Hello, I’m Michael Janda.
Featured Courses
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.
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!
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
With inflation soaring and recession rumors proliferating from every “news” source, I have had several people ask me, “I want to start freelancing full-time, but if there is a recession coming, I feel like I need to stay in my job to keep my paycheck coming. What should I do?”…
If there is one thing I could teach you to dramatically improve the success of your creative business, it would be ALWAYS present your proposals. I have been a broken record on this topic in tons of different pieces of content. I’m sure you’ve heard it from me before. I’m…
You are rockstar agency for Acme Bank, your local financial institution. Word gets around and now a competing local bank reaches out to you. They want you to do for their bank what you did for Acme Bank. You are left wondering, “Can I work for both banks? Isn’t that…
If you’ve followed a significant volume of my content, you’ve undoubtedly heard me mention the book, The E-Myth Revisited, by Michael Gerber. I read this book around year 2 or 3 of growing my creative agency and it had a profound impact on me. In fact, I can probably say…
Proposals take freelancers and creative agency owners time to create, no doubt about it. Sure, you can speed up the process by repurposing past proposals and using templates, but most often a proposal requires time to explore and craft custom ideas. Since time is required to craft a custom proposal,…
You check your email in the morning and, BOOM, there is a message from a potential client sitting in your inbox. You don’t know them. They don’t know you. But somehow they found you like the needle in a haystack of other creative vendors. It is always exciting when a…
