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I’m a $200/hr freelancer. Here's how I find clients

I don't have a blog. I'm not popular on social networks - I barely use any. I don't contribute to open-source much. I have no famous friends introducing me all over the place. Oh, and my clients are not really interested in recommending me to other clients because they want as much of my time as they can get. At the end of the day, I'm a total introvert, and I'm not good at sales. I had a hard time finding clients... until 2020. You know, the pandemic, the whole world struggling with financial problems, investors holding the money, businesses are starving... and I'm suddenly thriving the way I never did before.

How so? I've put together a notification system that monitors jobs all over the most popular freelance and hiring platforms. It informs me when someone posts a relevant job request. I filter all the incoming info to get those very rare, most relevant, and most lucrative jobs that I want. So the whole thing ends up sending 2-5 emails with job details. When I see something extremely relevant - I contact the person. I'm always getting a response. Because, you know, I'm the best suiting candidate who sends a personalized message among the first ones, not a random bozo sending the same message template to everyone.

So, I think maybe someone else could find this useful? I'm building a SaaS where you can create a filter and start receiving the most relevant job requests right to your inbox. I'm looking for early testers. If you want to get some, shoot me an email to [redacted] with the subject "job notifications." Pls, describe your case in your own words:

- which platforms you want to get notifications from

- what is the hourly rate (or fixed price) range

- what kinds of filtering you think would get you those most relevant jobs

22 points _wqlz 5 years ago 16 comments

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