About the event
What You'll Learn
If the idea of selling your services, negotiating with clients, and figuring out your pricing fills you with dread, this talk is for you. Talking about money and pitching your services shouldn't be something you fear. In fact, the process of selling can be am extremely creative and satisfying experience - really!
At the end of this presentation, you will be able to calculate how much to charge for your services, decide how to sell your skills, negotiate with confidence and generally make the process of selling feel seamless.
What you do has a value and it's time you got paid for it!
Your Instructor
Matt Dowling is an entrepreneur, campaigner, speaker, activist, writer and consultant who has been featured on radio, podcasts, in print and online publications including The Guardian, The Times, The Financial Times, The Independent, The Huffington Post, BBC, RTE and LBC, discussing a range of entrepreneurial topics, fighting for the rights of the self-employed and addressing issues faced by freelancers.
Prior to founding the Freelancer Club, Matt was an international photographer for over 10 years and co-founded Top International Magazine, an editorial fashion publication distributed in LA and New York. Matt also founded Shooting Beauty, Green Leaf Digital, Freelance Academy, and & Then Some.
Matt represents freelancers at exclusive round-table discussions with influential change-makers from Harvard, UAL, and NASA and continues to work with thought leaders and politicians to change legislation in Parliament.
Regarded as one of the leading voices in the freelance sector, Matt is regularly quoted on freelance and entrepreneurial topics.
About Freelancer Club
In 2008, Matt Dowling spent his last £300 on a lawyer in an effort to recover £11,000 that was owed to him from an unpaid invoice. The final attempt failed. Matt, a freelance photographer, was broke, frustrated and out of ideas. The story made the national press and freelancers reached out with similar tales. Realising the need for support and determined to put a stop to the exploitation of creative freelancers, the seeds of Freelancer Club were sown. Today, Freelancer Club is one of the leading creative communities online with over 65,000 freelancer members supporting one another. We empower freelancers through an ecosystem, providing them with training, resources, mentorship, and a vibrant community to thrive in.