04-23-2016, 01:39 PM
Just a tip for getting work, that I realise I have always done, but is a damn good way of getting efficient.
When I am on a searching hunt and find a potential opportunity, I immediately make a draft email to the clients and paste their ad / requirements in the body of the email, then save it. That way I can keep looking, but I know the draft email is all there waiting for me to finish it and that I have already started the process and that I don't have to save bookmarks and links to have to find later. At the end I have a list of drafts in my outbox waiting to be dealt to.
Every time I check my email...the glaring number of drafts stares at me in the face. Although more often than not, at the end of the session, or even right away, I actually complete the email and send it off without giving myself a chance to think about anything.
Before you know it you have sent a handful of emails out!
On occasion I have left things in draft for months...and then I just send things out anyway...and that has actually landed me jobs, months after the posting!
Hope that helps someone.
When I am on a searching hunt and find a potential opportunity, I immediately make a draft email to the clients and paste their ad / requirements in the body of the email, then save it. That way I can keep looking, but I know the draft email is all there waiting for me to finish it and that I have already started the process and that I don't have to save bookmarks and links to have to find later. At the end I have a list of drafts in my outbox waiting to be dealt to.
Every time I check my email...the glaring number of drafts stares at me in the face. Although more often than not, at the end of the session, or even right away, I actually complete the email and send it off without giving myself a chance to think about anything.
Before you know it you have sent a handful of emails out!
On occasion I have left things in draft for months...and then I just send things out anyway...and that has actually landed me jobs, months after the posting!
Hope that helps someone.