The phenomenal freelance client is not extinct.

In fact, finding high-paying clients who will pay for your services, without flinching, is challenging at first, but doable.

Learn 4 tips from a member of the freelance tribe who no longer feeds from the scraps falling from the freelance table of poorly paying clients.

You deserve phenomenal clients who value your services and will pay your freelance rates, without hesitation.

Here’s how to make that seemingly impossible dream a reality.

Build expertise in a specific freelance writing niche

Build your freelance services around the special needs of your demographic. Dream of products and services that will help solve their most irritating problems.

Clients are more willing to pay for a freelancer who can speak to the specific needs of one special niche rather than a generalist who is perceived to know a little of everything. Think riches in niches.

Aim to keep your clients happy

Create value. Strive to be the freelancer that they cannot live without and watch your freelance rates increase exponentially.

• Serve your clients best by investing in your own phenomenal marketing and presentation tools.
• Design tools that help your clients save money or make more money.
• Be on time and prepared for meetings.
• Go over and beyond your client’s expectations.
• Help them achieve their business goals.
• Justify your high freelance rates with white-glove luxury service.

Create a simple no B.S. client service process

3 steps to happiness; that’s all you need to satisfy your clients. If Netflix can provide a service that serves millions of satisfied customers in 3 steps, so can you. Here is my 3-step client service example:

Phenomenal Client Service – Step 1)

• Give a free 15-minute consultation to assess client’s needs. If you decide to retain this client, quote your freelance prices.
• Sign your one-page contract.
• Obtain down payment of services and set expectations for 1^st review of work.

Phenomenal Client Service – Step 2)

• Present freelance work for review.
• Make updates.
• Provide follow-up email to obtain final payment.

Phenomenal Client Service – Step 3)

• Send your new client a thank-you note.
• Ask for a customer testimonial concerning your service.

Be phenomenal

Take responsibility for your own pursuit of freelance financial freedom. Stand high above the crowd of mediocrity. Be extraordinary and you’ll have to hire more employees to serve all of the wonderful clients who will want to work with you.

You too can find phenomenal clients that will pay on time and remain loyal to your services. As much as freelancers complain about terrible clients, we must look within ourselves for the true source of missed income opportunities. If we attract bad, non-paying clients we must determine whether we are asking the right questions and are fully prepared to run a business.

Dearest freelancer, there is hope for you and your freelance operation. Follow my best freelance client selection tips and free yourself from low wages and temperamental clients, before your freelance writing business faces extinction.

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