The FreelanceSwitch Client Analyser
SkellieI’m happy to announce today we have a new resource in our resource library, and it’s based on the 80/20 or Pareto Principle. If you don’t know what the 80/20 principle is, you should read my post 80-20 Freelancing for an overview. It’s a simple but extremely effective idea that you can apply to all sorts of things in life.
A couple months ago, Collis asked awesome programmer Chris Hulbert to see if he could make something that let you analyse your clients using the 80/20 principle and together they came up with a Client Analyser tool.
The way it works is that you put in your clients, answer some questions about them and then it lines up the data into tables, showing you where the results are coming from so you can compare and contrast them. The more clients you add, the better it works.
You should note, it’s not meant to be a very serious tool, more just a lightweight look at some of your client list. If you put in the minimum 8 clients and just guess values you can go through in about 10 minutes or so, and longer for more clients and more precision.
So have a play and enjoy our latest resource: Launch the Client Analyser
The next resource which we’ve been working on and which is also almost ready is a document library. Collis tells me it should be ready for release soon.





















Aloke Pillai
March 5th, 2008
Awesome! I am soo excited to use it!
Keep Rocking!
Aloke Pillai
Damien
March 5th, 2008
I love it, just wish I’d gotten around to doing this first.
The Goose
March 5th, 2008
wow this is freakin cool, just very nice to see everything laid out so nicely to fast, and solid stylish freelanceswitch style, i love it.
wbd
March 5th, 2008
Interesting little exercise, although a nice addition would be the ability to add clients to your initial number. I chose 8 (the minimum) to start with, then wanted to add more, but that meant having to start over and repeat the input process for the initial clients again - so I gave that a miss.
riki
March 5th, 2008
What happens to the data that gets entered? Is it retained?
Sean
March 5th, 2008
like the idea, just gonna have a go now. Love the resources you guys put out…and your articles are excelent, keep up the great work!
Niki Brown
March 5th, 2008
I wish i had more than 8 clients
Someday soon hopefully!
Eliffio
March 5th, 2008
Wow guys! you dont stop surprising us´with new stuff!!
Thanx!!!
Laura
March 5th, 2008
Very awesome - just what I needed!
Thanks so much!
Collis
March 5th, 2008
Hey Riki, the data is just held in session variables and then flushed away afterwards. I should probably add a privacy statement in there somewhere, sorry!
Mark Abucayon
March 8th, 2008
This is great yet helpful thoughts. thanks for this one.
jnelson
March 12th, 2008
I’m definitely submitting this to BizSugar! Great idea.