How to Get New Clients
Three Rules
Matt D'Avella
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2017
⏱️ 10 minutes
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The question I get most often from freelancers and curious friends is, "How do you get new clients?" In this episode I break down how I've built my client base and offer tips for those looking to start something new.
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| 0:00.0 | I woke up at 1.30 p.m. today. It's going to make me sound like a piece of shit, but there's an excuse. |
| 0:06.6 | I have a good excuse. I just got back from Australia. It was like a 25, 26 hour flight. |
| 0:11.7 | My schedule is still a little bit screwed up. Got the bed at like 3.34 a.m. I've come to realize, |
| 0:17.8 | at least doing this twice, that there's not much you can do about Jet. |
| 0:22.3 | Like, you can try to, you know, change your clocks and set it early. |
| 0:25.8 | But at the end of the day, no matter what, your body is going to feel like it's not the correct time. |
| 0:32.6 | At this point, I'm pushing through. |
| 0:34.0 | Anyway, ground up, episode three. |
| 0:35.6 | Let's go. |
| 0:42.0 | Okay. pushing through. Anyway, ground up, episode three. Let's go. All right. So today I want to talk about how to get clients. This is by far the question |
| 0:47.6 | that I get most from people who are just curious about what I do and how I'm able to run my business as a freelancer. |
| 0:56.9 | How do I get new clients? And also people who are just getting started out. I think that's |
| 1:01.0 | probably one of the biggest things. You know, obviously before you can have a business, you need to |
| 1:06.0 | have clients. And I think a lot of people suspect that advertising might be involved, that you might need |
| 1:15.1 | to market your services in some way. |
| 1:18.1 | But, and I can only speak for myself, this is what has worked for me. |
| 1:22.8 | I've never advertised. |
| 1:26.4 | Technically, I did advertise once. Back when I was doing weddings. I was just |
| 1:31.1 | getting started out. And so I was doing weddings for very cheap, like pretty much like $1,000 for a |
| 1:37.2 | wedding. It was just me. I would go out, film the whole day and edit. And you know what? When you're just |
| 1:40.8 | getting started out, a thousand bucks for 10 hour a day, plus a couple weeks of editing is amazing. |
| 1:46.3 | But when it's just getting started out, I had this idea. |
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