What is the best way to get clients if you are a newbie freelancer?

Ritwik Ahlawat

Feb 16 in 🗣 General

Nobody gives a penny until you are a star freelancer with tons of reviews.

But this is something you can do to get your first project as I did several times and taught many.

Let’s say a potential client posted a job on a freelancing website. Let’s say it’s a product packaging job.

Now, the question is, how can you approach it? Nobody knows you.

How can you approach ? 🤔

Bid on the project or play the contest and say “Hey there, I want to do it for free. I hope you will give me an opportunity. It’s absolutely free. Try me out.”

Now, the client will think of giving you the project and try you out.

But why would he waste his precious time?

So, before that…

🫡You must have 3 things:

A complete portfolio of your work. (Display all the designs you make when practicing packaging designing.)
A website where people will redirect when they search for your name.
A good LinkedIn profile with good reviews.

Look,

Clients want to know if you are legit💯 or not. You need some social proof and recommendations on LinkedIn Or your Facebook page.

Now, you can pitch like this:

“Hi, I want to do it for you for free just to build a good future relationship. This is Ritwik Alhawat (your name) from YourSalesPitch (your company’s name), a reputed company which has been making packaging designs for 5 years for many reputed brands.

Me and my team make packaging designs that can sell your product.

Here is our work (Your YouTube/ Instagram / any other portfolio link).

Check this out.

For more projects, just Google my name.

You can also send me a message on LinkedIn or call on Skype so that we can discuss more about your packaging design and come up with an awesome strategy to design the packaging that your customers will love.

Hey, it’s free. If you want to pay, you can pay. But we will accept payment only after the complete work is done and when you will be completely satisfied.”

I have pitched my clients several times like this.

Every project needs a different pitch. Don’t use this one directly.

No one can say no to you if you do these things I just said.

There are several times when I walked into the marketplace and won clients like this from scratch.

Good Luck ✨

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