How I Found My First Freelance Writing Client
Well, they found me
During the pandemic, I worked as a digital marketing assistant at an early startup. The job allowed me to play around with copywriting for ads, web pages, blogs. You name it, I wrote it.
Mid-pandemic, I realized I liked the written word a lot more than I dared to admit. A year prior, I was still trying to code. I threw those aspirations out of the window once I realized I like the title of ‘programmer’ more than the work itself. Now that this was out of the way, I could focus on writing even more.
My output on the blog became consistent. As a result, my writing slowly improved, my follower count increased, as did that of my spreadsheets publication. The most popular templates garner traffic in the thousands.
This is how one of my (now former) clients found me. I visualized it in a comic if you prefer those.
A writer came across one of my blogs and liked what they read. They then shared the post with some of their team members, who liked it as well. Suddenly, I received several LinkedIn invites. What followed was an invitation to collaborate!
I was pleasantly surprised and equally terrified. The invite came at a perfect time, as I had just changed my agreement with another client and needed an additional…
