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Q&A: “How do I stop every freelance project from starting in chaos?”

Do you begin every freelance project in panic-mode? In today’s episode we build a repeatable onboarding sequence that turns new clients into smooth projects—no assistant required.

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What It's About

Many freelance projects starts in chaos—can a simple onboarding system fix it?

Notes from Chris

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Winning the work should be the exciting part, not the frantic part. Yet most solo freelancers know that sinking feeling: a client says “yes”… and suddenly you’re digging up last year’s contract, rewriting the same email, and chasing files that should have been in your inbox days ago. Big agencies solve this with playbooks and account managers, but what can one person do? Let’s give our listener—and every frazzled freelancer—an onboarding system that runs itself.

"Every time I land a new freelance project, it feels like I’m reinventing the wheel—scrambling for contracts, discovery questions, file-sharing links, all of it. By the time we finally start the real work, I’m already behind schedule. I know agencies have airtight onboarding checklists, but what can a solo freelancer do to make every new engagement run smoothly from Day 1 instead of total chaos?"

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