How to Find Freelance Writing Clients

Find clients that are excited to hire you

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The hardest part of freelance writing isn’t the writing — it’s finding clients. At least, that’s the way most writers look at freelancing. The truth is that finding clients is more about mindset and discipline than it is about tactics and salesmanship.

You need to believe that you do great work and that you are providing a service to clients. You can’t have the mindset of an employee. Nobody owes you anything. You are a business owner, and you need to approach your client search like a business owner.

If you want to have a steady flow of clients, you need to spend some time each working day doing marketing activities. You cannot hope, wish, or pray your way to more clients without doing the work of finding and attracting clients. You need to look at marketing yourself as a core part of your job. Marketing is more important to your success than your writing skills.

Every freelancer has been at the point where they need clients right away to make rent, keep their power on, or to buy enough food for the next week. When you are in this position, you are operating out of desperation. While we all find ourselves in this situation from time to time, especially at the beginning of our careers, the faster you can develop a system for landing…