A few days back, an aspiring freelancer posted on the Freelance Heroes Facebook group asking for advice (it’s a private group, but if you’re already a member then you should be able to see it here). In it, the poster explained that they were still working at a role in-house, but wanted to break into freelancing. “So my question is how did you first get started with getting clients?” I left a comment on it,…
At brightonSEO October 2020 I gave a talk titled Going Solo – The Survival Guide for Freelance SEOs (Present & Future), which gave advice to aspiring, new and longer-term SEO freelancers. I contacted a bunch of wonderful fellow freelancers for their input and their tips to include within the talk itself, but with a total talk time limit of just 20 minutes, I overestimated how much I could cram in. So instead, I’m including their…
When I first started out as a freelancer, I accepted any/every bit of work that came my way. Heck, we’ve all been there. And in my early days, I did a fair bit of work through agencies – so instead of working directly with a client, I’d be working with the agency to help their clients. A few examples (for me) included a few design agencies as well as a PR firm. Over time, I…
