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To Be a Better Freelancer, Follow These 5 steps
Learn how to find freelance clients and build a freelance career.
The hardest part about freelancing is building systems.
As a team of one, it’s incredibly hard to do everything yourself. You must market your services, pay taxes, do the work, and more.
Structure and systems help you be a better freelancer. But what does that even look like? It took me years to figure it out. I guessed at it. I did things randomly. Until I mastered these five steps.
Here are the five steps you need to master to be a better, higher-paying freelancer.
1. Consistent marketing
I often hear freelancers say, “I don’t need to market myself because I have enough clients.”
That’s a mistake. Because these same freelancers are often scrambling to find new clients when they lose a client. Freelancers need to systemize their marketing efforts to keep their pipeline full.
That means they need to create a consistent marketing plan to meet their target market. Posting on LinkedIn, Twitter, and cold emailing are part of my marketing efforts.
If I can’t take any more clients, I do two things:
- Refer them to another…
