Advice for Freelancers Who Are Thinking of Giving Up
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Advice for freelancersWho are
thinking of giving up
Stop thinking negatively and
put the following steps into action
right now.
Are you ready to
turn things
around?
Keep reading
and finally become the star of your
very own success
story
1.Expand your reach
If things aren’t
working out for you, Then what
you’re currently doing isn’t working.
It’s time to think differently
More importantly, it’s time to expand outwardly.
You need
to networ
k
You need to meet and get to know others
who can vouch for you when it comes to
securing more and higher paying clients.
Join a freelanceWriter’s communi
ty
Linkedin and
facebook...
Are excellent places to meet other like-minded professionals
Once you expand
your network, you’ll be
able to ask if any
companies are looking
for freelancers
.
You never know when a fellow freelancer
might be overloaded and looking to give away some extra
work.
Meet and greet with other professionals just like
yourself and you might just open up to a whole new world you never knew
existed.
2. Market Like It’s
Going Out of Style
If your current load of
work isn’t sustaining
you… Worrying about it isn’t going to pay your bills.
To keep yourself busy into
the future,
you need to market
your services
to everyone who will listen.
Word of mouth is an excellent way to
get the gears of change turning into your favor.
You are also encouraged to market
your services online.
Learn how to write content pitches and
send them to organizations who may be lacking something
you can provide.
You can use services like Manta and Hoovers
To determine
which companies are worth your time and that
might have the budgets
to sustain ongoing
work.
If you are a blogger...
Send out guest post requests to
your favorite blogs.
IF you’re an article writer...
Subscribe to the Writer’s Market to obtain the
contact information
for your favorite
publications.
Finally, and this is something very few freelancers do…
Ask for referrals after every
job is complete.
Upsell
Cross-Sell
And
The best clients to pitch your services are
the ones who are already happy with
your quality of work.
Use that to your
advantage to keep
your project
calendar full all week long.
A good rule of thumb
is...
If things aren’t
going as you’d hope,
spend as much time marketing
as you normally would on
client work.
Tony Robbins
is fond of saying, “Where
focus goes, energy flows.”
Market your services enough each day and you’ll soon be busier (and better-
paid) than you’d ever hope.
3. Raise Your Fees
Do you spend all day writing blogs and articles, web pages and sales copy, and still struggle with
bills?
That’s a good sign that your
fees are far too low!
Hopefully you’re not trying to
make ends meet by writing for content mills.
That’s a good way to stay
busy and end up broke.
Instead, find out
how much your fellow freelancers
are charging for the projects
you’re accustomed
to completing.
Those freelance writing communities we referred
to earlier are good places to ask about
going rates for blogs, web copy and other
projects.
You can also get going
rates from the Writer’s Market.
To raise your fees far
beyond the ones you’re
used to charging
requires you to do something
that’s not easy to do...
Believe in yourself.
You must have the confidence in yourself and your abilities, and you must communicate your worth to clients you work with.
You can double
or even triple
your fees for new clients you’re marketing your services to.
As Wayne Gretzky
once said,
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
Take A Chance.
Trust in your training
and skills.
Eventually that one whale of a client will say, “Yes” to your
new fee demands.
If you can manage to
expand your reach and build a network of fellow
freelancers...
Market your services consistently.
Raise Your Fees.
You’ll never find yourself thinking about quitting that business ever again.
Every Long Journey BeginsWith a singlestep.
SO put the AboveTasks on your To-do List,
Work on these three points everyday.
Soon you’ll ever
wonder why you
ever considered resigning from this
dream business
in the first place.
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