Just realized most slow season advice ignores your actual niche | Slow Season Support - Freelance Forum - The Community for Independent Professionals

Kevin Webb · 2026-07-13T14:50:05.719188+00:00

I'm a freelance graphic designer in Austin and kept seeing tips like "cold email 50 people a day" but that doesn't work when my clients are local breweries who hate spam. Spent three months last summer following generic advice and made $0 extra. What specific slow season tricks actually worked for YOUR niche?

brooke4482mo ago

Skip the blanket advice. For my copywriting gigs with small law firms, I just offered to rewrite their website pages for free. Got three clients out of it cause they saw the value. Took a day to do it. Made 6 grand that month.

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the_cameron2mo ago

Wait, Brooke448 actually made 6 grand off free website rewrites? That's insane.

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hunt.hayden2mo ago

Man, my buddy tried that and got crickets for two weeks straight.

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