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When giants clash… a new hero rises. ⚔️✨
Fiverr and Upwork built the battlefield. Freelancers fought hard, paid the price and kept creating.
But Contra changes the game.
No platform fees.😍
No bidding wars.😊
No middlemen.💯
Just freelancers and clients connected directly, fairly and transparently.
This isn’t about replacing platforms. It’s about empowering creators 💪 It’s about keeping what you earn 💰 It’s about the future of freelancing.🚀
Contra isn’t fighting the giants — it’s rising beyond them.🎉
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💡 Imagine creating & selling Contra Portfolio themes natively, inside Contra as digital products 🎨 listed on creator profiles & within the theme customization area.
The infrastructure's already there—Portfolio themes (templates) populate from Contra content (projects, services, testimonials)—AND the price of a Pro or Max subscription is roughly equal to 3rd party site hosting, BUT with zip, ZERO, nada content migration hassle. 😌🪄✨
3 little changes that can add big value to Portfolio sites:
🛍️ Products — a shoppable page for Contra-hosted digital products.
📝 Posts — our community posts as a lightweight micro-blog.
💌 Messages — widget routing inquiries to Contra inbox.
To me, this feels like a natural next step. 😁 Would you use this feature or create a Portfolio theme? Let me know what you think!
The shoppable products page idea is genuinely exciting. Selling digital products directly from your Contra profile would be a game changer!
The gap between "freelancer who does great work" and "freelancer who builds something that compounds" isn't talent.
It's not marketing either.
It's just not deleting the thing you already made.
I spent years rebuilding the same frameworks from scratch on every client project. Same positioning docs. Same guidelines structure. Same strategy templates. Delivered, closed, forgot, repeated.
Last week I finally packaged all of it.
Wrote about why it took me this long in this week's BRIGHT Method.
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Your Client Work Is Already a Product. You Just Keep Deleting It.
I had a bit of a moment last week. I was going through old project folders — brand strategies, positioning docs, naming frameworks, guidelines decks — and it hit me how dumb I’d been.
Such a sharp way to frame this.
Took me a while to realize how much valuable work I was ‘resetting’ instead of compounding.
5 years ago already, I have started my company and become an independent.
A lot has happened in those 5 years, and I’ve been lucky to experience so much. Even though I’m personally not very good at looking back at my own achievements, I’m still pretty proud that after 5 years I’m still going strong, that I’m able to pay my rent every month, and that I can see growth.
It’s definitely not always easy, and at times it takes a toll on my mental health, but I’m still glad I took the step to start freelancing 5 years ago.
In those 5 years I haven’t just created beautiful videos, I’ve given workshops to young people on creating videos, gave private lessons to people wanting to learn videomaking, made reviews, written an article and more.
How do I see the next 5 years? No idea, I’m already happy if I know what next week will look like
Big milestone 👏 Staying independent for 5 years is no small feat. Consistency & resilience quietly compound over time.
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