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...

5 Lessons Learned from My First Freelance Project

Jul 6, 2021 | Design Business 101, Lifestyle & Impact, Mindset & Strategy

A journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step. When I...

Preparing to Launch Your Freelance Business

Jun 30, 2021 | Design Business 101, Lifestyle & Impact, Mindset & Strategy

I'm not going to make any bones about it. Starting a freelance business,...

Getting Fired Taught Me These 3 Valuable Lessons

Jun 23, 2021 | Customer Relationship, Design Business 101, Mindset & Strategy

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...I had just...

The Rearview Mirror

Apr 1, 2025 | A Day In The Life

It’s the first day of April! I hope you take a moment to pause this week and do one thing for me. Look back over the past 3 months (Q1) and take account of your time and investments you made in your business. In my business, I call this “Looking in the...