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Your Email Signature: The Secret Weapon You’re Overlooking

A marketing email signature helps you stand out from other freelancers with every email you send. In less than 5 minutes, you can create and start to use this powerful marketing tool.

Usually, when something sounds too good…


Recent Posts

3 Easy Ways to Get More Referrals from Your Clients

Get more referrals to steady, high-paying clients by satisfying your current clients. When you do this, your clients will refer you to their colleagues inside and outside of their companies.

Just ask Kristin Harper, PhD, MPH, ELSMia…


The Surprising Thing That Will Get You More Freelance Work: Follow Up

Would you spend a few hours a month or less to get more clients? Following up with clients who are interested in working with you but haven’t hired you yet is an easy…


How to be Irresistible to Your Clients: Do More than Expected

If you want more freelance work from your current clients, just act like a freelance concierge and do more than expected. Satisfied clients will give you more freelance work, and they’re likely to refer you…


Professional Associations: An Easy Way to Get More Freelance Work

Professional associations are where you’ll find people working for the clients you want to work with, and freelance colleagues who can give you referrals to other clients. They’re an easy way to get more freelance…


6 Proven Strategies that Helped Freelancer Brandon May Succeed

6 strategies that helped Brandon May succeed as a freelancer

When Brandon May started his freelance writing business in 2015, he was like most freelancers and didn’t know much about marketing. “I was…


The Secret Weapon that Helps 4 Freelancers Get their Ideal Clients

 

When done right, direct email is an awesome way to find and get steady, high-paying clients. It lets you choose the clients you want to work with and attract them by showing you understand and…


From Struggle to Success as a Freelancer: What Oki Dzivenu Did

When Oki Dzivenu, DPhil, ELS, first tried freelancing the first time, things didn’t go so well. “I changed my LinkedIn profile and set up a website. Then I waited and waited. Nothing happened,” he says.Oki soon learned that experience…


Big Clients (Whales) = More Success, Less Stress

Whales are giant, awe-inspiring creatures that roam the oceans.They’re also big clients that you can count on for steady, high-paying freelance work.

In business lingo, a whale is a prospect that’s at least 10 times larger…