50 Simple Marketing Ideas All Freelancers Can Use

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I never immagined there was this kind of advice avaliable !

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As a freelancer, you have a wide variety of marketing options available to you. Just which ones will bring you the clients you prefer to work with depends — it’s important to make sure that the methods you use allow you to reach the places prospective clients will be.

It’s worth considering a wide variety of options. For that, it’s useful to have a list of options to consult:

Start a blog

Go to Chamber of Commerce events and other local business events

Release products (icons, articles, etc.) that can be used for free with attribution

Hand out business cards

Guest post on blogs relevant to your skills

Attend meetups in your area

Place your brochures with printers, or other relevant businesses

Organize a BarCamp or other unconference

Network online with sites like LinkedIn or Twitter

Share samples of your work online

Respond to press queries on Help A Reporter Out

Sponsor an event

Suggest a story to a reporter or blogger

Offer a coupon

Create a free ebook and post it online

Write a press release describing something special about your business

Offer to speak about your specialty at networking events

Answer questions on LinkedIn Answers, Yahoo Answers and other question sites

Comment on articles and posts

Create package deals

Develop a partnership with a freelancer with a different skillset

Send out a useful newsletter geared towards your clients

Provide a free initial consultation

Join a professional organization

Add yourself to directories, both online and in print

Place promotional items in event and conference gift bags

Run targeted adds

Contribute articles to other companies’ newsletters

Volunteer your services to non-profits

Contact companies that could use your services directly

Attend alumni events for your school

Contact past clients

Attend events for your ideal clients’ industry

Join online forums

Print t-shirts listing your website

Have a giveaway or donate your time as a prize in someone else’s giveaway

Survey companies in your target market about their needs (and then follow up on those needs)

Optimize your website for search engines

Hand out brochures that showcase your projects

Get great testimonials from past clients

Teach a class

Brand yourself as a business

Start a podcast or videocast

Sell your services through affiliates

Work with an agency

Swap ads with other freelancers

Send out a postcard or other mailer

Package your promotional materials or services with other freelancers

Tell happy clients that you’ll give them a referral discount for any new clients they send your way

Celebrate the end of a large project with your client

Many of these options are inexpensive, though not all of them are free. That price tag makes it easier to experiment with your options — so do it! Take some time on a regular basis to try out different marketing techniques and see which ones will work for you — and which ones you can adapt. There are even more options out there than are listed here. If you have a marketing technique not listed here, please add it in the comments.

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I guess this is not the forum for this and yes freelanceswitch is a good blog but not the only one of this kind.

[churchill]

As a freelancer, you have a wide variety of marketing options available to you. Just which ones will bring you the clients you prefer to work with depends

As a customer I suppose these would be the most interesting

Attend meetups in your area

Create package deals

Develop a partnership with a freelancer with a different skillset

Provide a free initial consultation

Swap ads with other freelancers

Send out a postcard or other mailer

Package your promotional materials or services with other freelancers

Tell happy clients that you’ll give them a referral discount for any new clients they send your way

Celebrate the end of a large project with your client

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