Starting your own freelance agency with Dennis Kramer & Pieter-Pleun Korevaar (Livestream Repost)

Have you considered freelancing but you’re not sure where to start? Dutch designers Dennis and Pieter along with a couple of other friends decided to get together and form their own freelance agency, Kersevrs! krsvrs.nl
Watch our livestream replay to hear how their agency started, how they find clients, and tips for anyone wanted to do the same thing. Enjoy! ✨
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00:00 - Intro
1:17 - Start of livestream
3:42 - Dennis' intro
8:03 - Pieter's intro
10:33 - How did they start?
14:30 - How does their freelance agency work?
15:43 - How do they get to that point?
17:42 - Using Twitter and social media
20:18 - Why forming an agency instead of individual freelancing?
22:23 - Scaling financially and working on their own projects
26:08 - How to decide how to charge clients
30:40 - Distributing finances and funds
32:40 - Current projects
33:34 - How to balance project and client work
37:24 - Freelancing in Europe
39:40 - Design competition?
40:54 - Advice for early-stage designers wanting to freelance
44:35 - Firing clients
47:37 - What's the first step someone should take to start freelancing?
54:00 - What's a fun project you worked on?
58:14 - Faking it until you making it?
1:02:40 - Outro
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[@hannas1799]

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[@femkedesign]

thank you!

[@marija3969]

Great value in this video. Many thanks for sharing, Femke!

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My pleasure!

[@RogerAL]

Thanks for the video. This was great. Can you clarify to me what is a turbo shot? 43:55

[@ppkorevaar]

Dribbble shot. :)