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Last month we hosted a session with Contra's CEO Ben Huffman and Stripo's CEO Dmytro Kudrenko on how freelancers can earn more with email marketing. If you haven't had a chance to watch it yet, here are the main takeaways.
1. The opportunity is real. Email returns $36-$42 for every $1 spent. Over 70% of businesses need outside help to execute their email marketing. And on Contra, email marketing projects average $2,000+ per engagement.
2. One project can become a retainer. The path: one-off design from a brief, then original creative, then A/B variants, then a full email design system (modules, brand kit, reusable templates). Once you build the system, maintaining it is the retainer.
3. Stop selling emails. Sell systems. When a client's brand kit, module library, and templates are all built by you, switching means rebuilding from scratch. That's not lock-in. That's value.
4. Speed is capacity. Faster production means more clients, more campaigns, same hours. holito went from slow, generic email production to 10x faster with a reusable design system built in Stripo.
5. Interactive content is a differentiator. Quizzes, scratch cards, polls inside emails. When a client's subscribers start expecting that from every campaign, and only you can deliver it, you stop being a vendor and become infrastructure.
@Omotayo A, one of our Stripo experts on Contra, is a good example of this approach in practice. He builds reusable module libraries that carry across client projects, connects each client's ESP directly to his Stripo account, and tests everything independently before handoff. One system, multiple clients.
Full session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrxwB43ML5g
What's your approach to turning one-off email projects into recurring work?
Discovery score: 114 → 137 in one week.
That puts me in the top 5% of independents on Contra.
No tricks. Just focused profile work:
— Shopify-only positioning
— Stronger project case studies
— Cleaner service descriptions
— Better keywords throughout
Niche down, show real work, write clearly.
The algorithm rewards the same things clients do.
If your discovery score is low — your profile
probably isn't saying one clear thing.
Fix that first. Everything else follows.
Drop your discovery score in the comments 👇
Let's see where everyone is at.
Impressive i have been struggling in increasing my discovering score, what advice can you gave me based on your journey
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