The Sprint

The Sprint is my eight-week program for freelance, agency and in-house designers who want a real way to land premium clients from LinkedIn instead of hoping the next referral arrives in time.

Skill got you here. Certainty gets you paid.

What it is

Eight weeks, run in sequence, building one thing at a time: two weeks on your profile so it speaks to a single buyer, two weeks on outreach that starts genuine conversations, two weeks on content aimed at that buyer’s problems, and two weeks on moving conversations to calls. Nothing clever, nothing that needs you online at 2pm on a Tuesday, just the four parts in the order that makes them work.

I cap every cohort at 12 and read each person’s profile, outreach and posts myself, because you can’t do that well across a big room, and reading the work is the whole point.

Who it’s for

Designers and creative freelancers who are good at the work and tired of waiting on referrals. Freelancers replacing referral dependence with a pipeline they control, agency designers quietly building a private client base before going out on their own, and in-house designers landing side clients without announcing anything to their employer. The starting point differs; the four parts don’t.

It works for introverts, and I say that as one. You don’t need volume, you need clarity, and clarity is something you can build.

What has come out of it

Designers who’ve come through have gone from $70 an hour to $10,500 in packaged projects in a single week, added a $5,000 retainer on top of an existing $11,000 client for a $16,000 month from two clients, landed a $24,000 project at roughly two and a half times their usual fee, and closed a $35,000 deal built on a $17,000 project plus a multi-year retainer.

None of them had big followings. None of them went viral. Every number is verified, and the results stay anonymous unless someone has given explicit permission to be named. The full list is here.

Where to start

If you want the method without paying for anything, it’s all written up at LinkedIn for creatives, and it works whether or not you ever join a cohort. When you want it built with someone watching your work, that’s The Sprint.

Cohort dates, what’s included and the current price all live on the program site.