Everyone's hurting due to COVID. To help support you we've included some email templates you can send to connect with your clients and reengage your relationships.

Maintaining clients

Email templates and tips for connecting with your past clients during COVID-19

Getting clients

Personal Training Client Intake Form: Free Template and Guide

You need reviews to attract more customers. Learn more about how to ask for client reviews for your freelance business. 

How To Ask For Customer Reviews: The Ultimate Guide

How to Ask Your Client for a Review (With Email Samples)

Grow your freelance business with Indy's marketing course. Learn the skills needed to succeed in the freelance world, including email marketing, networking, and customer retention. Discover tips, strategies, and best practices for marketing your services, building your network, and keeping customers coming back. This course will provide you with the knowledge and tools to develop and execute a successful marketing plan.

Marketing Basics for Freelancers

Winning more business from existing customers is far more efficient and affordable than bringing in new customers. Read this article for tips to get more work.

How to Increase Repeat Sales from Your Existing Customers

How to Increase Repeat Sales: Existing Customers Can Grow Your Business

Feel like you’ve hit a wall and can’t grow your freelance business? Discover the strategies you need to thrive in today’s competitive freelance landscape and start scaling today.

From Rejection to Repeat Clients – This Week’s Must-Read Tips

This course teaches freelancers how to effectively communicate with clients through email and other forms of correspondence, including how to craft persuasive proposals, write effective follow-up emails, and handle difficult client relationships.

Business Correspondence for Freelancers

This course is designed for freelancers looking to improve their financial management skills, including how to negotiate rates, handle partial payments, and simplify invoicing using apps. The course also covers important topics such as cash flow management, project fees vs. hourly rates, and how to ask for a deposit or upfront payment.

Navigating Payment and Finances for Freelancers

Indy's online course for freelancers covers everything from web design to Photoshop, and from setting rates to understanding copyrights. Become a professional graphic designer today.

Freelance Graphic Designer 101

This course offers a comprehensive guide to proposal writing. You will learn how to create compelling executive summaries, write persuasive business proposals, communicate value, and create a sense of urgency. Through a series of lessons, guides, and sessions, you will gain the skills and knowledge necessary to write winning proposals and succeed as a freelancer.

Proposal Writing for Freelancers

This course offers a comprehensive guide to freelance team management. You will learn how to manage effective meetings, understand matrix organization structures, and collaborate with other freelancers. Through a series of lessons, guides, and sessions, you will gain the skills and knowledge necessary to build and manage a successful freelance team.

Team Management for Freelancers

This course will provide an overview of various strategies for leveraging social media to benefit freelance businesses. Students will learn how to build and maintain a client base, connect with customers, and create revenue through partnerships. They will also receive guidance on how to start making the most of social media for their freelance business.

Social Media for Freelancers

How To Write a Business Proposal Email or Letter

Graphic Design Retainer Contract

Digital Marketing Contracts for Freelancers

The Only Marketing Proposal Guide You Need for 2023 (with marketing proposal templates)

Copywriter Contract Template

Digital Marketing Contract Template

Freelance Web Developer Contract Template

Game Developer Contract Template

Influencer Contract Template

Photographer Contract Template

Social Media Moderator Contract Template

Virtual Assistant Contract Template

Accountant Invoice Template

Actor Invoice Template

Advertising Invoice Template

Architecture Invoice Template

Artist Invoice Template

Attorney Invoice Template

Blank Invoice Template

Bookkeeper Invoice Template

Asking for Payment

First Contact

Following Up

Thank You Notes

When Something Is Overdue

Accountant Proposal Template

Advertising Proposal Template 

Architecture Proposal Template

Artist Proposal Template

Brand Ambassador Proposal Template

Business Consulting Proposal Template

Business Development Proposal Template

Business Proposal Template

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Check out these powerful strategies to boost your freelance business and attract more clients. Learn the art of email outreach, find freelance work, and optimize client interactions with these valuable tips and tricks.

Strategies to Get More Clients and Expand Your Business – This Week’s Must-Read Tips

Discover how to make money on Upwork and learn effective strategies to succeed on the platform. Check out how Indy can help you!

Can You Make Money on Upwork? Tips and Strategies to Succeed

Looking to take your freelancing to the next level? Learn how to create a killer Unique Value Proposition (UVP) to win more clients, evaluate the right clients, navigate missed deadlines, and manage a busy schedule. 

How to Unleash the Power of Your Unique Value Proposition (UVP) – This Week’s Must-Read Tips

We’ll show you how to understand their goals, conduct industry research, outline content, design with clarity, use captivating visuals, and prepare for the presentation.

How to Create a Pitch Deck for Your Clients - Everything You Need to Know as a Freelance Graphic Designer

Knowing how to write a meeting request email to schedule a meeting with your client is important and shows professionalism. This article discusses how to do this effectively.

The Ultimate Guide to Writing Professional Meeting Request Emails

How to Write a Meeting Request Email to Your Client/Potential Client

Offering additional freelance services to clients helps you increase revenue and sustain clients for a long time. Discover the tips you need to upsell services like a pro.

5 Best Ways to Offer Additional Services to Clients as a Freelancer

How Do You Offer Additional Services to Clients? 5 Effective Strategies for Upselling

Missed a client’s deadline and need to ask for more time? Read on to learn polite ways to communicate a missed deadline in an email.

Ways to Politely Tell a Client You’ve Missed a Deadline

How Do You Communicate a Missed Deadline to Your Client? (With Email Samples)

Canceling a meeting can be a difficult task, but you can still minimize the fallout. Learn how to do it without upsetting your client. 

Here’s How to Cancel a Meeting Politely

How to Cancel a Meeting Without Upsetting Your Client (With Email Samples)

Asking your client for updates can be tricky. We're going to take a look at some of the best ways to ask your client for an update, politely.

How to Request an Update From Your Client Over Email (With Templates)

What Is the Best Way to Politely Request an Update From Your Client? (With Email Samples)

We discuss all the problem clients you might face when working freelance and give you tips and tricks on how to manage difficult clients.

Stop Working With Problem Clients by Spotting These Red Flags

Types of Clients You Should Avoid When Freelancing

How to Boost Your Business with the Ideal Solopreneur CRM Platform 

Best Ways to Share Photos with Clients

Advantages of Using a Customer Relationship Manager or CRM for Freelancers

As a freelancer it can feel like you have to take every possible job sent your way, but it can be just as big for your business to break up with a client who is too difficult.

How to Break Up with a Difficult Client

Gratitude and appreciation make a difference when it comes to your business, and set you up for future success. How do you say thank you professionally to a client? We’ve put together a few tips to write a strong, sincere business appreciation letter. 

The Art of Gratitude: How to Write Business Thank You Letters [With Examples]

Sometimes freelancer-client relationships just don’t work out. Use these tips and templates for firing a client the right way.

Firing a Client: A Freelancer’s Guide

Building and managing lasting client relationships is incredibly important for freelancers. Click here to learn more about maintaining client relationships that last!

Tips to Develop and Maintain Relationships with Clients

Following up with an email after a meeting builds trust with your clients. Click here for several templates to use for following up after different types of meetings.

Follow Up Email Templates After Meetings

Every once in a while you’ll run into a client who doesn’t like the design you made. What do you do? Check out or tips for navigating that tough situation.

6 Things to Do When a Client Doesn’t Like Your Designs

Do you have a meeting with a client? This blog will help you make great client notes ahead of your next meeting.

Client Relations

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