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You Always Remember Your First
Lessons of Getting Clients as a Freelancer!
Disclaimer: This is not professional advice for getting your first client. Rather this is a narrative of my personal experience and the lessons I learned along the way of 6 years of Freelance work. This is only my opinion and you can select whatever you want to keep or throw away.
In the beginning …
Every person that went into design school, at one point will dream of starting things on their own firm. It seems to be an inclination of the highly creative. Most likely, you will also start off as a solo-act. A freelancer. A jack of all trades. An army of one.
I was in the second year of Architecture school when I decided to take steps towards this. Starting and succeeding as a solo-act, in any business, can be daunting. The first question really, is where do you start? For myself, it was simple: get clients.
The profession I chose is inherently a service industry. At its core, architects provide services in design for the built environment. So the “client” is the lifeblood of any service-oriented business. So, therefore, that list needs to start sooner rather than later.
