How to Close New Clients in Your LinkedIn DMs (Without Being “Salesy”)
It’s easier than you think
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8 min readApr 3, 2024
When I started writing full-time, I thought I had to send hundreds of job applications to land freelance clients.
The truth is you don’t.
While I’ve gone down this route in the past (with success), I’m learning that most business doesn’t happen like this.
It happens in your DMs.
Best of all? You don’t have to be “salesy” to close new clients when they approach you.
So before I share an action plan to help you close clients on LinkedIn, here are two examples.
Example #1: “I saw our common connection Tim left you a great review.”
A couple of weeks ago, a businesswoman slid into my DMs:
“I saw our common connection Tim left you a great review.”
She’s referring to a LinkedIn testimonial that Tim Denning wrote for me.
