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Write Bites Episode #46: What To Do When No One Is Responding To Your Pitches


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You’re pitching, you’re pitching, you’re pitching some more…
But you’re not getting any clients.
And you’re starting to feel the pressure.
You’re wondering: what else can I do to land the next (or maybe even first) client as quickly as possible?
If you’ve had trouble getting people to respond to your pitches, you’ll love today’s episode of Write Bites.
I’m going to give you three super practical pitching strategies that (assuming you’re willing to put in the work) will help you accelerate your results.

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What do you do when no one’s responding to your pitches?
This is a super frustrating situation to be in.
And while I would encourage you to keep pitching and assure you that with enough pitches you will ultimately land clients…
At the same time, I want to give you three additional strategies that you can begin implementing right now to increase the speed and increase the chances you have of landing that first client (or even landing that next, really good client) as quickly as possible.
We’re going to be covering three strategies in today’s episode. So let’s dive in.
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You’re pitching, you’re pitching, you’re pitching some more.
You’re not getting any clients and you’re sort of on the clock.
You’re wondering: what else can I do to move this process forward and land that next client as quickly as possible?
I’m about to give you three super practical, super effective strategies that are going to take a little more work than the typical pitching style that I teach. But if you put the work in and use these strategies, you are going to get results very, very quick.
So let’s start with number one, and that is…
#1: Create a Content Asset To Include In Your Pitches
So, what is a content asset?
A content asset is a piece of writing within a niche that you’re targeting. It’s focused on a topic that’s going to matter to a particular niche or industry, and it’s highlighting your writing ability.
So, for example, if you’re a travel writer, you could put together a big guide focusing on travel destinations in a post COVID world or travel destinations as the world is starting to open up, or even something connected to what industries or what business models in the travel space you think are going to really explode as people start to travel, as things open up, something like that.
Basically just tapping into a trending topic. Ideally we’re looking for some data that might be interesting to business owners, to marketers, to the types of people are going to hire writers.
So, for example here, you could look at Google Trends.
You could hop into Google Trends and just type in some different destinations and see what’s been getting the most search traffic over the last six months and use that to sort of inform this “Hey, here’s where everyone’s going to start tra...
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Write Bites: 10 Minute Chats On Writing, Marketing & FreelancingBy Jacob McMillen