007: Leaving your 9-5 job to go full-time freelance w/ Eléna Potter + Kate Busby

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:
Run Studio Run by Eli Altman  Creative Strategy and the
Business of Design  Breaking the Time Barrier




Software Recommendations:
Slack Zeplin Harvest TeuxDeux by Tina Roth-Eisenberg




People to Follow:
https://clientsfromhell.net (blog and podcast)
http://www.ghostlyferns.com (IG )




Guest Info:


Kate Busby
Eléna Potter
Website - Busby-Potter
Instagram - @BUSBYPOTTER