Streamlining Your Freelance Workflow: How Mike Cervantes Manages Thousands of Projects Per Year

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This is the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, Episode 249

Welcome to the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, where our mission is to help you turn your creative passions into a stable, reliable income. If you're in audio, video, design, photography, or really any other creative field, and you just want to learn from other successful creatives, you're in the right place.

Hello and welcome to the 6 Figure Creative Podcast. I am your host, Brian Hood. If this is your first time listening to the show, first of all, welcome. Thanks for joining me on the show today. This podcast is for creative freelancers who are trying to earn more money without selling their soul.

If that sounds like you, you're in the right place. Unfortunately, you're on the wrong episode. This is a part two of the conversation we had last week with Mike Cervantes, which is a multi 6 Figure freelance master engineer. Wonderful conversation. Got a lot of great feedback from that. Mike is a long time listener of the show. Well, it was like a two hour conversation that we had. I don't know what it got edited down to timeline wise, but it turned into two part episode. So this is the continuation of last week's episode. So if you didn't listen to that, go listen to episode 248 before you listen to this episode or else it just kind of comes on in the middle of the conversation. Not the smoothest transition between episode to episode, but what can you do when you're in the middle of a long, great conversation? This episode, we talked more about the system side of things. Like how does he actually run his business from a system standpoint, especially as someone who is already making multiple six figures a year and somebody who is still on pace to grow an additional 40% this year. That's a big growth spurt for somebody who's already multiple six figures. It's not that big if you're only doing like 50, 60,000 a year, although it's still pretty decent growth for anybody, but especially for somebody already doing multiple six figures, we talked about the systems he's using for that. We talked about the future we see for his business. And we also even talked about whether or not he can become a one person, seven figure freelancer. Fascinating conversation in my opinion. For my audio nerds, we also get into the weeds a little bit with SOTY Atmos, which is just definitely not something we ever talk about on the show. Never have in the past, I don't think, but for a select few of our listeners who are the audio nerds from our background, you'll love that part of the conversation. Life update really quick. Been in hardcore hiring mode for 6 Figure Creative right now. We just hired a full-time person who starts yesterday by the time this episode airs. This should be the first day Monday.

And then there should be a new job description up for another position that we're hiring for. If you are somebody who is amazing at sales, talk to me. Go to 6figurecreative.com/hiring.

That should forward to whatever position that's open right now. Maybe if you're listening to this episode, years in the future and we're not hiring for that role anymore, hopefully that page will still forward to something that has jobs that we're hiring for. I still have this to hire for and one or two more positions to hire for this year. And then probably even a couple more by the end of the year. So this is a big growth year for 6 Figure Creative. If you're interested in working here, awesome company, awesome founder. Hi, that's me.

Just go to 6figurecreative.com/hiring. I will say this, hiring is a lot of work. For somebody who has avoided hiring full-time people, avoided really scaling the team out for way too long, it's been a huge detriment to my growth.

And again, something I want to talk about more and more as I learn more about actually growing, managing, leading a team, that's an area that I'm growing with personally right now, and I'm learning a lot in that area. So I'll have some stuff to talk about there, especially as I learn things the hard way, which I tend to do. So again, if you want to work for 6 Figure Creative, I'm hiring for a sales rep right now, somebody who is a great people person, somebody who is a natural sales person, someone who's preferably sold a lot of products or services in the past. It starts as part-time. If you're good at it, it pays incredibly well. Probably about a full-time income from part-time work. If you can hit your KPIs. But again, just go to 6figurecreative.com/hiring if you're interested in that. If you're not interested or if you've already applied, let's move on to my conversation, continuing part two from last week with Mike Cervantes of the Fox Bro Mastering Studio. Thank you.