by Lizzie | 14th November 2024 | Find clients, Freelancing, Pitching
If you’ve found yourself wondering how to write a cold email, you’re not alone. I get a lot of emails from readers who struggle to find the right words to put in their pitch or who simply don’t know where to start. It happens, but don’t make cold emailing harder than...
by Lizzie | 5th February 2018 | Freelancing, Pitching
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 your go-to job boards until...
by Lizzie | 15th January 2018 | Freelancing, Pitching
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 website I signed up to ages...
by Lizzie | 2nd January 2018 | Freelancing, Pitching
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 they know you’re open for...
by Lizzie | 7th December 2017 | Freelancing, Pitching
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 gives you the heebie...
by Lizzie | 27th November 2017 | Freelancing, Pitching
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...
by Lizzie | 6th November 2017 | Freelancing, Pitching
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 should get clients, where to...
by Lizzie | 21st November 2016 | Freelancing, Pitching
Pitching. It puts the fear of anything in all of us, right? Now, a freelance writing pitch can mean one of two things. Firstly, it can refer to the cold emails you send out to potential clients that you’d like to work with. These pitches introduce a client to your...
