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How Dogged Persistence Landed My First Regular Blogging Gig

Three months and 17 e-mails.

That’s how much effort it took to get my first blogging client. I know it sounds a smidge ridiculous, but it was a worthy and important lesson in patience and persistence.

You know what the waiting’s like. Some days you can’t get it off your mind. Others, you forget about it and move on. It’s just like the wait after you send out a traditional job application: hearing little or nothing is the torturous part.

Here’s how it went down, and the lessons I learned along the way. [Read more…]

By Sophie Lizard 60 Comments

7 Winning Ways to End Your Pitch, Query or LOI

Do you know what editors and potential clients do when they reach the end of your email?

You should.

How? Because they should be doing whatever you just told them to do!

The process of winning new clients through direct marketing is simple:

Identify your ideal clients
Get the right contact information
Send them a message to introduce yourself as a freelance blogger
If you’ve got an interesting idea for their blog, give them a brief description or outline at the same time
They send you a message back if they’re interested (and the nicest people get back to you even if they’re not interested)

Do you see the yawning abyss there between Step 4 and Step 5?

That’s where you forgot to make shit happen. [Read more…]

By Sophie Lizard 42 Comments

How Facebook Helps You Find Freelance Blogging Jobs

You’re on Facebook. I’m on Facebook. Everybody is.

So it stands to reason that your potential clients are probably on Facebook too.

Which means Facebook must be a great place to find new freelance blogging clients, right?

Except… well, how many people do you know who’ve found a high-paying freelance blogging client via Facebook?

I don’t know many. And when I Googled “how to find blogging jobs on Facebook”, all I got was a big list of generic jobseeking tips.

The few people I have seen successfully working Facebook for clients, though, they’ve got it all figured out. I’ve found a couple of good gigs through FB myself, too. So I’ve gathered together some of the tactics that worked for me, along with tips from other bloggers who’ve hunted down freelance gigs through Facebook.

Ready? Here we go… [Read more…]

By Rob McNelis 28 Comments

Freelancing: How I Close Deals Faster Than You

Okay, you might be one of the few people who can close a deal faster than me. There’s probably 1 or 2 out there. 😉

Kidding aside, I do know the MOST important sales tactic, and I learned it the hard way. Take advantage of my experience to save yourself a lot of stress and regret…

My first business sucked! Definition of sucking: Not making enough money for your time.

I had no problem finding customers, or providing quality services. But I still wasn’t making enough money.

Dealing with potential customers just took FORR-EVV-ERR. I had trouble communicating my value, identifying their needs, and collecting their money quickly.

So I used this basic strategy to fix my business: [Read more…]

By Sarah Rickerd 54 Comments

7 Job Board Mistakes That Compel Clients to Reject You

It’s not exactly a secret that one of the easiest places to find freelance blogging gigs is on popular industry job boards.

That said, why is it that some people seem to luck out and secure the “cream of the crop” jobs, while others apply time and time again without seeing any results?

In fact, it might not be your skills that are preventing you from getting hired. If you’re making any of the following mistakes, your odds of gaining new clients go down significantly – so get your act together ASAP! [Read more…]