Process
04:54 25What Happens Once You're Accepted onto Fiverr Pro
02:12 26Dealing with Anxiety as a Freelancer
06:34 27Handling Imposter Syndrome as a Freelancer
04:36 28How to Not Get Stressed with Managing Lots of Projects
05:19 29Creating the Perfect Gig Title
01:57 30Writing the Perfect Gig Description
02:48 31Creating the Perfect Gig Video
02:25 32Creating the Perfect Gig Thumbnail
02:01 33Pricing Your Packages with Anchor Pricing
04:27 34Finding the Perfect Gig Tags
01:55 35Showcasing Your Work as Part of Your Portfolio
01:51 36Custom Gigs
04:41 37Milestone Gigs
02:47 38Setting Up Requirements Properly
03:56 39Manage Clients Like a Fiverr Pro
03:46 40How to Have a Successful Sales Call
08:32 41Setting Up Quick Responses
05:30 42Linking Up Calendly with Your Fiverr Profile
04:54 43Using Positive Reviews to Get More High-Quality Clients
04:54 44How to Tackle Negative Reviews and Turn Them into Positive Ones
13:55 45How to Encourage Clients to Write Long Positive Reviews About You on Fiverr
07:30 46Balancing Quality with Quantity
03:43 47How to Sell Services on Fiverr at a Premium
05:24 48What to Do When a Client Doesn't Reply
06:31 49What to Do When a Client Wants to Cancel the Order
08:18 50The Snowballing Method - Keeping Orders in Queue
04:38 51How to Get Favorites on Fiverr
01:28 52Upselling, Cross-Selling and Building Long-Term Client Relationships
04:42 53Brand & Portfolio Building
04:00 54Creating a Professional Email Template
01:23 55Project Management Made Easy with Notion
07:30 56How to Stay Focused While Working Remotely
06:51 57How to Travel While Freelancing
05:42 58Tracking & Growing Your Net Worth
02:04 59My Personal Journey Becoming a Freelancer
11:46 60When to Go Full-Time as a Freelancer
06:25 61Investment Strategies for Each Stage of Your Freelance Journey
04:50 62The Legal Side (NDAs, Contracts and Licenses)
02:59 63Final Thoughts
02:01Introduction to the Program
Lesson Info
How to Not Get Stressed with Managing Lots of Projects
OK. So how do you manage lots of clients without getting stressed? Well, this is an interesting topic because I think that no matter how you manage your clientele, it can always be a little bit stressful, but it doesn't have to be super stressful and I'll explain what I mean. So as I've mentioned in previous lessons before, the goal is to work with the least amount of clients possible and to get paid as much as possible. Ok. Not because you're greedy and not because you want to be overpriced, but basically because you want to be able to provide the best quality work and you want to also have a good level of work life balance. And in order to do that, you need to first and foremost work with a lot of clients. So you can really fine tune your managerial skills to eventually be able to really deliver that quality afterwards. Once you're a little bit more experienced, well, before we dive into how not to get stressed, we're managing lots of different clients and how to manage that whole pr...
ocess. Let's talk about why we get stressed in the first place when managing a couple of clients or having a lot on our plate. Now, our brains are ultimately a little bit like a computer. Right. If you ask a computer to do lots of things at the same time, it's going to get very heated very fast and you've got neurons firing everywhere and it's just going to get very messy very quickly. Now, in order to fix that, we need to focus on prioritization. So, what do I mean by that? Now, the only reason that you're getting stressed is because you're trying to do too many things at once. So the only way to fix that is to prioritize the things that you're trying to do from the most important to the least important. There are certain strategies that can help you schedule your day and manage your day in an effective and efficient way, which we'll run through a little bit later on. In the course, when we get to that stage, basically, you're not actually stressed because you have too many clients, you're stressed because you do not have any prioritization and you do not have things organized. Those two things are very, very different. Now, another little tip to not being stressed when managing lots of clients is to stagger your deliverables. So for example, if you were working on five logo development projects at once, I would deliver each of those projects on a different day. So that the feedback that you get from the client is going to be staggered and it's not going to all come at once because the last thing that you want is to get five E mails in your inbox all on the same day, on the same morning and just basically blowing up your entire day because every single one of them needs revisions. What is far more achievable and far more manageable is if you stagger out your deliveries to one day, one day, one day, one day, one day and then what you're going to do is you're going to delay the response that you're going to get from the client to make it more manageable when you need to do revisions afterwards. Now, I've mentioned this before, but another way to really decrease the amount of stress that you have when you are managing lots of different clients is to keep clients up to date. One of the things which really annoys me when I work with different freelancers is when they don't update me and the delivery date is long gone and they still haven't told me how things are going. I am extremely impatient when it comes to people not telling me what's going on because obviously I have other clients to deal with. So I don't want to be thinking about the thing that they're responsible for if that makes sense. So what you should be doing is keeping your plan up to date and if you're going to be a little bit late and tell them why and say, ok, is it ok if I take an extra day just to make sure everything's perfect for you and they're going to be fine unless they have a really tight deadline, which is very unlikely most of the time, they're happy to give you an extra to 48 hours to make sure everything is right. As long as you're obviously focusing on delivering quality to them. But one thing which is a big no, no is just ignoring them and just basically saying, listen, you know, like I'm not going to update you in regards to anything, I'll just deliver it whenever it's ready. That is not the best way to do things because, you know, as a client, I don't want to be taken for granted and I also do not want to have things delayed without me understanding why it's been delayed. And that actually takes me on to my last point and last little tip when it comes to significantly decreasing stress, when it comes to managing lots of different projects or clients and to give yourself a little bit of wiggle room. So what I usually do is I add maybe 2 to 3 days on the delivery date just to give myself enough time. I'm just in case something happens, maybe I need to go to hospital for a day and something happens or an emergency occurs. Maybe I have an opportunity with another project where I need to jump on a call and it takes up most of my day. So I don't have time to finish the project. Having 2 to 3 days wiggle room on every single project that you're working on is actually really useful because this gives you the ease of pressure that is going to allow you to do your best work. But it's also going to allow you to not get stressed and not have lots of projects piling up on top of you very little flexibility. So keep all of those in mind as you're working through learning how to manage clients, we're going to be going into how to manage clients more effectively later on in the course. But I just want to share those with you because these are going to be super useful to you on your freelance journey. I will see you in the next lesson.