Heyo! Welcome to the $100 MBA Show, the place to be to build a business you want with our practical business lessons.

I'm your host, your coach, your teacher, Omar's at home.

And today's episode is Q&A Wednesday where we answer a question from one of you, one of our listeners.

If you got a question you want to ask, go ahead and email me over at Omar at 100MBA.

Today's question is from Sammy, Sammy asks how do I get my first non-paying clients

to get testimonials now I know Sammy he's a friend of mine, and he sent in this question.

And it's such a great question because when you're starting out, you need case studies,

you need testimonials, you need work that you can show to say, hey, I can do this work,

I can do this job, I'm worth the money. So Sammy says I haven't got any

sales yet for my digital marketing agency and I'm doing free social media for a couple of

friends for recommendations slash testimonials. I offered free website and

social media via an email but no one took me up. Any ideas? Again this is such a

solid question and I know Sammy he's a very smart guy so he's going to figure this out but maybe it can help

him out a little bit. A lot of people say the hardest client to get is your first client, but

I'm here to tell you in order to get your first client you need to get your first work and

sometimes you're gonna have to do that work for free so that you can get a

testimony like I mentioned and show that you are capable of amazing work.

I'm gonna share with you a different technique

to get those free testimonials, to get those case studies, but also how to do it,

how to actually approach these people that you want to get these

testimonials from in exchange for free work, and how to get it done quickly so you can start

getting paid clients.

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