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Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
Lucas and Luna run the numbers on independent work — consulting, freelancing, self-employment — as a career path that's part hustle, part strategy, and increasingly mainstream. Each episode takes a concrete case: how a former McKinsey partner built a solo advisory firm billing $1,200 an hour, what the IRS's 2023 tax data reveals about the median solo consultant's net income ($68,000, not the Instagram fantasy), or how a software developer in Omaha replaced a $140K salary with three retainer…
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Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-EmploymentHow Freelancers Can Raise Rates by Offering a Scoping Sprint
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a fresh approach to pricing for freelancers and consultants: the scoping sprint. Inspired by a case study of a…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Offering a Satisfaction Guarantee
In this episode of Freelance Careers with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a powerful yet underused pricing strategy: the satisfaction guarantee. They dive into…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Offering a Case Study
In this episode of Freelance Careers, Lucas and Luna explore how publishing a detailed case study can be a powerful lever for raising freelance rates. They…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Offering a Success Fee
In Episode 168 of Freelance Careers with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a pricing strategy that flips the typical consulting model: the success fee. Instead…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Teaching a Workshop
In this episode of Freelance Careers, Lucas and Luna explore a counterintuitive rate-raising strategy: teaching a paid workshop. They break down the story of a…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelancer Priced a Fixed-Fee Project
In episode 166 of Freelance Careers, Lucas and Luna tackle a question every independent consultant eventually faces: how do you price a fixed-fee project…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Charging Per Outcome
On this episode of Freelance Careers with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a counterintuitive pricing strategy: charging per outcome instead of per hour or…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Writer Raised Rates by Charging Per Word
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a fresh angle on raising freelance rates: moving from flat project fees to per-word pricing. They dive into the story…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Offering a Retainer Plus On-Call Hours
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a fresh angle on raising freelance rates: offering a retainer plus on-call hours. They dive into a real case of a…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Offering a Value Guarantee
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dig into a pricing strategy that's rarely talked about: the value guarantee. They explore how a freelance supply-chain…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Offering a Pilot Project
In episode 161 of Freelance Careers with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into a fresh angle: using a paid pilot project to raise freelance rates. They explore a…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Doubling Her Niche
In episode 160, Lucas and Luna explore how doubling down on a niche—not broadening services—can be the key to raising freelance rates. They unpack the story of…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Offering a Maintenance Plan
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a simple but effective pricing strategy for freelancers: adding a monthly maintenance plan. They break down how a web…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Bundling Services
In this episode of Freelance Careers with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a fresh approach to raising freelance rates: bundling services into a single offer…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Quoting a Range
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a counterintuitive pricing strategy: quoting a rate range instead of a fixed number. They dissect a real case where a…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Offering a Pay-What-It's-Worth Pilot
In episode 156, Lucas and Luna explore a counterintuitive pricing move: a freelance operations consultant who offered a pay-what-it's-worth pilot project…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Offering Payment Plans
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a fresh angle on raising freelance rates: offering payment plans. They dig into the story of a solo consultant who…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Offering Performance Bonuses
In this episode of Freelance Careers with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into a clever pricing strategy used by a freelance operations consultant to raise rates…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Publishing a Case Study
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a fresh angle on raising freelance rates: publishing a detailed case study. They look at how one independent marketing…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Charging for a Discovery Workshop
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a fresh pricing strategy for freelancers: charging for the discovery workshop. They unpack the story of a freelance…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
Raising Freelance Rates by Offering a Project Retrospective
In this episode of Freelance Careers, Lucas and Luna dig into a money-making habit most freelancers skip: the project retrospective. After wrapping a gig, one…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Firing a Client
In this special 150th episode, Lucas and Luna explore a counterintuitive rate-raising strategy: firing a client. Through the story of a freelance web developer…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Publishing a Pricing Page
Freelance consultant Marta Ruiz was tired of negotiating her rates one client at a time. So she published a transparent pricing page on her website, listing…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Asking for a Testimonial
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into a counterintuitive pricing tactic: how a freelance marketing consultant raised her rates by asking clients for a…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Offering a Monthly Retainer
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how a freelance marketing consultant shifted from project-based fees to a monthly retainer model, boosting her income…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelancer Raised Rates With Value-Based Pricing
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how a freelance brand strategist named Sarah raised her rates by 40 percent by switching from hourly billing to…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Tiered Pricing Menu Raised a Consultant's Rates
Marketing consultant Sarah was stuck at $3,000 per project until she introduced three pricing tiers: Basic at $2,000, Standard at $5,000, and Premium at…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Digital Marketer Raised Rates by Presenting Client Lifetime Value
Freelance digital marketer Alex Martinez raised his monthly retainer from $2,000 to $3,500 - a 75% increase - without losing a single client. His secret: he…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
Minimum Engagements Raised This Consultant’s Rates 40 Percent
Brand strategy consultant Sarah Martin was stuck charging $200 an hour for one-off projects. Clients loved her work but never saw the long-term impact. So she…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Introducing a Waitlist
In this episode of Freelance Careers with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a counterintuitive rate-raising tactic: scarcity. They break down the story of Sarah…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How Firing a Client Boosted a Freelancer's Income
Most freelancers cling to clients out of fear of losing income. But a brand strategist named Sarah decided to fire her biggest client—worth $5,000 a…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Money-Back Guarantee Raised a Consultant's Rates by 25 Percent
Most freelancers fear giving refunds, but Sarah Chen, a B2B SaaS marketing consultant, used a 30-day money-back guarantee to justify a 25 percent rate…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Adding an Onboarding Fee
In this episode of Freelance Careers with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a specific pricing strategy: the onboarding fee. They break down how Austin-based…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Developing a Proprietary Framework
Sarah Chen, a management consultant in Chicago, was stuck at $150 per hour until she developed the Strategic Alignment Matrix — a proprietary framework that…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
Priority Support Tier Raises Freelance Rates 20 Percent
In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack how a freelance marketing consultant named Sarah increased her rates by 20 percent without losing clients. Sarah added a…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Content Strategist Raised Rates by Specializing in SaaS
Freelance content strategist Maria Chen spent years as a generalist writing for anyone who paid. Then she niched down to B2B SaaS companies and raised her…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Brand Strategist Used a Pricing Ceiling to Raise Rates 30 Percent
In Episode 135, Lucas and Luna explore how a freelance brand strategist, Maya Chen, raised her rates by thirty percent while boosting her win rate from forty…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Creating a Client Referral Bonus
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how a freelance marketing consultant named Jenna raised her rates by 30 percent after implementing a client referral…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Dropping Hourly Billing
Episode 133 of Freelance Careers with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna unpack the story of a freelance management consultant who raised her rates by 65 percent over two…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Designer Raised Rates by Offering a Satisfaction Escalation Clause
Episode 132 of Freelance Careers with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna break down how a freelance UX designer raised her hourly rate from $120 to $185 by adding a…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Writing a Client Handbook
Episode 131 of Freelance Careers with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna break down a specific, repeatable strategy for raising freelance rates without a painful…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How Freelancers Use Before-and-After Data to Raise Rates
Episode 130 of Freelance Careers with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna unpack how a freelance brand strategist named Danielle Torres raised her rates by 30 percent…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Sharing Cost Breakdowns
In this episode of Freelance Careers with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a counterintuitive pricing strategy: showing clients the exact cost breakdown of your…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Bundling Services
In this episode of Freelance Careers with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how a freelance marketing consultant named Priya doubled her income by shifting from…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Offering a Price Match Guarantee
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a counterintuitive pricing strategy for freelancers: the price match guarantee. Lucas shares the story of a freelance…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates with a Client Value Scorecard
Episode 126 of Freelance Careers with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna explore how a freelance brand strategist used a simple client value scorecard to identify her…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Copywriter Raised Rates by Publishing a Pricing Philosophy
Episode 125 of Freelance Careers with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna explore how a freelance B2B copywriter named Jenna doubled her rates not by changing her output…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Web Developer Raised Rates by Adding a Maintenance Retainer
Episode 124 of Freelance Careers with Fexingo explores how a freelance web developer named Priya Sharma raised her rates by 35 percent by introducing a monthly…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Refusing Discounts
In this episode of Freelance Careers with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a counterintuitive rate-raising tactic: refusing to offer discounts. Drawing on the…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Charged 50 Percent More with a Risk Matrix
In episode 122, Lucas and Luna break down how a freelance IT security consultant raised her project fees by 50 percent simply by adding a one-page risk matrix…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How Freelancers Use Retainer Client Case Studies to Raise Rates
Episode 121 of Freelance Careers with Fexingo explores how freelancers can leverage case studies from their best retainer clients to justify higher rates…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Offering a Performance-Based Bonus
In episode 120 of Freelance Careers with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how a freelance marketing consultant named Sarah Chen raised her rates by 30 percent…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Saying No to Scope Creep
In episode 119 of Freelance Careers with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how a freelance marketing consultant in Chicago raised her hourly rate from $120 to…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates 25 Percent with a Case Study Library
Episode 118 of Freelance Careers with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna explore how one freelance marketing consultant built a library of client case studies and used it…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How Freelancers Can Use a Client Risk Assessment to Raise Rates
In episode 117 of Freelance Careers with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how a freelance IT consultant named Sarah used a structured client risk assessment to…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Video Editor Raised Rates 40 Percent by Telling Client Stories
Episode 116 of Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment. Lucas and Luna dive into the story of Sarah Chen, a freelance…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Copywriter Raised Rates by Specializing in One Industry
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of a freelance copywriter who doubled her rates within six months by narrowing her focus from general B2B…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates with a Client Advisory Board
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how a freelance marketing consultant named Priya used a client advisory board to justify a 30% rate increase. Priya…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Building a Client Referral Network
In this episode of Freelance Careers, Lucas and Luna explore a specific, counterintuitive strategy for raising freelance rates — not by improving skills or…
- Freelance Careers with Fexingo: Independent Work, Consulting, and Self-Employment
How a Freelance Consultant Raised Rates by Offering a Risk-Free Guarantee
In episode 112 of Freelance Careers with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into a counterintuitive pricing strategy: offering clients a money-back guarantee. They…