Digital Marketer contemplating the jump to freelancing

Hi guys, I'll take a minute to introduce myself.

I'm Sam, aged 32, from the UK. I've been working in digital marketing for the past 5 years, mainly for marketing agencies. I specialise in paid ads mainly and managing client accounts on FB, Google & Microsoft.

I spent 3.5 years in Australia and eventually found a company to let me work remotely, so I moved to Asia and lived there for 5 months, but eventually they wanted to hire someone in house so cut down my hours.

Now I'm living back in the UK and working in house, full time at a marketing agency.

I had a stint at attempting to launch my own agency during my time in Australia. My outreach method was lead scraping and email outreach, but I barely got any responses or booked calls.

What I don't like about my current job: 1 - Waking up to an alarm clock. 2 - 9-5 schedule. 3 - In the office every day. 4 - I manage 20 clients that the agency charges £800 per month = £16,000. And they pay me a fraction of that.

What I'm looking to achieve from freelancing: 1 - Time flexibility and location freedom. 2 - Uncapped income potential. 3 - Ability to live overseas for part of the year.

If I have 5-10 clients of my own I'd have more free time and 3-4x my income.

So my question would be, where is the best place to start when looking to source and land clients?

Sorry for the essay!

I appreciate all your responses.

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