jana881•1mo agoProlific Poster

Bought a fancy 'client management' course that was just recycled blog posts

I saw an ad for a $297 online course promising to organize my freelance workflow. The sales page made it sound perfect, with templates and systems. I bought it, logged in, and found the whole thing was just a bunch of articles I'd already read for free on different blogs (you know, the usual stuff). It was a total waste, and now I'm back to my old spreadsheet. Has anyone found a simple, actually helpful tool for keeping track of client projects and payments?

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4 Comments

shanef341mo ago

Check out Notion. You can build your own simple client tracker for free. I just use a table with columns for project name, due date, and payment status.

keith_bennett1mo ago

That recycled content problem is exactly why I stopped buying those cheap courses. @shanef34 has a good point about Notion, I might try that free table setup. My current spreadsheet is a mess because I never archive the finished projects.

river9521mo ago

Ever try archiving old projects in a separate sheet? I keep putting it off and my main sheet gets so cluttered.

dixon.james1mo ago

Yeah, that "recycled blog posts" thing is way too common. I read a piece last week about how a lot of these cheap courses are just content scraped from free forums. It's frustrating. For tracking, I've heard good things about just using a second, simpler spreadsheet for only the active jobs and keeping the old one for records. It's not fancy but it works.