How To Get Your First Freelancing Client - So I want to go through three ways to get started as a freelancer consultant or coach, getting your very first client. Subscribe: bit.ly/ytsubdreams
So first things first, I know we live in this internet world, right? Everyone's Tinder-ing, no one's talking anymore. When it comes to working online, becoming a free freelancer and working for yourself and having the ability to either work from home or work around the world, I want you to actually forget about the internet from time to time.
What I mean by that is, I see time and time again, when people think that they're working online, that that means they forget about everything they've done, in their normal life,
in terms of work experience, contacts, social circles. This stuff is gold and you should be mining it, when you're starting out. Just because you want to work online doesn't mean you should forget about your offline world. In fact, I would highly, highly encourage you to focus on your offline world, what's real to you, if you will, when you get started.
If you're starting out and you just go on one of these job sites like in Upwork, which I don't necessarily recommend at all, if you just go on there and start applying for jobs, you're competing with the whole world with nothing to differentiate yourself. Whereas, if you stick to things you know, whether that's your own experience or your own networks or both, you've got a leg up on the competition. You've got a really good chance of hitting the ground running and getting a good quick start to your freelancing career. As well, you're less likely to have to drop your rate to compete, because you'll be working with people that you actually know, who will be more likely to actually pay, you know, some fair kind of rate.
Alright, so the first strategy I'm going to cover is exactly how I got started, I use this to get my first 2 freelance copywriting clients, within a couple days of starting out. I highly recommend this strategy if you have any kind of social network. Now what I did, and I'll have this, I'll make the annotation thing pop up here with the link, because I have this whole article on my website where I show you how I did it and I'll give you, basically the note to use.
I put up a Facebook note, and I said, "Hey! Here is what I'm doing," so in my case I said, "Hey! I want to try being a writer. I think I'm good and I'll be pretty cheap, and I work my butt off because I want to get referrals and make a good reputation." So I put this up and within a couple of hours, had my first interest, like people contacted me that, then became clients within a couple of days.
Just say, "Hey, I'm starting out," so in my case, "Hey, I'm starting out as a freelance writer. I think I have a knack for this, I think I'm going to be able to deliver really good results for my client, but I'm just starting out, so I don't even have clients yet. Just wanted to throw that out there and let you know, so that if you or someone in your network is looking for a writer, someone who's got a talent and a passion for it and it's going to be cheap, because I'm just starting out, then do get in touch with me and let me know, because I'd be really excited about working with them or working with you.”
"Hey, you know, maybe I do know someone I could refer," or in the future they might think about ways they could hire you. I know I do this. If I know someone who's looking for work, I will actively think about, could I use them? Is there something I could hire them for? Because it's just, I don't know, part of being good nature is kind of wanting to help people out.
You will be so surprised how few people in your network will actually know what you're doing when you start off freelancing. The reason being is that there's so much noise online and so much noise in general, in life now. And you're average person, our networks are far beyond what they used to be in terms of size, and so a lot of people won't actually know what you're doing. You might think, "Hey, I decided to be a freelance writer, everyone will know, no?" I can almost guarantee 90% of your contacts won't know what you're doing. So, reaching out to people specifically in a message and saying, "Hey, here's what I'm doing, if you have any feedback, advice or someone you can refer me to introduce me to, please do." This is a really good way to get started and get that first client.
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