If you are a new freelancer or a new business, at the beginning of your start-up point where you don’t have any client base yet. Don’t tremble!

Your soon-to-be clients may already be around you. Come on out, recognize them and let’s reach out to them.

• Family/ Relatives/ Friends
  Naturally, our closest circle of people tends to get the latest update about us. Let it be a small talk with your mom or your distant uncle on the phone, or a family gathering, or hanging out with friends at a coffee shop; the news about your new gig will soon spill out and spread fast.

• Former Employees/ Colleagues
  Remember what your dad told you about “being nice to people and don’t burn bridges”? Now, this is the moment you can reap what you have sown. Make a quick visits or simply dropping by to say hi, and I guarantee you the conversation will automatically revolves around what’s new.

• Join An Organization/ Professional Clubs
  Becoming a member of a professional association will only do you good. You’ll be immersed with great network contacts of people in the same industry and you will get many tips and advices to grow. There may also a chance of another member asking you to team up to tackle a bigger project.

• Local Businesses
  Your loyalty to a certain restaurants, car repairers, donut shops, and others, may bring you additional rewards on top of those special treatments as a regular customer. When you talk to them, you will be viewed as their customer instead of a cold solicitor and this certainly put a feet on the door for your quick announcement.

• Social Networks
  The name itself explains the purpose well. Utilizing these social sites with the right mindset and strategy, you can expand your contacts beyond your local boundary faster than your traditional physical socializing events. The greatest thing about this is that your profile do the work and you are 24 hours non-stop socializing with others around the globe even when you are not online.

• Search Engines
  In the olden age, you might have been collecting Yellow Pages from other states for soliciting. Now you can have the efficiency and the power of several search engines, like Google, Yahoo and MSN to search local businesses, out of state businesses or even out of the country businesses.

Keep in mind that your task is just to let them know about your new business. Clear and simple without any sales pitch. It’s easy to be so over-passionate talking about your business and intimidate your prospects.

Let your work speaks for itself. Give them your business card so they know how to contact you when they need it. Having a website is certainly gives you extra points; they can review your work online and it makes follow up easier because you have a reference material to point virtually.

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