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Lots of healthy facts but should have more tips on freelancing.

Marketing is really important especially for new business. Approach as many prospects as you can via cold calling, emailing and build relationships with people.

You can surely go for Social media marketing and distribute your business card to as many people as you can. You can also try offline affiliate marketing, establish relationships with people and give commissions to them for their referrals. This work well and people keep sending you the clients for the money.

If you are a freelancer and work at night then it doesn't mean that your clients should call you at night. Isn't it? Clients like to call or email during normal working hours and expect replies within that time. Moreover, its also good for your health to work at a particular schedule and have fixed time for meals and work. This way you will learn self discipline and in future too you won't have any problem running a web design company of your own because you work on fixed hours. You can relax, take few breaks or even entertain yourself because you are the boss but I would suggest you to have a fixed schedule.

It all about outsourcing your work to the right person. Check out their portfolio before outsourcing and take proper interview too.

SEO is a long term strategy and PPC is for instant traffic and clients. First year is really crucial for any business and one should not rely totally on SEO that may generate traffic after 3-4 months. You can start with PPC and then slowly switch to SEO. Another thing, SEO is not very reliable. Search engine rankings keep changing.

You have already few clients and you should try referral marketing. It is really a good way to get new clients. You can ask for few referrals from each client and keep asking about referrals to whom you met. Another way, You can promote your services via Facebook. It also works especially for local businesses.

You need to learn about email marketing. Visit : http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/ and know more about it.

Twitter is the best way to get huge traffic to your website. Keep posting useful tweets and follow 100 people daily. This will increase your followers and send you hundreds of unique visitors to your website.

You can use PPC for promoting your business. Its a great way to get new clients quickly. You can target your marketing campaign based on a geographical area, time and much more. It is really very flexible and powerful way of promotion.