The biggest challenge most freelancers face when starting

out is finding clients especially the kind of clients who are

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Before you jump into this guide, I know you might be thinking, “But I don’t have any skills
yet? How am I going to get clients when I have nothing worth paying for?”

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With that said, let’s jump into the guide so you can learn 7 simple ways to find clients online
so you can start getting paid!
1. Friends and family.
Most freelancers start out simply by asking their friends and family if they’d be interested in a
free or low cost service.

For example, I have several students who do logo design, and they almost always
know at least one friend or family member who has a business (or just a business idea)
that needs a nice logo. Even if your friends or family don’t need your help, chances are
they know someone who does.

Don’ t be afraid to ask . You never know what may come of it. Post on your Facebook profile
and ask if anyone needs the kind of service you offer, or knows someone who might.

Even if you have to do work for free or low pay in the beginning, the experience gained is
worthwhile because you can use it to increase your skill, add to your portfolio, and get some
positive reviews and testimonials for your work.
2. Facebook groups.
Facebook groups are a goldmine for getting clients. About 90% of my clients come from FB
groups.

First, you need to know WHO you want as your client. You need to get specific. What kind of
person or business owner do you want to help? Bloggers, podcasters, youtubers? Writers,
accountants, doctors? You need to narrow it down. If you don’t, you’ll make it very hard for
yourself to stand out and find clients.

Join groups that would be likely to contain your ideal clients. For example, if you are
targeting female bloggers, find groups on the topic of blogging and stay on the lookout
for people who need your service.

Whatever you do, just don’ t spam the group promoting yourself! Try to be active in the
group, responding to comments and posts and giving value whenever possible (meaning you
need to study your market and be knowledgable about it). This will also make it so the group
posts show up in your main Facebook feed, making it easy for you to monitor the group on
an ongoing basis.

Occasionally, you may see someone post in the group looking for help with a service you offer.
This is a perfect opportunity to jump in and offer your help before anyone else does. If they
sound interested, encourage the conversation to continue in messenger and close the deal
there.
3. Google
Pretty much everything is on Google, making it a great place to find clients.

You could simply do a search for your ideal client (for example, “female bloggers”) and
see what comes up. You’ll find countless pages of resources that make it easy to find
your ideal clients and reach out to them directly.

Go to their websites, youtube channels, social media profiles, etc, and look for things that
you could improve or help them with. For example, if you go to their website and notice that
it is poorly designed, reach out to them directly and open a conversation about how you can
make them a more beautiful one that attracts their dream customers.

There is no shortage of people online who need help building their business. You just
need to find a skill that would be valuable to them and then find where the person in need
is hanging out. If they are thinking in their head, “I really could use help with my website. It’s
taking too much of my time” and then YOU pop into their life and say, “Hey, let me take that
off your plate for you so you can focus on more important tasks” then your chances of closing
the deal are very high.

Remember, it’s not about “selling” yourself. It’s simply about finding what people need and
then presenting an offer that is a match to exactly what they already want.
4. Hire a lookout.
This is a powerful strategy that very few people use, but it’s so easy to implement.

All you need to do is find a friend or family member who wants to earn some extra money
with just a few minutes of work per day. Their job would be to join the groups and online
communities where your ideal clients hangout and spend a few minutes a day monitoring the
groups and being on the lookout for people who mention needing help with their business.

If they find a potential match, they will notify you and send you directly to that post so you
can offer your help and close the deal. If you end up closing a deal with the person, you pay
a percentage of your profit to the one who helped you find the client (I recommend offering
somewhere around a 10% commission)

For example, if a friend matches you with a client and then you close a deal with that
client for $1000, then you would keep $900 for yourself and pay $100 to your friend.
This can be a great motivation for others to help you grow your business.

This way, you don’t have to spend your own time finding clients and you can focus all your
energy on improving your skills and serving the clients you already have.
5. Past clients.
This is a very overlooked strategy but it can make your life much easier. Instead of looking for
new clients all the time, why not use the people you already know and have them send
new clients your way or give you additional work?

As soon as you get done working with any client, you should always ask for a referral and/
or ask if they need additional help of any kind. Encouraging repeat purchases from current
clients is the easiest way to create more stability in your freelancing business.

Many people, especially business owners, need ongoing work to keep their business afloat.
Don’t automatically settle for a one-time project. There are usually several opportunities to
continue working with a client, even if it’s just a few hours a month.

If you have previous clients who you haven’t talked to in a while, don’t be afraid to reach out
to them and ask if they need more help. Even if they don’t, they might happily refer you to
someone who does.
6. Content marketing.
This is by far the best long-term strategy for creating a stable business and a never-ending
flow of potential clients. Clients will come to you, literally requesting to pay you for your
services, instead of you needing to chase them down and close deals through persuasion.

This strategy involves forming a brand around a specific topic and then creating content
to help your ideal clients achieve their goals (written, video, and/or audio content).

For example, if you’re a graphic designer, you can start a Youtube channel or blog
that teaches your ideal client about the importance of good design and branding. This
content attracts your ideal client and positions you as the expert who can help them
grow their business.

What makes this strategy so great is that it gives you the ability to offer a wide variety of
products and services. Offering services is the easiest way to monetize, but as your brand
grows, you can easily pivot and start offering digital and physical products as well, giving you
more passive, hands-off income.
7. Paid marketing.
This is an advanced strategy but it gives you the power to grow your business to nearly
any level you desire, almost instantly and on-demand. To do this successfully, you need to
know 2 numbers:

1. the average value of a client

As long as the cost to aquire a client is well below the average value per client, you can scale
your business easily to almost any level you desire.

For example, if you have to spend $300 on paid advertising to acquire a client for your
web-design services, but the average client pays you $1000 for a website, then your
profit is $700 per client. If you’re happy with that profit margin, then you can continue
to advertise your services using paid marketing and create a steady flow of clients.

If your profit is too low, then you need to either decrease the cost to aquire a client (perhaps
using better ads) or increase the average client value (perhaps by increasing your prices or
adding upsells and add-on services), or both.

This strategy is powerful because you’re using money instead of your own time and energy to
get clients. Instead of spending hours on social media to find a client, you just spend a little bit
of money and the clients come to you. This means you’ll end up making far more and working
far less.
I hope this guide has given you some useful tips for getting clients. You don’t need to use all 7
of these. Actually, you can go very far with just ONE of these 7. I built my freelancing business
to P200k per month just by using Facebook groups. So just choose one or two of these
strategies and take action. They are proven to work, so just get going!

If you want to learn more about freelancing and how to get started, feel free to go through my
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