This week, I wanted to talk about how I got my first client as an freelance email developer.
Started out with a dream…
A few months ago, I started writing Urban Fantasy stories in hopes of self-publishing these stories on Amazon Kindle platform. I did research on getting growing an audience and started learning more and more about email marketing.
I joined several author’s e-mail list, I received several e-mails from the authors and noticed the e-mails use HTML. I realized that when I send I start building my e-mail list, I need to send out exceptional e-mails if I wanted to keep readers on my e-mail list engaged and keep reading my e-mails.
So, I signed up for CodingPhase.com Responsive HTML Email Course.
Taking action counts for a lot…
First, I highly recommend CodingPhase.com. I am not an affiliate of the site, so I won’t make a dime from endorsing this dude and his courses.
I took the CodingPhase course and learned email development. I also fell in love with email development more so than frontend web development. I started becoming obsessed with learning the ins and outs of email development. I started following email developers on Twitter and reading up best practices for email development.
Action meets Preparedness
After taking the course, I could create a decent HTML email through coding. By chance, one of the authors who I was on their email list sent out an email asking for help managing their weekly email newsletter.
I got in contact with the author and showed them some of my sample emails that I coded. The author was impressed and wanted to hire me to manage their email newsletter.
The author has four different pen names. The author sends me the content for each newsletter. I code, test, and send out the emails.
I didn’t know that I would find my passion for email development from wanting to write urban fantasy novels. As weird as it sounds, this is how I became a freelance email developer.
Thanks for reading,
Ivan Hurt
Email Developer
P. S. A special thanks to Joe and CodingPhase.com for starting me on the path to email development.
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