Until this past spring, all of my experience on Upwork was as a buyer. I prefer to work with business partners face-to-face. Upwork was just a place to hire quick help. And then Covid-19 hit, …
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How To Find Clients for Consulting & Services
For our next trick, we’re going to introduce a truly earth-shattering concept here: take a skill you already know and find a way to get someone to pay you for it. With a specific emphasis …
Continue readingLanding Your First Client: The 24-Hour Challenge
You have a great marketing skill that can really help businesses. You’re good at what you do, you may even have some experience doing it as a day job for a larger company. However, now …
Continue readingConsulting 101 – Using Free Samples Effectively
When you’re starting out as a freelancer, the hardest part is landing your first client. A common objection you’ll hear is that you don’t have any past client references or work samples. You can’t blame …
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Editor’s Note: Like the work of administration and project management but not the hours and, worse, the need to be physically present? Check out the story about being a virtual assistant. The idea of being …
Continue readingHow To Get Consulting Clients on LinkedIn
If you already have some specific skill or experience helping businesses make more money, consulting has always been a great service-based business to start. You don’t need employees, inventory, expensive software, or even a website …
Continue readingHow To Get (Good) Clients on Upwork
Editor’s Note: So what if we just… kept doing our old job, on a contract basis? How might that work? Surprisingly well, if you have the right skills and the right clients. This article is from …
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