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Tips on how to get clients as a freelancer?
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this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2023
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Stay off of Fivr or equivalent if you want to make real money and get a real business off the ground.
As for clients: networking. You just have to be a smooth talker to make it in business.
How do you network with zero or close to zero initial "connections"?
Sure it's easy to get jobs when you already have a dozen happy clients who recommend you to others. But how do you start initially? Through friends and their connections?
Bullshit. Fake it till you make it. Your new clients don’t know how many current ones you have, regardless of the network you’ve built (mostly).
In business, the cardinal rule is if you want business, look like you don’t need it.