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The “Secret” to Becoming an Expert Freelancer with a Jam-Packed Roster of Clients
Spreading ourselves too thin is something us freelancers are guilty of 99.9999% of the time (stat not completely accurate). We think that by having a finger in every pie we’re more likely to get work because the more people we appeal to the wider we can throw our net....
Why Social Proof is the Secret Sauce to Charging More as a Freelancer
“Can you send me some results you’ve achieved with past email campaigns?” This email landed in my inbox with a metaphorical thud. The old me (like, two-years-ago-me) would have come down with a serious case of the cold sweats as a mega-dose of imposter syndrome set...
35 Powerful Cold Email Tips to Help You Land High-Paying Clients
You’re facing yet another month with no potential projects in the pipeline. Your calendar is blank apart from one pencilled in project that you half-heartedly rubbed out last Friday when the client went ghost on you. You’ve scrolled through...
Why Building Client Relationships BEFORE You Pitch Leads to Greater Success
I received an email last week that got me excited. I mean yes, it was an exciting email, but mostly it got me excited because it meant I could share something cool with you. Let me set the scene. I had been sent a writing opportunity on a...
How One Simple Shift Can Change Your Freelance Business For the Better
There’s a saying I absolutely love: if you don’t ask, you don’t get. This rings so true for pitching. Think about it: if you’re not putting yourself in front of the right clients (you know, clients that you dream of working with), how will...
The Not-So-Magic Freelance Pitch That Got Me All My New Clients in 2017
Pitching is the absolute bane of many a freelancer’s life. Not only is it time-consuming, but it’s down right scary. But it's also the most popular way for freelancers to get new work. Source I know from speaking to lots of you that pitching...
The Fear of Pitching is Ruining Your Chance to Shine – Here’s How to Get Over It
When someone says no to you, does it feel like a punch in the gut? Do you shrink a little inside and want to curl up in a ball and forget it ever happened? Oh, you are so not alone. This is the physical implications of rejection in full swing, but let’s not get ahead...
3 Myths About Pitching (and the Number One Thing Most Freelancers Ignore)
There is only one thing us freelancers have to do time and time again (apart from the actual work, duh!), and that’s land new clients. It’s almost a full-time job in itself, right? But there’s so much information out there about how you...
A Step-by-Step Guide to Booking Your Next Freelance Client
Creative Freelancing Freedom is open for its final 2017 intake of students. Doors close at 9pm EST on Monday 16th Oct and won't re-open until Spring 2018. Find out how the program can help you go from struggling to booked out here! I’ve been working with fellow...
How to Get Comfortable and Seal the Deal on a Freelance Client Call
Making calls has never been my forte. I’m one of those people that would rather take any other avenue than to actually speak to a real person at the end of the phone. All those pauses. All those missed cues. All those times you speak over each other. It’s cringey,...
3 Unique Ways You Can Pick Up More Freelance Work This Summer
In my last post I talked about a three-phase strategy that will help you get your freelance business off the ground this summer. The Summer Success Challenge, as I dubbed it, helps you focus on three distinct phases of the freelancing process, building your business...
How to Get Your Freelance Business Off the Ground This Summer
Summer is here and it’s glorious. Apparently this is supposed to be the hottest summer the UK has EVER had and, for that reason, I’m SO glad I’m a freelancer working to my own schedule. It means I can go and sit in the park and work, or take an afternoon off for a...