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How to Increase Your Visibility on LinkedIn

If you increase your visibility on LinkedIn, then when clients are looking for freelancers, you’ll rank high in search results. You increase your visibility by being active, which is #4 in LinkedIn’s search algorithm criteria.

Being active, also called engagement,…


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10 Ways to Get 500+ Connections on LinkedIn Fast

Getting 500+ LinkedIn connections is easier than you might think. That’s great—because you need those connections to rank high in search results when clients are looking for a freelancer on LinkedIn.

And having connections in common with the person who…


How to Make an Awesome First Impression

People often decide you’re trustworthy and competent in the time it takes them to blink their eyes. Here’s an overview of how to make an awesome first impression on LinkedIn, with your freelance website, and in…


How to Win More Clients with Your Freelance Website and Do Less Marketing

When you have a professional and client-focused website, you’ll get more steady, high-paying clients with less marketing—because your freelance website will do the work for you.  So you won’t have to actively “sell yourself,” the part of…


The Ultimate LinkedIn Profile for Freelance Success This Year

If you have a complete, client-focused LinkedIn profile, when clients search for freelancers you’ll rank high in search results.

Over the past few years, a LinkedIn profile has become a powerful tool in helping freelancers get steady, high-paying…


How to Get Steady, High-Paying Clients with Direct Email

Steady, high-paying clients make it easy for you to make more money with less work. And direct email helps you attract steady, high-paying clients so you can grow your freelance business.

Direct email frees you from low-paying, high-competition freelance…


How to Choose Your Clients Instead of Taking Whatever Work Comes Along

High-paying clients aren’t going to magically find you. But there is a way for you to find these clients, and then attract them.

Working with steady, high-paying clients is the easiest way to build your freelance business. But…


7 Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Start Getting the Clients You Deserve

procrastinating It’s easy to put off or postpone doing things that you know are important to freelance success—like marketing. But procrastinating only makes it harder to get the clients you deserve. Once you…


The Easy Way to Get Bigger, Better Clients: Your Specialty

Specializing is the fastest, easiest way to get bigger, better clients in good times and in bad. If you have an in-demand specialty, you’ll stand out in a sea of freelancers. Specializing also helps you get the clients…