
How I got my first clients
I am not going to give you the full story right now, I just wanted to give you an update about where I am up to to hopefully help you.
I set up my social media management company in April of this year and I can now say I am earning a full time living working from home, providing social media services to UK companies.
I have a handful of clients including 2 'big' clients (one car related and one SEO company).
Here is how I got these clients:
I built up experience doing free work for 2/3 clients, I ended up getting a small amount of $ for 1 of these.
I met 1 client through interacting on Twitter, got some regular work before meeting, now met and am in talks about possibly significant further work (lead generation site)
I met one local company at a business breakfast networking event. Now doing regular work for them inc. local seo & social media. They also have an ecommerce site they want help with.
Car related. I know the guy who does their seo, he got me a meeting and I got the work there and then. This company turns over $10s of millions per year.
SEO company. I applied for some work through a job site and they have given me much more than I originally applied for!
I know a guy who owns a marketing firm and they have a big (multinational) client who wanted to use social media. I did a campaign for them and it is possible I will be doing ongoing work.
I hope this helps others who are trying to get their efforts off the ground.
I have only just got a decent looking website so I should hopefully be able to get clients more easily now too

Any questions, just holler.
Joe
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