Use this guide if you have just started freelancing or offering a service and have few or no paying clients yet. You need a list of your skills and past work, a professional email address and access to a phone and the online platforms your clients use.
Step by step
Write a one-sentence offer
Describe who you help, with what, and the result, for example: 'I help small cafés in Oxfordshire keep their websites and menus up to date so customers can find them.' A narrow offer is easier to remember and recommend than 'I do design'. Test it by saying it out loud to a friend and asking them to repeat it back.
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