👀 my final (real) numbers for 2022

what I earned, how much I worked, and more… This is one of the most-popular emails I write each year, {NAME}.  Inside, you will find the juicy details and real numbers from my freelance business last year. Including how much I made, how hard I worked, and more…  And there are three reasons I share these private details with you.  - Insight: By sharing the exact numbers from inside my business, it can give you insights and benchmarks for running your own business. - Inspiration: I also hope that the success I’ve been able to achieve — through a combination of good fortune and hard work — can serve as inspiration to help you think bigger about your own freelance career. - Trust: Finally, I want to prove to you that I’m not some fake expert who overhypes their success. (For example, having a single month with high income and then pretending like it’s anything more than luck.) Because I’ve been freelancing for more than a decade now. And I have a documented track record of consistent, long-term, and systematic success. Day after day. Month after month. Year after year. So you can trust the material and recommendations I share with you. Don’t just take my word for it, though…  Let me prove it to you again right now.  Here are my [real, final, and unedited numbers for 2022](… First, I finished the year with $202,836 in revenue.  [30963883_1673456116GiD2023-01-11_2022-1-Final-Revenue.png]  So first, I met my goal of earning over $200,000 for the second year in a row. And it means I’ve earned at least six figures every single year since [I started freelancing full-time back in 2018](. That’s five years straight. Not many people have that kind of longevity or consistency. But [if you've been following along](, you'll also realize that my final revenues were actually down from what I was projecting in Q3. (When I was expecting to make $211,000.) There are two reasons I fell short of my projection from last quarter… First, I wound up with a few outstanding invoices at the end of December that didn't actually get paid until early January. So they're not included in my final numbers for 2022. (And instead, they will help boost my 2023 revenue.) But if those invoices had arrived on time, it would have gone a long way to helping me reach my projected income from last quarter. Second, I had a client scheduled to start a large project in December. But when the time came, they decided to start with a smaller part of the larger project instead. Which means instead of collecting a $12,500 invoice in December, I only collected $4,500. And the difference between those two amounts alone would have basically been enough to close the gap and allow me to hit my revenue projections from last quarter. But at the end of the day, I still hit my income goal for the year. So I'm not really worrying about it. Especially since I wound up working way less than expected to earn that income… Because I wound up working roughly 982 hours in 2022.  [30963884_1673456283Eb62023-01-11_2022-2-Final-Hours.png] That's more than 100 hours less than my goal of working under 1,110 hours for the year. And compared to last year — where I worked 1,200 hours — it means I cut more than 200 hours from my work schedule. That’s like taking an extra five weeks of vacation from a 40-hour-a-week job… While making the same income! But most important of all, it gave me the time I needed during the year to both plan and enjoy my wedding, then move to a new home at the end of the year. And it also means my effective hourly rate in 2022 officially broke $200 for the first time in my career…  [30963885_1673456300luK2023-01-11_2022-3-Final-EHR.png] My final effective hourly rate for 2022 was $206.56. Which means I easily beat my goal of making $182 per hour from my business.  You can check out [my three biggest money-makers from 2022]( if you want to hear more about how I was able to bring in so much money for every hour I spent on my business.  And with that, you’ve seen all the private numbers from my freelance business for 2022.  So now I have to ask…  Should I keep sending you these updates in 2023, {NAME}?  Hit reply and let me know if you still find these business breakdowns useful.  Because I know your time is valuable. And I want to make sure that you look forward to the emails you receive from me each week.  Until next time,  -Brian [Unsubscribe]( | [Edit your details]( Freelance Like A Pro PO Box 281 Bloomingdale New Jersey 07403 United States [Powered By Kartra] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -