Thinkific's Content Marketing Manager Tyler Basu interviews Matt Kohn, Founder of Different Hunger Media, on how he pre-sold his online course and generated $30,000 in sales before he created it.

Matt Kohn is the Head of Growth at Different Hunger Media, a brand that helps freelancers build profitable and automated agencies. Matt got his start freelancing before building his own team and agency.

One of my first contributor roles was at The Good Men Project where I posted content about personal development, pursuing your dreams and more.

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Matt Kohn was a frustrated freelancer but was able to leverage his time to build a $10k per month digital agency. Today, he shares his system on how to build a scalable agency from the skills you're already providing.

Before using Forecast, Digital Hunger Media was using various tools, Trello being the main tool for project planning. They found that it was hard for the team to create resource projections and obtain accurate data and reporting with their campaigns and projects.

Being a freelancer is often synonymous with being a "jack of all trades." You do everything in your business. You could be a web designer or writer, but you’re also a manager, a bookkeeper, and a marketer. Matt Kohn of Different Hunger Media shares his story of building his solo-freelance business into an agency. And how it's allowed him to focus on the development and future planning of his business.

Most entrepreneurs have so much to do and so little time to do it, which is why creating systems within a business is crucial. By streamlining your operations and creating automated workflows, you’ll have more time so you can spend it working on your business, rather than working on the nitty gritty of daily operations.

The internet giveth and taketh away. It gives us incredible access to cool and inspiring sh*t. But it also takes away brain cells. Seriously. It has become increasingly difficult for our generation to filter through the loads of crap in our newsfeed, on Youtube and on blogs to find content that is substantive and inspiring. The result? We end up learning about the latest Kardashian rumor instead of the innovative things that our peers are doing. So to help, we are putting together bi-weekly roundups highlighting folks who are chasing their passions, crushing it and motivating others.

Young business people often struggle with figuring out the balance between work and life, while still aggressively building their careers. While many know about the ideas from Tim Ferris about optimizing work and maximizing efficiency, it is not as easy done as it is said. After talking with a number of freelancers and entrepreneurs, a few major habits and mindsets stuck out from the rest.

It's not how many hour you spend, but how you spend your hours that counts.