Obie Fernandez

Consulting Masterclass

My friend Brennan Dunn and I have taken everything we know about bootstrapping successful consulting companies out of freelance work and packaged it into an actionable two-day online workshop.

In addition to the course material, you will be privy to hours of conversations we've had with other successful consultancy owners and gain entrance to a tight-knit alumni group.

You'll also walk away with customized action steps to let you take your consulting business to the next level.

Seats are very limited. Click here to learn more about the curriculum and how to register

This is an actual email from of one of our students:

Hello Again,

Here's what I've experienced over the past 4 weeks since taking the course:

1. In the last week I've been able to take two of my "do work once a year" clients into a monthly retainer relationships which will bring in an additional $20,000+ revenue annually.

2. Changed my estimating process from time & materials to value-based, fixed bids (with a couple clauses mitigating the risk of scope creeps). For example, projects I was estimating at $5,000ish are now closer to $8,000ish, and prospect clients are biting just as hard... harder actually. Communicating my companies value has completely changed our current & new clients eyes are willing to pay for any given product. If you're after hard data, two new clients are in the door grossing an additional $6,200 above what I originally would have grossed... and are both interested ongoing retainers :)

3. I'm planning a workshop based on Brennan's advice geared towards How to get new clients from your website scheduled for the end of January. This is an exclusive event catered to our Oil & Gas clients and their extended networks only. Our dev team is hyper busy while the web team is only booked until the end of February, so it's time to fill our web design/dev pipeline. Once this event passes, I'll keep everyone posted on what comes from it.

This isn't everything, just a few of the bigger notable successes I've experienced. I'd love to hear how your businesses are doing, growing, alongside giving back to Brennan re: measurable outcomes from this wicked awesome course!

Tata for now,
Kevin

I want a kill switch for all the electronic communications in the house

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I want a kill switch for all the electronic communications in the house. I'd like it to be a physical device, with a big red button, in my master bedroom. Kind of like how some people have a security console next to their beds, except mine would assist with mental safety. At midnight, BOOM, one of us hits the switch and no more internet, mobile phones or cable television for anyone in the household for the next 7-8 hours. The concern started with Taylor's disturbing lack of sleep, but extends to my own desire to limit my connectivity and inject a measure of peaceful detachment into my nightly routine. Self-discipline gets you part of the way, but not all the way. With a kills switch, disconnect and it's time to sleep or read or do something non-connected and relaxing so that our minds can rest. More and more I am finding that the always-on nature of our daily lives dampens our creative energies and saps my internal, more spiritual motivations.

Implementation of this device is relatively straightforward when it comes to the internet and cable television... it could literally be a relay inserted into the main coaxial feed coming into the house. Mobile phone is a lot trickier and would probably involve some sort of cell scrambler of dubious legality. I have not investigated implementation of this proposed device at all and would rather discuss it further with my friends in the form of a mind experiment, with the following kinds of questions: Is it a good idea to begin with? What are the dangers? How to phase in, especially with regards to my contrarian and somewhat rebellious 16-year old daughter? Is this thing even feasible and if so, could it be a commercial success?