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The “Secret” to Becoming An Expert Freelancer With a Jam-Packed Roster of Clients

Lizzie Davey
7 min readMar 13, 2020

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Spreading ourselves too thin is something us freelancers are guilty of 99.9999% of the time (stat not completely accurate).

We think that by having a finger in every pie we’re more likely to get work because the more people we appeal to the wider we can throw our net.

Freelancers carry out a whole range of services. Source.

I was so guilty of this back in 2014 when I first started freelancing.

At that point my services page was like an extra-long scroll packed full of everything I could ever possibly do for a client.

I’m talking marketing services, social media management, blog post writing, copywriting, brochure writing, and anything that involved words. I didn’t want to back myself into a corner by only offering a few things because I was terrified of turning prospects off.

Don’t Be a “Yes” Person

So for the first two years of my career I did anything and everything.

I was a jack-of-all-trades; the “can-do” gal who would literally do anything for…

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Lizzie Davey
Lizzie Davey

Written by Lizzie Davey

SaaS, Marketing and Ecommerce Writer and Content Consultant. I also help freelancers create long-term, lucrative businesses.

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