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If you're a freelancer or independent, you're running a one-person business.
You need a marketing strategy too.
Your time is split between doing the work and finding the next client. Posting more won't always solve the problem. Sometimes your offer needs to be clearer, your work needs stronger proof, or it needs to be easier for someone to enquire.
i made a free 34-minute guide to help you work out what deserves your next ten marketing hours.
It covers your offer, content, ads and the route to an enquiry, with a decision tree to help you choose what to fix first.
Here's the trailer. Watch the full guide on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/xM7G509bsrk
Thanks for this. A guideline always helps a new contra user like me.
as a new contra user - focus first on your profile + casestudies
Ok. Thanks for the input.
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