I believe there are hundreds of resources and courses about how to find clients online. That's why I wanted to make my course different and talk about the freelance lifestyle, but also have to talk about this. Finding clients online is basically the opposite. It's making your possible clients finding you online. So you have to have a website, and a social media presence. I was talking about this earlier.
Let the people know what you are doing, and let them reach you. So put out your contacts everywhere. There are other websites where you can go to find possible clients and pitch them and work for them. These are like Upwork and fiber, and many, many more. For us designer, there's a page called 99 design and I'm gonna talk about that a bit. Because that could be a lesson for everyone.
I think On size like this, people are posting jobs, like create a logo for $50 or something like this. And hundreds of designers are creating logos, and only one of them is getting paid. For me this is going against my rule for not working for free. I will talk about this in the payment lesson, very important. Don't work for free, you are a professional. So pages like this where you are competing for a low amount of money with a lot of other freelancers.
Pages like that are usually a trap. You just gonna be end up bitter and working a lot for free. On the other hand, there are different websites posting freelance works. One of them coming My mind is the one blue.com I think by the blue group. It's pitching sites. So there are projects with a decent amount of payment, and you sent a client pitch.
You write down to the client, why you are the perfect candidate for the task. And that's much better. You're working a bit but Just to sell yourself is the same thing what you do on your website you are showing that you are qualified to do the jobs you are listing. When your client is speaking you it's your task to fulfill the agreement on your side. So one more way to find online clients is also building an email list. Make the people somehow subscribed to your email list, collect the emails and send out targeted marketing letters to them, where you are selling your services, or your online content.
This course is not covering it. I just say this is also an option for us freelancers. In the coming lesson, I will talk about something very important for me how to get local clients. So many freelancers are talking about how to get online clients and how to reach out to people on Upwork, Fiverr, etc, etc. But I think having a local client base it's also crucial for a freelance business