Hello, I’m Michael Janda.
Featured Courses
This six suite course bundle covers everything from finding clients to managing your creative business. It includes 6 courses, 40+ hours of videos, 174 lessons, 60+ downloadable templates, literally EVERYTHING you need to run your creative business profitably and enjoyably!
Learn how to create, build, sell, and manage website projects to build the creative business of your dreams. From prewritten proposals and contracts to selling ongoing services like conversion optimization and web maintenance, this robust course includes everything you need to build and manage a successful web design business.
I grew my creative agency through trauma and toil. No mentor. No online courses. Just me trying to figure it out. Fortunately I made more right decisions than wrong and I sold my successful agency in 2015. In 2018, after billing more than $30,000,000, I left my agency to fulfill my true passion. I want to be the creative mentor I always wished I’d had. I’m sharing every system, process, template and strategy that led to my success to help you in your journey as a freelancer or agency owner. Learn more about my journey.
Recommended Reading
Why do some amazing designers struggle to accomplish great things and other mediocre designers find great success? Hard work? Being in the right place at the right time? Sheer blind luck? If you want to learn how to design, go to design school. If you want to learn how to work in design, read this book.
When it comes to pricing their work, most designers are just pulling numbers out of thin air hoping to make a profit. This book changes that. No more guessing. Price your graphic design work with confidence. Win more bids. Make more money. I will show you how.
Need some help with your creative business right now? I’m posting free articles on Medium.com to help you manage clients, price your work, pivot your marketing, and grow your business.
More Content Channels
Follow me on YouTube where I share systems and strategies to help creative freelancers and agencies run their businesses with confidence and earn more money. Check it out!
Beginning in 2019, my Instagram channel exploded by more than 10,000 new followers per month. I post a steady stream of advice for creative freelancers and agency owners, proprietary content that cannot be found anywhere else. Come join my hyper-engaged Instagram community, make new friends and grow your creative business.
Biz Buds is value-packed weekly discussion from successful creative entrepreneurs Mike Janda and Tom Ross. They share their journeys from struggling freelancers to both running multi 7-figure businesses, and the lessons picked up along the way.
Recent Articles for Creative Entrepreneurs
It takes far more than just design skills to find success as a creative entrepreneur. Your success hinges on your business management: marketing, sales, client relations, people skills, delegation, ambition, vision, and numerous other nuanced skillsets. Perhaps one of the most daunting aspects of finding success is actually selling your…
I have had some nightmare project disasters. Like the time I waived a $70k invoice just to tell a client, “We are done.” Or that one time I refunded a client $54k to get them out of my life. It is easy to use the excuse, “They are just a…
Esmeralda recently committed the fatal error of letting her client go out of scope. Her original project scope was for the design of a brochure. Part way through the project, the client asked for a “super simple” Powerpoint presentation. “It is just a simple little template that we can use…
A few months after I started freelancing full-time, I landed a small tech client in search of a new logo. I was young, dumb, and eager to please, so I pulled out all the stops! Round one: I designed 10, or so, logo options for the client. The client was…
Let’s get one thing straight, you are not a pixel monkey. The sooner you break the habit of pushing pixels around like a well trained chimpanzee and begin offering strategic insights that can move the needle of your client’s business, the better. This is the key to unlocking bigger budgets…
