Growing your business is hard to do. Along with the excitement of growth, comes a set of challenges: how do you organize your new business? How do you nurture and support it? How do you stay motivated and inspired with a heftier workload?

In his talk, Matt will discuss the ups and downs of growing your business from freelance to agency. He’ll cover:

• Bringing in another person
• Finessing your business strategy
• Switching your focus from deliverables to solutions
• Focusing on collaboration
• How to airtight your process
• Staying creative
• Finding your niche/s
• Working with subcontractors
• Understanding your clients
• Dealing with bigger projects
• Making sure you have fun & stay inspired

If you’re thinking of making the transition, this one’s for you.

You MUST RSVP if you plan to attend this event, space is limited!

About the Speaker

Matt Brown is the Principal and Creative Lead of thingsthatarebrown, llc a small web design company based in Seattle. THINGSTHATAREBROWN, LLC crafts clean, elegant and easy- to-use websites and user interfaces for businesses and organizations.

Previously, he was Lead Interface Designer at SEOMOZ, a leading SEO firm. Before that, he was Lead Interface Designer at CATYLIST REAL ESTATE SOFTWARE, a national commercial real estate listing and marketing software company.

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Growing Pains: From Freelance to Agency

This Refresh meeting is held at the Fremont Library, located near the Troll. Please RSVP if you'd like to attend.

And don’t forget that we’ll all head over to Blue Moon Burgers in Fremont for food and drinks after Refresh. Hope to see you there.