Honestly, not in the business, curious when you're running a sale, how do you handle cataloguing and pricing hundreds of items? Is there a tool people actually like, or is it mostly PROSALE/EstateSail/spreadsheets?
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You'd think after a few burnout cycles I'd have this figured out by now. I don't. Every time a message comes in from a client who's clearly going to be difficult, or a project that's underpaid for the scope, some part of my brain still panics that saying no means the work dries up forever. So I say yes. Then I'm annoyed for two weeks. Then I do it again the next time. I don't think this is really about logic or knowing better, it just feels like something wired in from the early scared months that hasn't fully worn off yet.
Built Clarifeed, a scope-doc tool for freelancers — generates the scope document, then flags when a client request falls outside it and drafts the pushback message.
What I've done so far: LinkedIn cold outreach (my only channel), applied to AppSumo, building an X account. Result after 1.5 months: 2 testers, both from LinkedIn, both on free Pro.
What I can't figure out is the middle. I can get a conversation, but there's nothing between "interested" and "actually using it." No trial nurture, no follow-up, no reason for them to come back on day 3.
For those of you who got past this stage — was it a channel problem or an activation problem? I keep assuming I need more traffic, but 2 testers from cold outreach might mean the messaging is off, not the volume.