Many successful freelancers don’t do any advertising at all - their services are so good that word-of-mouth referrals get them all the business they need. There’s just something about a personal referral that carries more weight than any sales page or fancy flyer ever could.
But you don’t have to depend on your clients to do [...]
We’d all like to believe that getting a full docket of clients and customers is as easy as flipping on a light switch.
But in real life it ain’t that easy… or is it? If you want to quit limping along the slow path, here are 3 smart tips to short-cut your way to the big [...]
Are you noticing a sudden drop in the number of business inquiries you receive every day/week? As a freelancer your income depends in part on:
Pitching your services in front of prospective clients
Referrals
Direct business inquiries from your website or print advertisements
The referrals depend on the good relationships you have with your previous clients. Since you provide [...]
As captain of your own ship, you’ve got to find your own customers. You can’t expect them to just call you up out of the blue, excited, pre-sold and ready to hand over their cash to yours truly.
Just kidding - that’s exactly what you can expect them to do. Here’s why …
Silence may be golden, but it’s no great help when it comes to building your business. You need to get the word out so that customers / clients come a-knocking each and every day. But saying “Hey, guys, I rock!” isn’t always the most effective way to earn a stranger’s trust (no matter [...]
Nick Stamoulis has been getting a lot of attention online lately. It’s not all good and that’s good.
Nick is an Internet marketer. An effective one it seems. He uses pay-per-click ads to market his services and attract new clients. The problem is, he buys clicks for recognized brand names so that he’ll appear on the [...]
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