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Cultivating Your Client List

Most freelancers will tell you they get their clients by word of mouth. But the savviest freelancers know harvesting clients is the fastest route to success. At this meeting, we’ll discuss strategies for building a bountiful client list, weeding out the deadbeats, and distinguishing yourself in the marketplace. Whether you’re thinking about forging a freelance career or you've already taken a leap, Michelle will show you how a little planning and chutzpah can go a long way toward growing and improving your client list.

Michelle Goodman

Michelle Goodman is the author of The Anti 9-to-5 Guide: Practical Career Advice for Women Who Think Outside the Cube (Seal Press, 2007). She has worked as a freelance writer and editor for 15 years, with the occasional Microsoft contract thrown in for good measure. Her reported pieces about alternative careers, human mating rituals, and popular culture have appeared in Salon, Bust, Bitch, Bark, the Seattle Times, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Her essays have been anthologized in Single State of the Union: Single Women Speak Out on Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Happiness and The Moment of Truth: Women’s Funniest Romantic Catastrophes. In 2006 she was a writer-in-residence at Hedgebrook, a women’s writing retreat on Whidbey Island. To keep a roof over her head, Michelle wrangles print and online text for high-tech empires, book publishers, and peddlers of new-age philosophy. She regularly blogs at www.anti9to5guide.com.

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