Peak Freelance
Writing and Editing
A membership community for freelance writers who want to find clients, scale their business, and make money.
About us
Peak Freelance is a membership community for freelance writers who want to find clients, scale their business, and make money. Get access to pro workshops, templates, and courses to take your freelance business to the next level. Unlock the freelance content and community you’ve been looking for👇
- Website
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https://peakfreelance.com/membership
External link for Peak Freelance
- Industry
- Writing and Editing
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Halifax
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2020
- Specialties
- freelancing, freelance writing, freelance writers, writing, copywriting, and freelance copywriters
Locations
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Primary
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Halifax, GB
Employees at Peak Freelance
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Mina Son
Writer, Translator, Actor, Model
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Brooklin Em Dash Nash 💡
Talk to me about building buyer trust with expert interviews and original data-backed insights. Building the #BeamTeam.
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Elise Dopson
Freelance B2B writer. Specialties: ecommerce, marketing, entrepreneurship, and creators ⚡️ Bylines: Shopify, Business Insider, Zapier, Descript, CXL…
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mike keenan
Principal at Peak | Co-founder of Peak Freelance | Writer
Updates
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How far do you go to keep clients happy? How do you set your own expectations and boundaries? How do you set up the project for success?
Talk to me about building buyer trust with expert interviews and original data-backed insights. Building the #BeamTeam.
Dear freelancer, When a client is unhappy at the tail end of a project, sometimes the lesson is "I could've written this better." But USUALLY the lesson is "I could've communicated expectations and pushed back on the unrealistic timeline better than I did." Freelancers LOVE to say "yeah, I can do that"—same-day substantive edits, a last minute addition, feedback from brand new stakeholders—and then grumble all the way through the Google Doc. (I know; I did it for half a decade.) Sometimes that's necessary (sans the grumbling). Usually it's not. The "fix" to mismatched expectations, missed quality, and overdue deliverables almost never happens in the final days of a given project. It starts in the first days, and should be constantly tinkered with. Adjust accordingly.
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How do YOU work through client edits? 👀
Talk to me about building buyer trust with expert interviews and original data-backed insights. Building the #BeamTeam.
Anonymous Animals have you stresesed? This is how I resolve client edits: 1. Ask for comments and changes in Suggestion mode, gathered from all stakeholders at once. 2. Summarize the structural/developmental feedback in my own comment at the top of the doc. 3. Resolve all minor edits and comments, proofing as I go (you can't just hit "accept" and expect zero typos). 4. Go through the more substantive comments to parse what they're looking for and comment back with clarifying questions. 5. Sit on it for a day or two. 6. This is an important one: come back and resolve the bigger feedback (which I previously summarized for myself) FIRST. It doesn't make sense to tweak language or add transitions if you're going to end up cutting, adding, or rearranging things. 7. Get the new structure in place, then go through the substantive comments one by one, ideally armed with answers to the questions I previously raised. 8. If any changes I made or any comments they made are still unclear, respond back and leave those comments open. 9. Highlight any major changes (new paragraphs, subtitles, lists, quotes) in yellow. 10. Send back to the client, summarizing the changes and the pending feedback. (Sometimes a live call can be helpful, but I don’t make it the default.) 🤝
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Talk to me about building buyer trust with expert interviews and original data-backed insights. Building the #BeamTeam.
Dear freelancer, They say: “Find your niche.” I say: yes, but don’t rush it. I’ve written for sex toy brands and rehab centers, luxury watch brands and seed stage founders. I created SEO blogs, product descriptions, social posts, landing pages, job postings, case studies, emails—even some slide decks. I didn’t charge nearly enough, went through a dozen iterations of my contract, created and recreated a website. Then, with time, I learned which industries I like working in and which I don’t; which clients I like working with and which I don’t; which deliverables are fun to create and which are not. I learned my value, I learned what I’m good at, and I learned balance. I homed in on a particular type of content for a particular type of SaaS customer. So, yes, I niched down. But I had to learn a ton of shit first-hand, first.