5 Different Ways I Find Freelance Writing Clients

Keep your schedule booked out without sending hundreds of cold emails!

Meg Stewart
Freelance Ladder

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There’s no doubt about it. Cold emailing simply sucks. It’s time consuming and you often have to send out hundreds of pitches just to get a positive response.

When I first started freelancing, I was a single mom of four and there was no way I had the time to send out that many emails. So I scoured the internet to find a better way.

In fact, other than in the first year I was freelancing, I don’t think I’ve sent out more than ten pitches in a week.

Below are just five of the ways I used early on to find freelance writing clients and keep my schedule booked out weeks in advance.

A targeted Internet search

There is a mega ton of information out there on the Internet. And sometimes an internet search can feel fruitless. It can feel like a waste of time because you get all kind of information you aren’t looking for and you have to sort through it all.

Who has time for that?

But believe it or not with a little knowledge of basic Boolean search operators, you can find a ton of potential clients by doing some internet research. Simply enter “write for us” AND…

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Meg Stewart
Freelance Ladder

Freelance writer & tech coach. Grammi of 10. I use affiliate links. Get Market Mondays free https://app.convertkit.com/creator_profile.