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In this video, we'll show you 6 proven ways to get more graphic design clients.
These tips have helped thousands of designers make $5,000, $10,000, or even $25,000 a month as a graphic designer. And they’ll help you too.
• • • VIDEO CHAPTERS • • •
0:00 Introduction
1:01 Your Own Network
1:59 Freelance Job Boards
2:33 Freelance Marketplaces
3:24 Cold Outreach
4:22 Content Marketing
5:02 Your Portfolio
5:42 Conclusion
• • • MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO • • •
Our complete list of freelance design job boards (article):
https://millo.co/freelance-graphic-design-jobs
How to get jobs on Upwork (Video):
https://millo.co/how-to-get-jobs-on-upwork?watch=viAIXWozncQ
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In this video, I'm going to show you 6 proven ways that you can get more graphic design clients
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These tips have helped thousands of designers make $5, $10, or even $25,000 a month
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as a graphic designer. And they'll help you, too. Stay tuned! Hey guys, I'm Josh from Milo.co, where freelancers come to level up their business
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And today, we've got the 6 best ways to find new graphic design clients for your business
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These methods come from working from thousands of freelancers for over a decade
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So, they'll work for you, too. After watching this video, if you want even more help
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make sure to download our free guide, How to Get 10 Freelance Clients in 30 Days or Less
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We'll link to the free download in the description of this video. Alright, clients are the lifeblood of any graphic design business. Without them
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your design business can flounder or fail altogether. But where are the best places
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to actually find new graphic design clients? Here are the places we've seen designers
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find the most success. First, tap into your own network. When you're looking for graphic design clients, tapping into your personal and professional
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network can be a great way to get started. This is particularly true if you're just getting started
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Just making people in your personal and professional networks aware that you're
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offering design services to clients can cause a few opportunities to arise
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Consider posting on social media, particularly LinkedIn, where people are focused more on work
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and may be more willing to hire you. In addition to online outlets, consider reaching out via
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text message or in-person conversations to any connections that you have that can help you spread
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the word. As you tell more and more people that you're starting a graphic design business
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you'll be pleasantly surprised how many people are interested in trying out your services
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Naturally, success from this approach tends to fade over time because your network is only so big
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So you'll want to quickly move to the next opportunities to keep your graphic design
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clients coming. Next, find freelance job boards that meet your needs. Being a designer, you're
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in luck. Along with developers and writers, designers have the highest number of job boards
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and job portals available on the web. For starters, just try Dribbble Jobs, Authentic Jobs
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Behance Jobs, If You Could Jobs, Designjobsboard.com, Creative Paul, AIGA, and lots more
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We've got a complete list of graphic design job boards on our blog, which we'll link in the
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description of this video. We're about halfway through, and if you're finding this video helpful
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please click the subscribe button and leave a comment letting us know what you'd like to learn
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next. In addition to job boards, you can find great new graphic design clients by tapping into freelance
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marketplaces. Some of the most popular freelance marketplaces in the world include Upwork, Fiverr
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or Freelancer.com. Each marketplace has different rules and guidelines, so be sure to review our
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other videos on getting jobs on Upwork, selling gigs on Fiverr, or making money on Freelancer.com
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all of which are linked below. Regardless of the platform, the power of joining a marketplace
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is tapping into the often millions of potential clients the platform provides. Of course, you'll
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have to pay a fee to each marketplace for any revenue you receive, but gaining access to an
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entire world of potential design clients is often worth the cost. Next, never underestimate the power
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of cold outreach. While making dozens of phone calls or sending hundreds of emails only to be
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rejected 90% of the time doesn't sound fun to anyone, you shouldn't underestimate the power of
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cold outreach. This is especially true if your business is in its early stages, and you don't
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have a massive network to tap into yet. Since cold pitching typically has a low success rate
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even when you're good at it, keep in mind it's a total numbers game. You're going to have to send
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a lot of emails, make a lot of phone calls, or send a lot of LinkedIn messages. To increase your
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chances of success, remember to focus on the client's needs, not your own need to get more work
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Use software to supercharge and automate your outreach. We recommend reply.io, and we've linked
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to them below. Follow up regularly with every outreach email you send or call you make. Research
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shows responses increase with more follow-up. One long-term strategy for getting new graphic design
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clients is content marketing. Content marketing can include blogging, podcasting, or posting on social
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media. The idea is to post highly valuable and relevant contents that your clients can find
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This content will ultimately lead them to you as a freelancer. For a quicker path to success, consider
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leveraging other content creators' platforms to get new clients. Contributing guest posts on popular
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blogs, adding value as a guest on popular podcasts, and being actively helpful in popular social media
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groups is a great way to tap into a pre-existing audience without having to build up your own
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Finally, to capture new graphic design clients frequently, you'll want to focus on your portfolio
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Your portfolio can be a powerful place to attract potential graphic design clients
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and get them to hire you. Unfortunately, so many graphic designers are utilizing their portfolio
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all wrong. Instead of using your portfolio website as a place to show off your previous work, consider
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developing it into a way to capture new clients. That means talking less about yourself and more
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about your client, showcasing the results you got for your clients instead of a process that you took
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to get there, making it extremely easy to contact you, and removing any external links or distractions
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that might cause them to leave. And that's it! Six ways that you can get your first or next graphic
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design clients. Leave a comment on this video and tell us which one that you're going to try first
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And remember to subscribe to this channel so that we can keep sending you fresh new ideas to help
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grow your creative business. Until next time, I'm Josh from Millo.co, thanks for watching
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