Mastering Client Follow-Up: Strategies for Freelance DesignersMastering Client Follow-Up: Strategies for Freelance Designers
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What you do after the first call with a potential client is what shows them who you are. If you wait to send a follow-up email, you're basically telling them they're not that important. What you actually do is send it right after the call ends. This shows your client that you're serious and want to start moving. Not in two hours. Not tomorrow. Now. While the conversation is still fresh, you clean up your notes, organise everything that matters - the project goal, the pages, the features, the timeline - and you start putting the proposal together. And in that same email, you suggest a meeting to walk through the proposal together. Don't just send it and hope for the best. A proposal sent cold is easy to ignore. A scheduled conversation is much harder to walk away from. This is one part of the client process I cover in The Solo Designer's Playbook - a step-by-step workflow guide for solo freelance web designers, from the first lead to the final handoff.
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