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Lesson 3 of 3 · 10 min

Finding clients

Your first clients come from people who already know you — tell everyone what you do.

Personalized outreach beats mass messages: reference their actual problem and your relevant work.

Practice

Draft a 4-sentence outreach message to a fictional local business.

Quiz

+50 pts
1. First clients usually come from…
2. Outreach works when it's…

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