10 Ways to Get a New Freelance Client Today

There’s no worse feeling as a freelancer than checking your inbox only to see tumbleweed floating around and no new messages. As a freelancer it’s a fact of life that sometimes you will have a lot of work and sometimes you will struggle to find any work when you need to. This cycle – known as feast and famine – can be really scary and off-putting. It’s part of the reason why, here at Freelance Success, we really encourage you to implement a long-term marketing strategy, designed to reliably generate new leads and new clients. But of course, this is a lot easier in theory than in practice. Even with the best plans in the world, you can find yourself with gaping holes in your schedule. Feast and famine is very real, because it’s hard to find the extra time and energy to continue looking for new clients when you’re overloaded with work. This means a few months down the line, the work can easily taper out. So today I want to share some ideas for you to try out if you don’t have much work and you don’t know what to do next. Instead of beating yourself up, you can take positive action to try and get a new freelance client or grow your business. Of course these tactics are not guaranteed to work immediately, but they have helped me multiple times and can be great ways to snag new clients when you most need them. Most of these suggestions are short-term focussed – they are not designed to help you build the kind of long-term system we talk about elsewhere. These are for when you need a client, and you need one fast. Continue reading: https://freelancesuccess.co.uk/2022/01/19/10-ways-to-get-a-new-freelance-client-today/