tomherbin.com

What It Is

Tom Herbin offers French-language freelance coaching for tech professionals. The core promise is to help users move from being a CDI employee in France to freelancing in about 90 days, or raise their current TJM (daily rate) to 500-800€/day. This is not a traditional pre-recorded course; it is closer to 1-on-1 or small-scale, high-touch career and business coaching.

Core Content and Teaching Format

The page lists five teaching pillars: freelance pricing, finding high-budget clients, expert positioning and personal branding, administrative/accounting/contract management, and SASU, tax optimization, and income diversification. Sessions are delivered via Google Meet video calls, with mentions of screen sharing, working through tasks together, and handling urgent questions after class via WhatsApp. We did not find information about recorded lessons, a structured course syllabus, or any formal certificate.

Pricing and Service

There are currently two packages: Session Découverte at 90€, marked down from 150€, including 1 hour of strategic coaching, an action plan, resources, and templates; and Mentoring Intensif at 400€, marked down from 750€, including 5 strategic coaching sessions, 3 months of unlimited support, a private community, and premium resources. The page offers a 7-day satisfaction-based refund guarantee, and emphasizes that it accepts at most 8 new students per month with limited spots remaining.

Pros and Cons

The main strength is its very clear positioning: it directly targets the pricing, client acquisition, negotiation, and business management issues that matter most to tech freelancers in France. Pricing and service boundaries are relatively transparent, and the single-session option lowers the cost of trying it out. The downside is that the page does not fully disclose Tom Herbin’s professional background, past projects, or qualifications. Although the client cases include specific numbers, their authenticity cannot be verified from the page alone. The marketing language around “limited-time discounts” and “scarce spots” is also fairly strong, so users should evaluate it rationally.

Who It’s For and Access from China

This is better suited to developers, consultants, and CDI employees with strong French skills who want to enter the tech freelance market in France or other French-speaking regions. If your main goal is to take on local Chinese projects, serve Chinese-speaking clients, or work within China’s platform ecosystem, the fit is limited. There is not enough information on the page about access from China, and network/payment availability is unknown. Alternatives may include Chinese programmer freelance communities, remote work courses, or client acquisition training focused on platforms such as Upwork, LinkedIn, and Malt.