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Class 06Working for yourself

Your first paying client

For a skill you already have. No website, no personal brand, no logo, no hundred cold messages — the first client comes from a narrower place than any of that.

What you can do afterwards

Send forty specific messages in eight days and turn a skill you already have into somebody paying you for it.

Cover of Your first paying client

This class on its own

$19

6 pages · about 25 minutes · PDF

Or take the whole library for $149 a year — this class, every other one, and every class added while you are a member.

Digital download, delivered immediately by email. Non-refundable once the link is issued — the full contents are listed below so you can decide before paying.

Everything inside

What is actually in it

  1. 01Everything you have been told to do first, and why none of it produces a client
  2. 02Naming the thing narrowly enough that somebody can ask for it
  3. 03The list of forty, and why your first client is not a stranger
  4. 04The message, line by line, and why each part is there
  5. 05What to charge when you have no idea — two rules that settle it today
  6. 06Saying the number and then stopping talking
  7. 07The one narrow case where free work is a reasonable trade
  8. 08Doing the job so it produces the second client
  9. 09Getting paid without being awkward about it

Included free, inside the class

The message shape that gets replies — and why it asks for a name rather than a job.

Every class ends with one

The one page to keep

A final page built to be printed on its own and pinned up — the checklist, the numbers, the exact words, and where to verify each of them yourself. It repeats rather than references, because a card that says “see page four” is a card nobody keeps.

What this class will not do

  • Tell you what you will earn. Nobody honestly can.
  • Motivate you. It is a set of instructions, not a speech.
  • Pad itself. It is 6 pages because that is what the subject needs — the last one is yours to keep.

Rates and requirements quoted inside are set by the companies involved and can change without notice. When they do, the class is corrected — and if you hold the library, you get the corrected version at no cost.