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Getting Your First Freelance Client

Are you new to freelancing and finding it difficult to get your first client? Here are some tips to get you on the right track of getting that very first client!

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From Roller Coaster To Solidly Booked

Freelancers experience the roller coaster of having lack of work and enough work until they learn how to stay solidly booked indefinitely.

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Bracketing Clients To Gain Your Niche: A Freelancing Strategy

Sometimes a niche you covet is out of reach, bracketing clients might be your solution. Check out this advanced strategy to get freelance clients.

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Stop Looking For Freelance Work, Start Helping People

Are you a freelancer looking for work? Stop! This method is so much easier to get freelance clients.

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Can Freelancers Avoid Anxiety?

Aspects of freelancing can cause anxious thoughts. Learn how to make those anxious thoughts useful while avoiding negativity.

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How To Write An Effective Freelancing Proposal

Freelancers need both productive skills and communication skills. Communication is arguably the most important because if you can't get an idea across, there's no opportunity to do the work. Let's see how to write an effective proposal that sells.

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How To Find Your Freelancing Niche With Convergence

By simplifying what convergence is, we can find a practical way of finding a profitable niche for your freelancing journey. This knowledge will make it much easier and save on a lot of headaches. Let's take a dive into convergence...

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Reputation Management: Problematic Clients in Freelancing

The absolute importance of your reputation on a freelancing platform and elsewhere cannot be understated! On your journey, you'll be faced with potential problematic clients. Learn how to deal with them at the start.

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Bootstrap to Freelance Success

In the vast majority of cases, new freelancers are spending their money and time on the wrong things in the early stages of building clientele. It doesn't have to be a "catch 22" or "devil's circle" situation of needing premium tools to get clients.