When I began writing full-time, I assumed I needed to ship a whole lot of job purposes to land freelance shoppers.
The reality is you don’t.
Whereas I’ve gone down this route up to now (with success), I’m studying that almost all enterprise doesn’t occur like this.
It occurs in your DMs.
Better of all? You don’t should be “salesy” to shut new shoppers once they method you.
So earlier than I share an motion plan that can assist you shut shoppers on LinkedIn, listed below are two examples.
A few weeks in the past, a businesswoman slid into my DMs:
“I noticed our frequent connection Tim left you an excellent evaluation.”
She’s referring to a LinkedIn testimonial that Tim Denning wrote for me.
Tim and I’ve been fortunately working collectively for the previous seven months. Right here’s the story of how I landed him as a shopper.
Within the story, I clarify why I provided my search engine marketing companies to Tim without cost:
“A testimonial from Tim is way extra useful to me in the long run than a number of thousand {dollars}. Why? I can put the testimonial on my web site and inform folks I’ve labored with one of many world’s most profitable writers.”
My guess seems to be paying off.
When this girl approached me, I replied again 9 minutes later.
Notice: You don’t have to reply to messages this rapidly. I simply occurred to be on LinkedIn after I obtained her…