Reduce Freelance Stress and Manage Your Creative Business with Bloom

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Managing a creative business can be chaotic and stressful. I tried every way I could think of to simplify the process: from dry erase boards, spreadsheets and printed project folders through a buffet of digital tools that all helped with "pieces of management" but didn't communicate with each other. Before I knew it, we had X software for finances and X software for managing sales and X software for customer relationship management and X software to manage production. Everything was disconnected and required a lot of manual transfer from one application to the next.
Today, you have Bloom, which empowers you to manage your creative business using a single application.
- Send invoices and get paid
- Manage project workflows
- Sign legal contracts
- Showcase your work in galleries
- Offer self booking packages
- Manage your customers
- Convert customers into opportunities
- Convert opportunities into projects
Bloom has your business covered! Manage the entire customer journey from a "new acquaintance" to an "ongoing paying client" with Bloom.
00:00 Introduction
01:08 The Creative Process Chaos
03:58 Agency Business Management Tools
05:49 Introducing Bloom - Business Management Application
07:01 The Bloom Dashboard
07:28 Bloom as a CRM to Manage Contacts
09:28 Transition a Contact into Project Lead in Bloom
10:33 Managing and Closing Leads
13:34 Winning a Freelance Project and Managing in Bloom
15:00 Using Bloom Workflows to Shepherd Projects to Completion
17:36 Invoicing Clients and Collecting Payments in Bloom
21:09 Using Bloom for Contracts and E-signatures
21:38 Overview of Bloom Features for Creative Freelancers
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Комментарии : 31

@theworldisrich Месяц назад

This video deserves a million plus views. Thank you for the break down.

@morejanda Месяц назад

Thanks so much!!!!

@amandaharbrow 4 месяца назад

As a growing graphic design business owner, this video has been so helpful! Thank you so much Michael for spending the time and effort for doing this

@morejanda 4 месяца назад

Hi Amanda! Thank you for taking the time post this nice message. It means a lot to me. Thank you.

@jhonny762 Год назад

man! Bloom is blessing! Specially loved the tool 10:47 to manage lead interaction Its super useful

@morejanda Год назад

Hey Jhonny! It is a great tool. Lots of capabilities under one app.

@prohurd6801 Год назад

Thank you. Super Helpful.

@morejanda Год назад

You’re welcome! Thanks for commenting!!!

@excelhighway3549 3 месяца назад

Nice video, looks cool.

@morejanda 2 месяца назад

Thank you! Glad you like it!

@kentjones175 Год назад

thanks for this video...! needed this

@morejanda Год назад

Hey Kent! Thanks for the comment!

@des7638 Год назад

Thanks Mike

@morejanda Год назад

My pleasure!

@CristianBaronetti 4 месяца назад

Thanks again Mike! 🙌 Can you suggest an alternative with current support for small teams collaboration? (4 to 10 people) An all-in-one solution like this would be great!

@morejanda 3 месяца назад

Check Teamwork and Basecamp as alternate options for team collaborations. Both are easy to use and can scale with your business. The invoicing side of your business...I recommend Quickbooks. I never needed my project management tool to talk directly with my invoicing and money management tool. But Bloom is a good option for an "all in one" and they are adding features all the time.

@sanicreative Год назад

I'm making the switch!

@morejanda Год назад

You will love it. It really covers a lot of administrative needs.

@sanicreative Год назад

@@morejanda Indeed! I jumped on a Zoom call with one of the employees yesterday. I'm in it as we speak. Thank you so much for breaking this down in such a digestible manner.

@RUIZERADEZIGN Год назад

How to I request a partial payment or deposit on an invoice in Bloom?

@morejanda 9 месяцев назад

You can attach multiple invoices to a single project.

@dhruvanshipandya1235 Год назад

Hi Michael, I am following you from so many months and I really thankful to you. I would like to share some facts about freelancing in India, how it differ from your explaination. Reality is no one would like to pay good amount for any project because many new freelancers are offering too low budget projects. By using freelancing platforms, we are getting nothing. Is it good to work on any existing project or any urgent base projects?

@morejanda Год назад

Hello! Yes, I am aware of the challenges freelancers from India face. I’m not sure I understand your question about “urgent base projects.” Could you explain it a bit more?

@dhruvanshipandya1235 Год назад

@@morejanda Thank you Sir for the response. Is it good to work on any existing project or urgent projects? How to handle it if can't achieve the deadlines?

@LindsayJo-Crenshaw Год назад

How are you sending proposals to your clients if that's not an option in Bloom? :)

@morejanda 9 месяцев назад

Bloom let’s you send proposals/contracts and get signatures.

@Peteristrate 11 месяцев назад

Where's the most important part: tasks, task management and how can clients offer feedback on any of your posts (whether it be text, image, video, etc.) in each task?

@morejanda 9 месяцев назад

Bloom is growing quickly and adding features all the time.

@mohibquadri4053 Год назад

Michael what's your thoughts about Experience v/s Expertise ? In terms of when an individual with lesser experience starts his journey in freelancing can any kind of expertise help more to him to bridge that gap of experience which other candidates have & how to properly use them to our advantage when fast success is the goal which is hard to achieve with experience of work as it requires on paper years of projects...

@morejanda Год назад

Expertise always over experience. I'd rather have someone new in their career but has amazing expertise...rather than someone with long experience. The challenge is that they usually aren't mutually exclusive. Experience usually helps build expertise...they usually go hand in hand.

@mohibquadri4053 Год назад

@@morejanda That's Great ! Could you name a few books which talks about it & highlights the main points behind this issue to gain expertise faster in our field of work...