Comments on: Ten (free) ways to get more business

By: Bad Language / Uncle Matthew: How do I go freelance?

Bad Language / Uncle Matthew: How do I go freelance? — Wed, 28 May 2008 08:45:43 +0000

[...] 10 free ways to get more business [...]

By: Solomon

Solomon — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:22:56 +0000

HIi Mathew!
I liked the article. I’m looking out to freelance more than to a regular job. Your article helped me a lot.
Thank you!
Solomon

By: Sonia Simone

Sonia Simone — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:21:40 +0000

This is a great series of tips–much better than the usual “Write articles! Anyone can do it! Write a blog! Anyone can do it!” I will bookmark and study these with care, thank you.

By: Matthew Stibbe

Matthew Stibbe — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 12:42:40 +0000

I may run some more later this year, perhaps on a slightly different topic. Also, I’m thinking of doing a podcast or video cast of the seminar for the blog. Either way, I’ll advertise it here! (Now when am I going to get an invite to the Approvr Beta?)

By: Mat

Mat — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:43:33 +0000

Are you planning to run more seminars? I read the description and they sound great. I am sure that lots of your readers are potential clients and would love to hear you speak in person.

By: The Copywriter’s Vacation Ends; Life Rears its Ugly Head… : The Copywriter Underground

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:23:10 +0000

[...] post? It’s about the ten free marketing tactics you can use every day to win and keep clients. These aren’t the obvious “get business cards and a Web site” [...]

By: Matthew Stibbe

Matthew Stibbe — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:37:25 +0000

I use Outlook Tasks to track immediate actions, like ’send proposal to x’ and Outlook Contacts to keep people’s contact details. However, I use Excel to track potential projects. It’s really simple: contact, company, status (where in the process the thing is) and a note of my next action. I try to purge it regularly – there’s nothing more dispiriting than a lot of moribund pitches in a list.

By: Meryl K. Evans

Meryl K. Evans — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:32:46 +0000

I use a Palm PDA and Palm Desktop to track all my contacts and to dos. But I’ve wondered how having a little more CRM-based (CRM-lite — I like that) solution would help or if it would just overwhelm me. I’m a very organized person — which can be a problem, too, when I can’t find a system that works or face too much information to begin organizing.

By: beth

beth — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:22:56 +0000

I love the picture accompanying this haha.

By: James

James — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:58:49 +0000

Do you know of any good examples for keeping an Excel file to follow up with clients? I’m sure I could just list people’s names out, but I’d love to see some of the other items that might be good to keep track of. Thanks!