Getting your first client without bidding
Bidding platforms teach habits that make you cheaper. Here is what to build instead, in the order that pays off soonest.
For freelancers
Getting hired, getting paid, and getting the working relationship right, written for the person doing the work.
- For freelancersInvoicing a client in another countryWhat goes on the document, why the numbering matters, and the one thing to settle before the first invoice rather than after it.8 Aug 2026
- For freelancersRecording a video intro that helps youSixty seconds, landscape, recorded in the browser. It is optional, and it is the one thing on a profile that is unmistakably you rather than a description of you.5 Aug 2026
- For freelancersSetting your rate, and raising it laterOne number, in pesos, on a page clients read in dollars. How to pick it, what it is compared against, and the only reliable way to move it up.3 Aug 2026
- For freelancersYour headline is the whole first impressionIt sits under your name on every card, every search result and every page title. Here is what a good one does, and the four words that ruin most of them.1 Aug 2026