Michael Koper

Michael Koper

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Michael is the founder of Griesllp. He writes about proposals, freelancing, and running a creative business.

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How to get meaningful design feedback from your clients.

Video placeholders in PDF and a brand new guide of how to do client interviews

Multiple sending profiles and improved deliverability

New look, Improved Filtering and CSV exports

Say hello to Tiny Reminder: The automated virtual assistant for freelance creatives

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5 Time Management Tips for Designers

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How to Generate Leads and Prospects for Your Business [Case Study]

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How to increase revenue 10%+ with an abandoned cart email funnel

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The Freelancer’s Guide to Answering Questions in a Client Interview

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How to Build Community within Your Remote Team

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Using Unconventional Networking to Grow Your Agency

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The Biggest Problems Agencies Face (and How to Overcome Them)

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How to Master the Leader Role Instead of Succumbing to the Boss Title

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How to prepare your agency team for success before a vacation

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6 Tips for Keeping Client Meetings Short While Still Getting Things Done

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9 Ways to Protect Yourself from Clients Who Don't Pay

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How to Make Your Agency Stand Out Even With a Limited Budget

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Why Your Agency Should Be Using a Sales Script

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Is Your Agency's Pricing Competitive?

Why You Need Hands-Off Leadership in Your Agency

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How to Deal When Your Agency Accidentally Drops the Ball

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5 Tips for Creating a Trustworthy Website That Converts New Clients

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How to Create an Automated Sales Funnel

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How to Scale Your Consulting Business Without Losing Your Mind

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Building Your Team: How to Find & Hire the Right Talent for Your Agency

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How to Communicate Your Product’s Value in a Saturated Market

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5 Tips for Building a Sales Team that Consistently Closes Deals

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How to Handle Objections Like a Pro

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The 10 Commandments of running an awesome Business

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How to Ask the Right Questions When Prospecting, So You Don’t Waste Time

The single biggest mistake you make when writing proposals and how to overcome it

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How Studying Your Competition Could Lead to More Sales

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Best Practices for Improving Communication With a Prospect

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5 Things you need to discuss before writing a proposal

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How to Turn a Potential Prospect into a High Quality Lead

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Tips for Collaborating Remotely Effectively with Your Team

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4 Things good sales proposals do

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3 Tips for Landing Those Seemingly Elusive Bigger Clients

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How to Strengthen Relationships with Clients by Delivering Results

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What Services are Best Offered on a Recurring Basis?

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4 reasons your proposal lost you the work

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How to Turn Your Current Customers into Bigger Clients

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4 Ways to Use Rejection to Your Advantage

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4 Things that aren’t the job of a proposal

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How to Handle Unrealistic Client Requests: Learn How to Say No

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4 Common Objections to your Proposals and How to Overcome them

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Should You Switch to Offering Niche Services or Stay Generalized

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How to build the perfect sales funnel for your service-based business

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Are Your Goals Realistic? Tips for Setting & Achieving the Right Goals

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Why it’s Time to Raise Your Minimum Acceptable Rate

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Staying Motivated in Tough (or Slow) Times

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How to Leverage Your Network for High-Paying Referrals

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How to Shift From Projects to Retainers

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How to make a Bigger Impact in Less Time for Less Money

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How to Set (Realistic) Expectations With a New Client

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What Makes the Strongest Proposal?

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The Freelancer’s Guide to Cold Email Outreach

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How to Get Clients to Stick to a Timeline

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Why Your Proposals Aren't Leading to Deals

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How to Market Your Business When You Don't Have Time

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How competitors can help grow your creative business

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The power of community in business

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How the digital signature helped shape modern business

An Interview with Marketing Director, Jake Jorgovan

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The 5 realms of project management hell

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The power of the side project and creativity

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Should you be a Jack of all trades? Generalist Freelancer vs Niche Freelancer

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What to do when a client rejects your business proposal

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10 ways to shine during your next client project

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First contact: How to survive your first call with a potential client

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Understanding and assuaging client fears

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The New Freelancer's Guide to Starting Strong

An interview with marketing mentor, Ilise Benun

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SWOT Analysis: Turn 4 letters into business growth

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7 steps to create the perfect customer persona for your business

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The power of focus in your freelance business

Interview with Richard Child of Grid North Design

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6 Ways to Make Your Design Portfolio Generate Leads

Interview with Maurice Cherry of 3eighteen media

Interview with Linda Misiura of Ruby Red Design Studio

Griesllp launches: Proposal software for creative professionals

The ultimate guide to proposals: An interview with Nick Hance

The Ultimate Guide to Proposals: Design is a distraction

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The Ultimate Guide to Proposals: Stop talking about yourself

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The Ultimate Guide to Proposals: Full frontal buzzword attack

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The importance of setting goals and falling short

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How to build a better client pipeline

Revenue via products, why settle for an hourly rate?

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SaaS apps to run your design studio

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The ultimate proposal cheatsheet

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Never talk about your tools

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How to win more client proposals with Brennan Dunn

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Getting clients to behave during projects

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How branding can help your freelance business

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The art of empathy: how to win a client with a single consultation

A designers guide to Ikea and the self improvement process

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Five deadly sins of a freelance designer

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Being a great creative is easy, being consistent is hard

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