How to attract customers the right way?

Question

Freelance

Good evening.
I want to start freelancing intensively so, I would like to learn from others / find out how they attract clients now, especially in the category of beginners (I am a beginner).
As in general now, freelancers usually do, do it for free to clients for a portfolio, or somehow do work for a customer, but at the same time they take the minimum payment, etc., just like not to get caught by people who can throw.

Answer 1

The easiest way is to conscientiously carry out small assignments from the beginning (large projects for a beginner are nonsense in general). Whether it will be work on WorkZilla or somewhere on the international exchange is not so important. Only reputation matters . Doing work for free is, in my opinion, a bad undertaking: we do not live in a world where money means nothing. Whether to take an advance payment - yes. Whoever is not ready to make an advance payment is not ready for the final result (whether it is from you or in general is not the point).
Another question is that for a really small job you can not take an advance payment. But then it is worth focusing on those customers, the cat. have already proven themselves on the resource. Ratingis on any normal exchange. And customers with constant requirements - too. The most banal example is online shopping, cat. you need to fill in catalogs, a small layout, and so on. Large ones cope on their own, medium ones - not always, and small ones - and do often go to outsourcing. About min. payments - price dumping is a good undertaking, but it usually does not lead to anything good . Where service is more important (normal revision, discount for the next job, etc.).
Good luck to you! Freelancing in the crisis market is a good undertaking, by the way. The main thing is to choose the right direction (for example, I do not believe in advertising in a crisis).

Answer 2

How to grab an order from freelance?