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Understanding why clients hire freelancers
To make a living from freelancing, you must choose a service to offer your clients, price it and sell it to them. The obvious place to start thinking about the type of freelance service you will offer, is by asking questions like ‘what do I know, or can I do, that other people would find useful and be willing to pay for?’.
You might look at how other freelancers make money and think that you could do something similar. But as anyone who has started a thriving business before will tell you, the best place to start thinking is not with yourself, but with your clients.
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