Mindset & Strategy Articles

Going to the Olympics

by Mat | July 24, 2024 | A Day In The Life, Customer Relationship, Lifestyle & Impact, Mindset & Strategy | 0 Comments

I’ve come to master the art of managing client expectations. If you don’t promise the moon to your client, but you deliver it to them anyway, you look like a rock star.

Ignite Your Passion and Join the Accelerator: Enrollment Now Open for IGNITE Accelerator

by Mat | April 3, 2023 | Branding & Marketing, Design Business 101, Finding Clients, Lifestyle & Impact, Mindset & Strategy, My Skills and Talents, Passive & Recurring Revenue, Pricing & Services, Side Hustle to Full Time, Systems & Processes | 0 Comments

Are you feeling unfulfilled in your current job? Do you have an unparalleled desire to pursue a freelance business that ignites your passion? Look no further; the IGNITE Accelerator program, a program designed by Freelance CEO founder, Mat Casner, to help guide web,...

Coaching Week is coming April 3rd-7th, 2023

by Mat | March 19, 2023 | Customer Relationship, Design Business 101, Finding Clients, Mindset & Strategy, Pricing & Services | 0 Comments

Ever since I hosted the Purpose To Profit Design Business Summit last August, I’ve been itching to offer another training opportunity for brand, web and graphic designers. Well, that opportunity is going to happen the first full week in April (3rd through the...

5 Ways to Make More Time for YOU in Your Design Business

by Mat | August 9, 2022 | Mindset & Strategy, My Skills and Talents | 0 Comments

5 Ways to Make More Time for YOU in Your Design Business

5 Lessons Learned from My First Freelance Project

by Mat | July 6, 2021 | Design Business 101, Lifestyle & Impact, Mindset & Strategy | 2 Comments

A journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step. When I got my first freelance project, there was no way I could have foreseen that I was beginning a career in freelance design. But that first project gave me a glimpse of the path I was about to embark...

Ignite Your Passion and Join the Accelerator: Enrollment Now Open for IGNITE Accelerator

Apr 3, 2023 | Branding & Marketing, Design Business 101, Finding Clients, Lifestyle & Impact, Mindset & Strategy, My Skills and Talents, Passive & Recurring Revenue, Pricing & Services, Side Hustle to Full Time, Systems & Processes

Are you feeling unfulfilled in your current job? Do you have an...

Coaching Week is coming April 3rd-7th, 2023

Mar 19, 2023 | Customer Relationship, Design Business 101, Finding Clients, Mindset & Strategy, Pricing & Services

Ever since I hosted the Purpose To Profit Design Business Summit last...

5 Ways to Make More Time for YOU in Your Design Business

Aug 9, 2022 | Mindset & Strategy, My Skills and Talents

5 Ways to Make More Time for YOU in Your Design Business

Seeds won’t grow in the bag

Apr 7, 2025 | A Day In The Life

It rained hard last week. One of those classic Kansas spring storms. I stepped out on the porch to watch it, and my eyes landed on the bare patches in my yard where the grass wasn’t growing. Then I remembered—I had a half-used bag of grass seed sitting in the...