How different do you think your freelance business could look by the end of this month?

I’ll tell you from personal experience that 4 weeks can change the game for you as freelancer, which is why, if you’re interested in really building your freelance career, you’ll jump on board our first monthly challenge.

Each week, we’re going to focus on a different element of building up one of our six pillars. You’ll be getting an email every Sunday evening so you can use the week to work through reading, action items, and other tasks as we go.

Ready to get started? Great!

Since this is Keeping Clients Happy month, this month’s challenge is going to focus on digging up past contacts, ranking them, and circling back around to see if they need additional work. If you don’t have any clients, don’t worry! Work along with us with hypothetical clients (feel free to even use real companies you’d like to freelance for) to start developing some good freelance habits.

So this week, we’re going to be putting together a client roster.

If you don’t already, start keeping a spreadsheet or list of every client you’ve ever worked for. I’ve shared the Client Profile Spreadsheet I use here, but feel free to create whatever works for you. Remember--get them ALL on there, even the ones you couldn’t stand working with or who didn’t turn out well. Later on we’ll be ranking them, but for now, just get them together in one place.

That’s all for this week, as always, if you’ve got any questions, feel free to shoot them over. Have a great Sunday!