Lessons Learnt From Freelancing

For what will be the final episode of The My Journey Podcast for 2020, Tom and I try to round up the year. We each share one thing we've learnt, one thing we've achieved and what we're planning for 2021. Before we sign off for the year, I just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has listened to the podcast this year! With hit some incredible highs and hit milestones we could have never have imagined earlier this year. So thank you to you the listeners for this. Whilst we're not recording over the festive period, I would still love to hear from you all, so please do get in touch! To suggest future topics for the pod and to keep up to date with my journey, follow me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram (@TheMJSocial).  To learn more about the services I offer, visit my website. https://www.themattjohnson.co.uk/ Remember, if you enjoyed this episode, make sure to subscribe, leave a review and share the pod with a friend. Every little bit helps us out! Thanks for listening. Matt

A quick update. To keep up to date with my journey, follow me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram (@TheMJSocial).  And to learn more about the services I offer, visit my website. https://www.themattjohnson.co.uk/ Thanks for listening. Matt

This last couple of weeks, I've been back to being properly "freelancer" busy. Evenings and weekends have been predominantly taken over by work... and I kind of like it! Now don't get me wrong, I've been through most of lockdown, but these last couple of weeks have been a step up in gears.  So this week, on The My Journey Podcast, I thought I'd talk you through what I've been up to this last week or so. I mean, this is the place where I document my freelance journey after all. Would love to know whether or not you enjoyed this? To keep up to date with my journey, follow me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram (@TheMJSocial).  And to learn more about the services I offer, visit my website. https://www.themattjohnson.co.uk/ Thanks for listening. Matt

In this episode of The My Journey Podcast, we try something a little bit different. We can't really ignore the elephant in the room (LOCKDOWN), so we try to give an alternative take on current events. We each bring to the table two trends that have emerged during the pandemic and discuss whether we're fans of them as well as whether we think they're here to stay or we'll return to pre-COVID norms. To suggest future topics for the pod and to keep up to date with my journey, follow me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram (@TheMJSocial).  To learn more about the services I offer, visit my website. https://www.themattjohnson.co.uk/ Remember, if you enjoyed this episode, make sure to subscribe, leave a review and share the pod with a friend. Every little bit helps us out! Thanks for listening. Matt

In the last episode of The My Journey Podcast, you might have heard me say I was going to cover top tips for how you should approach social media during lockdown. Unfortunately, that wasn't included in that recording, but it is today. Episode 42 carries on last weeks lockdown theme but this time I'm specifically focusing on businesses and their use of social media. Listen to find out my three top tips for dealing with lockdown as a business on social media. To keep up to date with my journey, follow me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram (@TheMJSocial).  And to learn more about the services I offer, visit my website. https://www.themattjohnson.co.uk/ Thanks for listening. Matt

As we enter a second national lockdown, Tom and I look at how we'll be approaching the next 4 weeks. How does it differ for the two of us? One of us is an employee-facing furlough for a second time and the other a freelancer looking to grow his business. Was there anything to be learnt from Lockdown 1.0 that we can use to our advantage this time around? Will we be goal setting or just taking it as it comes? Hear our honest and personal insight in this, the latest episode of The My Journey Podcast. To suggest future topics for the pod and to keep up to date with my journey, follow me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram (@TheMJSocial).  To learn more about the services I offer, visit my website. https://www.themattjohnson.co.uk/ Remember, if you enjoyed this episode, make sure to subscribe, leave a review and share the pod with a friend. Every little bit helps us out! Thanks for listening. Matt

To celebrate Episode 40 of The My Journey Podcast, I decided to take a look back over my two and a half year freelance career and share the top 3 lessons I've learnt along the way. There's plenty of small things such as the importance of your self-assessment, buying a domain etc. that I've parked to one side. These are the more general, culture-side of things I wished I'd known and appreciated from the beginning. To keep up to date with my journey, follow me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram (@TheMJSocial).  And to learn more about the services I offer, visit my website. https://www.themattjohnson.co.uk/ Thanks for listening. Matt

So far, they've not had the best reception, but Stories are the newest talking point on LinkedIn. Some people feel it's another step towards LinkedIn turning into Facebook. Others just don't feel the feature is up to scratch. Comparisons are always going to be made with Instagram, but in this episode of The My Journey Podcast, I try to reason why they might not be so bad after all by focusing in on LinkedIn and the mistakes people are making when they criticise the feature. As ever, I try to remain balanced, so I brought along some stats to help argue both sides of the debate.  To suggest future topics for the pod and to keep up to date with my journey, follow me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram (@TheMJSocial).  To learn more about the services I offer, visit my website. https://www.themattjohnson.co.uk/ Remember, if you enjoyed this episode, make sure to subscribe, leave a review and share the pod with a friend. Every little bit helps us out! Thanks for listening. Matt

It's probably one of the toughest aspects of getting started when you begin your self-employed journey. And one that can potentially make or break your business. But how do you price your services? Well, to be totally honest, I'm not 100% sure what the best way is. But here's my take on it. I look back over my past mistakes, examine where I am now and talk about where I want to be with my pricing structure in the future. To keep up to date with my journey, follow me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram (@TheMJSocial).  And to learn more about the services I offer, visit my website. https://www.themattjohnson.co.uk/ Thanks for listening. Matt

It's a long one! But that's because this is PACKED full of value. We kick thing off with our usual catch-up before diving into this weeks topic, "Leaders". We discuss what attributes and personality traits make a good leader, the role the people being led play and our experiences of good and bad leaders. After all of that, we then share a few learnings from our relatively new YouTube careers, before revealing our latest challenge! To suggest future topics for the pod and to keep up to date with my journey, follow me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram (@TheMJSocial).  To learn more about the services I offer, visit my website. https://www.themattjohnson.co.uk/ Remember, if you enjoyed this episode, make sure to subscribe, leave a review and share the pod with a friend. Every little bit helps us out! Thanks for listening. Matt