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Showerthought: I tried two ways to find clients and one brought in 90% of my work

Honestly, for the first year I just posted on big job boards and sent cold emails, maybe getting one reply for every 50 tries. Ngl, it was brutal. Then I started going to local meetups for small businesses in my city, just showing up and talking to people. After 3 months of that, I had 4 steady clients from those connections. Tbh, the face-to-face thing just works way better when you're starting out. Has anyone else found that local networking beats online applications for freelance work?
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phoenix_jackson52
Funny how a real conversation can do more than a hundred emails, right?
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dixon.iris
dixon.iris1mo ago
Can confirm, shaking hands at the hardware store got me more leads than any online ad ever did.
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lunaf67
lunaf671mo ago
Guess that's why my handshake is stronger than my wifi signal.
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