Mr Ben Burns is a personal hero of mine, I'm looking forward for the day I can meet him in person. Been following the futur and also you, Ran for a quite a while now. So glad you could meet and make this great video for everyone out there. Thank you so much to both of you! Saludos in Spanish from Vietnam
"Be willing to open the door to the unknown". @mrbenburns Excellent interview, incredible story. @Flux I know you are very busy there but if you could do a couple of interviews more would be great 🙌🏻
Ran, I saw Demian Borba just at the beginning of this video. He is one of the Project Managers responsible for the Adobe XD project, at Adobe. A great guy to talk and worth interviewing. Take care!
TheFutur (blind) is só awesome. Chris Do, Ben Burns, Matthew Encina and Jose from the old videos. And I'll bet all the less known people there are amazing designers and teachers. Chris is literally one of my most important role models.
This is a good story, TheFutur have spoken to Ben about this before, very inspiring... I've recently been quoting what i think is fair for a logo design and people are pushing back. I'm going to stick with it and hopefully they'll be some out there that will respect my work and knowledge and want to build something together.
Just quit my job to jin a small design team to push myself - thank you for sharing this story. Makes me feel even more comfortable with my decision. Cheers
Great Video! I'm Mr. Ben Burns fan from the very first time when he was on thefutur, doing one on one interview with Chris, his story is very inspiring. Amazing that you have a chance to meet and network with people like him, I'm hoping that some day I will have a chance to visit some design event like the work week in yesemite. Cheers from Macedonia!
I'm so glad this came up in my reccommended because I needed to hear this for real! Thank you for this video! I heard Chris do say raise your rates and fire all of your clients and to see what it's done for someone else I have to respect it and do the same.
I am completely sure now, Google listens to our thoughts. I am almost broke, trying to get clients and more money, I'm freaking out and this video pops up recommended. Feeling a little bit better now.
I love how instead of asking Ben to raise his rates, Chris asked him to fire his clients. He set the expectation that *none of them* would agree to the rate raise. And when those few did - they were worth all the rest combined.
wow I think in some manner am matching you guys though I have not started my freelance career am yet a learner but I have decided from the day one that I will start with high price that I deserve and will never devalue my skills even if I failed to make a single client and I will start any other job like driving truck etc for $300 or less a month but will never devalue my professional skills by just trying to survive.
That’s an amazing story. I heard it back in one of The Futur videos a while ago, but it’s definitely a story worth to hear every once in a while. Great piece of content !
Thank Ran, you make awesome videos, lemme tell you something. I am not a designer, I am a software engineer but your videos became part of my life, so I eat lunch and listen to your stories and learn from them. (I do a bit of freelancing alongside of my permanent job though). Any chance to have a link of the video he mentioned from Chris Doe?
I really like this dude. His story inspired me. I left my teaching job last June to pursue new things and it was really scary. I'm still building my new life. Baby steps.
Keep asking until you find someone who says yes. If you're good enough you will eventually get paid what you're worth. And try to find clients from outside Romania. It's not quite the richest place on Earth. Look for international clients and when you get them, offer them a great collaboration experience so that they come to you again and recommend you to others. In my experience, it's not just how good of a designer you are, it's equally important to be a good communicator. Trust me, stiu ce zic! ;)
Not enough working with outside country, but you need to choose a rich country like USA that you can start working on projects that will be more than 50 euros. You need also aim people who can pay for you more in USA ( for example).
Hi, Ben, right now your story is blowing my mind. This is point I am now, upgrading my client to the high paying ones. The ones I have now pay little but their works are really choking me. Ben teach me strategy. I am in Africa, so I always believe that the response to the step you took is gonna have a poor result here (mindset differences). But please I need help in this area. Thanks.
Bro, I too am in Africa, if your clients don't want to be paying clients, find clients who are willing to pay. Seriously, all that grind for no cash and then making excuses for your clients about mentality hurts only you. Simple question for your clients, if you came to their businesses and consumed a service and did not pay, will they like that?
Seriously, I want to hear more of your story on how you fired your clients. I am in a similar situation and need to either charge them more or get rid of them all together. Especially when a few of them treat me like an employee of theirs with mudane tasks, rather than a consultant for their business. I have emails in draft mode for the past 3 months that explain my new rates. I just haven't pushed the send button out of "fear" of the unknown. I'd like to hear the feelings you experienced and how hard it was. Especially with the clients you have been with for years. Are there any other videos of Ben's story out there?
So today, I fired off that email that has been sitting in my draft box for months. Talk about nerve-wrecking! I didn't think it would be so tough to do but it had to be done.
@@thecalsolaroart Kind of weird actually. The "problem" clients kind of faded away naturally and I got some great new ones. I never hit that send button for the original email, I send a similar one that was less agressive. LOL. I guess that's the power of visualization. =) hope you are well and safe.
@Visionx X sorry I got the replies mixed up with another video. but yes, the problem clients kind of faded out naturally. I did send an email out that mentioned rate increased. Surprisingly, no one complained and as I said, the problem clients just faded out naturally.
Started as an intern? Do interns work for free in the US like they do in the U.K.? It really pisses me off that people have to work for free to get ‘in’. Not everyone can afford to do that.
If this dude wrote a book of his story I'd buy like 5 copies.
The Futur + Flux = YES
Absolutely
STRONG LOOK. 👊
The Man
The Myth
The Legend
Mr. Ben Burns
Thank you for sharing this, Ran and Ben!
Mr Ben Burns is a personal hero of mine, I'm looking forward for the day I can meet him in person. Been following the futur and also you, Ran for a quite a while now. So glad you could meet and make this great video for everyone out there. Thank you so much to both of you! Saludos in Spanish from Vietnam
Watching this in 2020, tremendous value, thank you
"Be willing to open the door to the unknown". @mrbenburns
Excellent interview, incredible story.
@Flux I know you are very busy there but if you could do a couple of interviews more would be great 🙌🏻
Ben’s Chris Do impression is perfect 😂
Great! Ben is awesome and The Futur team is amazing 👌🏼 Thanks for the video Ran 🙏🏼
Ran, I saw Demian Borba just at the beginning of this video. He is one of the Project Managers responsible for the Adobe XD project, at Adobe. A great guy to talk and worth interviewing. Take care!
We did talk about Brazil and kids :)
@@FluxAcademy lol, are you married?
Ah that story! More detailed and relatable. Thank you Ben and to the family @thefutur.
TheFutur (blind) is só awesome. Chris Do, Ben Burns, Matthew Encina and Jose from the old videos. And I'll bet all the less known people there are amazing designers and teachers. Chris is literally one of my most important role models.
Thanks 😊 for sharing this much value in one video
This is a good story, TheFutur have spoken to Ben about this before, very inspiring... I've recently been quoting what i think is fair for a logo design and people are pushing back. I'm going to stick with it and hopefully they'll be some out there that will respect my work and knowledge and want to build something together.
Just quit my job to jin a small design team to push myself - thank you for sharing this story. Makes me feel even more comfortable with my decision.
Cheers
How things turn out?
Yeah, how?
what a guy. such an inspiration. amazing work ethic. learned a lot from this video, thanks for sharing!
"Sell value".. that's the key.
So much fun and usefulness, seeing +The Futur interview with Ran and +Flux interview with Ben, in one day. Thanks!
10:28 Hope your wrist doesn't suffer from any longterm damage from that handshake, Ran.
Amazing story and video, kudos to both of you!
Ben burns is a great inspiration. I never knew logo design could be a career
So great story! Thank you Ben and Ran.
Great interview. Thank you for sharing this.
Love bens story. Looking forward to checking out more of your content flux!
Such an awesome and inspiring interview. Thanks for sharing!
Awesome story... motivation means nothing with out action. That's the best example
Great Video! I'm Mr. Ben Burns fan from the very first time when he was on thefutur, doing one on one interview with Chris, his story is very inspiring. Amazing that you have a chance to meet and network with people like him, I'm hoping that some day I will have a chance to visit some design event like the work week in yesemite. Cheers from Macedonia!
Didn’t see this when it came out. So was glad it resurfaced on the recommendation. Ben makes you look a little like kid in scale :)
I'm so glad this came up in my reccommended because I needed to hear this for real! Thank you for this video! I heard Chris do say raise your rates and fire all of your clients and to see what it's done for someone else I have to respect it and do the same.
Thank you for sharing this story, so inspiring!!!
Great video, and I agree, there's so much to learn here. But most important TAKE ACTION!
I am completely sure now, Google listens to our thoughts. I am almost broke, trying to get clients and more money, I'm freaking out and this video pops up recommended. Feeling a little bit better now.
Loved it! Thank you!
How do you know if you are good enough for those bigger budgeted clients?
Where can you find the self-assurance?
Thx guys.
these are the two channels i listen to daily :) much love
What if you don't have a clients
Awesome content Ran! Inspiring
I love how instead of asking Ben to raise his rates, Chris asked him to fire his clients. He set the expectation that *none of them* would agree to the rate raise. And when those few did - they were worth all the rest combined.
wow I think in some manner am matching you guys though I have not started my freelance career am yet a learner but I have decided from the day one that I will start with high price that I deserve and will never devalue my skills even if I failed to make a single client and I will start any other job like driving truck etc for $300 or less a month but will never devalue my professional skills by just trying to survive.
Thank you for sharing this and it became great encouraging talk to do more work.
Glad it was helpful! 🙏
That was an amazing story. Really excited for the upcoming ones!
That’s an amazing story. I heard it back in one of The Futur videos a while ago, but it’s definitely a story worth to hear every once in a while. Great piece of content !
Big heart Ben! Thank you for sharing ;)
Awesome! Cheers from Brazil
Huge thanks to Ran and Ben. Would love to help the futur and scale it to 10x the size. 🙏
That's such an insane story, thank you for sharing this!
Thank you so much! I'm trying to grow as a freelancer.
Work and value your work is the most important thing to do running your own business.
Thank Ran, you make awesome videos, lemme tell you something. I am not a designer, I am a software engineer but your videos became part of my life, so I eat lunch and listen to your stories and learn from them. (I do a bit of freelancing alongside of my permanent job though). Any chance to have a link of the video he mentioned from Chris Doe?
Great value and motivation to consistence and perseverance
Where did Ben get all those 53 client? Is it from many source or from a freelancer website?
Premium content right here! Great Job Ben & Ran!
Thank you! 🙏 ❤️
Just amazingly inspirational
I really like this dude. His story inspired me. I left my teaching job last June to pursue new things and it was really scary. I'm still building my new life. Baby steps.
What an encouraging and phenomenal story!
Wow, even after all of these examples, I'm still so afraid to charge someone 5 to 6 figures for a project.
Ben is an absolute unit!
I really need advice on pricing my logos and art! Please help!!
Narcotics to Illustrator CC - amazing
Very inspiring, thank you!
When TheFutur meets Flux.. that feel cant be explained..
It was awesome to hear ur story.
Great inspiration!!!
Thanks Ran! Thanks Ben!
@Ben Burns. Great story man!!! DO make content on this. Would like to see someone who is not from the traditional art background.
This is awesome. Thank you.
How can I ask more when where I live (Romania) people look away when I ask 50 euros for a logo?
We shot a video about this exactly coming up on The Futur channel, check them out
Keep asking until you find someone who says yes. If you're good enough you will eventually get paid what you're worth. And try to find clients from outside Romania. It's not quite the richest place on Earth. Look for international clients and when you get them, offer them a great collaboration experience so that they come to you again and recommend you to others. In my experience, it's not just how good of a designer you are, it's equally important to be a good communicator. Trust me, stiu ce zic! ;)
Not enough working with outside country, but you need to choose a rich country like USA that you can start working on projects that will be more than 50 euros. You need also aim people who can pay for you more in USA ( for example).
@@aleksandrseleznov8863 ت
This is amazing. Thank you!
I am looking for a mentor to scale, also some book recommendation
What an awesome video and story! Thanks! On to it then!
Wait so, How do they pay you? Do you get a gross pay from it?
Thanks Ran for sharing with us the story of Mr "Big" Ben Burns!
Hi, Ben, right now your story is blowing my mind. This is point I am now, upgrading my client to the high paying ones. The ones I have now pay little but their works are really choking me. Ben teach me strategy. I am in Africa, so I always believe that the response to the step you took is gonna have a poor result here (mindset differences). But please I need help in this area. Thanks.
Bro, I too am in Africa, if your clients don't want to be paying clients, find clients who are willing to pay. Seriously, all that grind for no cash and then making excuses for your clients about mentality hurts only you. Simple question for your clients, if you came to their businesses and consumed a service and did not pay, will they like that?
Such a nice Guy. Thx for sharing :)
This is inspirational!
Whats so funny is that I was listening to this interview from a far eating an amazing burger at the restaurant.lol
Seriously, I want to hear more of your story on how you fired your clients. I am in a similar situation and need to either charge them more or get rid of them all together. Especially when a few of them treat me like an employee of theirs with mudane tasks, rather than a consultant for their business. I have emails in draft mode for the past 3 months that explain my new rates. I just haven't pushed the send button out of "fear" of the unknown. I'd like to hear the feelings you experienced and how hard it was. Especially with the clients you have been with for years. Are there any other videos of Ben's story out there?
So today, I fired off that email that has been sitting in my draft box for months. Talk about nerve-wrecking! I didn't think it would be so tough to do but it had to be done.
And what happened?
@@timetravelvictim how did it go?
@@thecalsolaroart Kind of weird actually. The "problem" clients kind of faded away naturally and I got some great new ones. I never hit that send button for the original email, I send a similar one that was less agressive. LOL. I guess that's the power of visualization. =) hope you are well and safe.
@Visionx X sorry I got the replies mixed up with another video. but yes, the problem clients kind of faded out naturally. I did send an email out that mentioned rate increased. Surprisingly, no one complained and as I said, the problem clients just faded out naturally.
This is a crazy story thanks for sharing
WOW!!! Absolut impressive!!! Thank you for this awesome Video!
Great stuff!
Yes! It's very impressive story! Thank You @Flux
Ben's a legend
That’s a great story!! Can I ask what Ben was charging hourly before the jump to $100? :)
That might be the ballsiest thing I've ever heard in the business world.
Just by doing logos??
Such a great story, inspired me!
Thanks for Sharing your story .
$85k as a one off for one day or $85k 'per' day meaning each and every working day ???
Awesome man
WOW I am so damn motivated now!
The moment you said THE WIRE i dropped my Spen lol!
Amazing story.
The Pareto principle right here, congrats bud!
Excellent ! 👍
Mr. Ben Burns !!!
Amazing! ❤️
And Chris Do?
More people, more fun! :)
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wow, this dude can tell a story!
Started as an intern? Do interns work for free in the US like they do in the U.K.? It really pisses me off that people have to work for free to get ‘in’. Not everyone can afford to do that.
Work a part time job on top. That's what I did 10 years ago and am now sailing.
Man, how awesome is this..
Very relatable