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Take your marketing skills to the next level with our comprehensive marketing tutorials. Learn how to market your business more effectively and gain more customers.

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    1. How to Get Clients to Come to You

      How to Get Clients to Come to You

      Tutorial Beginner

      What do you hate most about freelancing? I expect right up there will be either sales or not having enough work. Cold-calling, pitching, struggling to pay...

    2. Essential Steps to Submitting an Article to a Magazine

      Essential Steps to Submitting an Article to a Magazine

      Tutorial Beginner

      If you're looking to be a freelance writer, your bread and butter will likely be submitting articles to magazines. And while the big names in the business...

    3. How To Promote Your Graphic Design Business, Part Two

      How To Promote Your Graphic Design Business, Part Two

      Tutorial Beginner

      Last week we offered best-practice promotion for all freelance artists. Now let’s examine some ideas for artists who want to go a step further. How can you...

    4. How To Promote Your Graphic Design Business, Part One

      How To Promote Your Graphic Design Business, Part One

      Tutorial Beginner

      There are three rules of thumb for finding work: Target as many contacts as possible by email, phone, and mail. The law of averages suggests you will find...

    5. The Fine Art Of Telephone Prospecting For Freelancers

      The Fine Art Of Telephone Prospecting For Freelancers

      Tutorial Beginner

      For many people, telephone prospecting can be a painful process. You know it’s a necessary activity—without it, your work will sooner or later dry up. This...

    6. The Sexy Art of Writing Headlines That Kill

      The Sexy Art of Writing Headlines That Kill

      Tutorial Beginner

      If you've written for a print publication, you've had the bittersweet experience of submitting a story and having your headline written for you. It's...

    7. How to Get More Referrals

      How to Get More Referrals

      Tutorial Beginner

      Getting a new lead referred to you by a previous client or friend is probably the single best source of work for most freelancers. In this article we're...

    8. A Complete How-To Guide to Email Marketing for Freelancers

      A Complete How-To Guide to Email Marketing for Freelancers

      Tutorial Beginner

      As a freelancer there are three main purposes for which you are going to use email marketing: Finding Your First Clients, Staying in Touch with existing...