4 Ways Freelancers Can Keep Clients Coming Back for More

You can't keep sending proposals everyday. It will get to a stage that your previous clients will keep coming back for more

Here are four ways to ensure your clients come back:


1. Read and listen carefully
If a client gives you instructions, a style guide, or anything else that tells you how to complete a project—please listen. Take notes.

You’d be surprised by how many freelancers get this wrong.

They’ll submit a piece using their own style, forget to include a headline, or fail to include any reported sources—even though the assignment required them.

Clients are giving you instructions for a reason. If you follow them closely, they’ll want to keep working with you.


2. Request an outline approval step

This piece of advice is simple, but it may be the most important tip I can give.

When you’re working with a client for the or on a particularly large project—propose an outline approval step.

In other words, get feedback on your plan before you leap straight from getting the assignment to submitting a draft.

I cannot tell you how much pain this will save everyone. Plus, it’s just good practice to organize your thoughts.

3. Ask questions, but don’t be helpless

It could be something directly related to the content of an article, in which case, Google and many other sources exist.

Sometimes it’s related to a style question—if your client did not give you a style guide, ask for it and always reference it before coming to them. If it’s a process question, make sure your client didn’t already answer it.

Remember: Whoever you work with deals with headaches on a daily basis. Your job is to not be one of them.

Basically, don’t be that person who hits up a client on a Saturday about whether they italicize names of publications. Always try and figure it out on your own first, and then ask if you think it’s truly material to you being able to complete your side of the bargain.

4. Be gracious
Let the people who pay for your work feel good about it.

Thank them for the opportunity, say you enjoyed working with them, and at the end when a project is about to wrap up, don’t be afraid to try and get another assignment by expressing genuine interest.


If a client enjoyed working with you, more often than not, you’ll get the assignment.

And showing immediate interest after working with them gives them tangible evidence that, yes, you really did enjoy working with them.

Freelancing is as much about producing good work as it is maintaining strong working relationships—so treat it that way.

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