I was brand new to freelancing. No idea what I was doing.
But I won 5 gigs in less than a week, and you can do the same.
A bit of background to this story: I come from the passive-income writing world where I create my own products and all the work I do is for myself. I didn’t know how to write up a freelance proposal, let alone how to successfully deliver services to a client! But I decided to try freelancing for two reasons.
- To create a backup income I could lean on for cash if anything went wrong with my passive income writing.
- To test a theory I had about business and life in general: that the way you communicate matters more than your background, and that you get more if you give more.
I’d outsourced many aspects of my passive income business through the Elance platform, so I was familiar with that system and how the flow of bidding worked. I figured I’d set up as a freelance service provider there.
[Note from Sophie: Yes, I know some of you hate Elance with a passion. But Lior’s approach to sending proposals got him started and hired fast, so set aside your Elance-flaming reaction for a few minutes and consider how you can adapt this to your own proposals, no matter where you find your clients.]
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