How to get your first writing client

Stop preparing. Start contacting.

Almost everyone who fails at freelancing fails during the preparation phase. They build a site, buy a domain, redesign a logo, and never send the email.

The ten-email method

1. List ten businesses you genuinely find interesting.
2. Read their content properly.
3. Write one specific observation about it.
4. Offer one concrete piece of work with a price.
5. Send it. Follow up once, seven days later.

Specific beats polished. Every time.

The first client is a numbers problem disguised as a confidence problem.