Finding Work

Learn where to find freelance work, from job boards and agencies to direct client outreach. These articles guide you through pitching, negotiating, and securing projects that match your expertise.

"Cold Calling" Sourcing Potential Freelance Clients

Cold calling is a sales technique that involves sourcing potential work clients, calling them in the first instance and selling goods or services. In the pas...

Approaching Freelance Markets

Freelance work depends upon finding and sustaining viable markets. Without these markets, which you can also think of as your clients, you’ll have no work...

Finding Freelance Work with a Local Business

Working with a local business has many benefits for freelance workers. Freelancers may decide to recruit local business owners as clients, or to offer specia...

Freelance Workers and International Markets

Today’s freelance workers can do jobs for clients all over the world. International markets exist for a wide variety of freelance workers, but freelancers...

Freelance Workers and Professional Organisations

Joining professional organisations can have many benefits for freelance workers. Several different types of organisations exist, including professional organ...

Freelance Workers and the Benefits of Networking

There are man benefits of social and professional networking for freelance workers. However, to make the most of networking opportunities and get the most be...

Gaining Work from Client Referrals

Freelance workers depend upon having a certain number of clients in order to keep their businesses going. Some freelance workers may only need one steady cli...

How and Where to Place Freelance Work Ads

Many freelance workers find it useful to place advertisements of their skills and services in order to attract new business. To do this, freelance workers mu...

Overflow Work from Other Freelancers

Accepting overflow work from other freelancers can be a tricky business. Freelancers who are considering taking on overflow work from others should ask to se...

Registering with an Online Freelance Job Site

Savvy freelance workers know that there are often jobs to be found on an online job site. Registering for a variety of these sites may help freelance workers...

Working for Former Employers as a Freelancer

A freelancer’s first client might not be too hard to find – in fact, it may be one of the freelancer’s former employers! This might be because freelanc...