Back in April, I had no clients.
Just time, curiosity, and way too many open tabs.
So I started giving free feedback on landing pages I found here and on r/SmallBusiness nothing fancy, just short comments like “your headline doesn’t match your ad” or “your CTA’s buried below the fold.”
One founder DMed me after I gave him a quick breakdown.
We hopped on a call.
A week later, he paid me for a full audit.
That was my first client.
No cold outreach, no paid ads, no funnels. Just being useful in public.
Fast-forward six months we’ve turned that one audit into a small CRO agency that’s now fully booked.
If you’re still in the “trying to get your first client” phase, start by giving away what you know.
The right people will notice.
6 months ago, I was just auditing random landing pages on Reddit. One of those audits turned into our first paying client
byu/Southern_Dare_8090 inEntrepreneur
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That’s a great example of showing up where the right people already hang out. Something that helped me after doing a few free reviews was turning the best ones into short public case notes, just a paragraph on what changed and the result. It builds proof you can share next time someone asks for help so the free work keeps paying off.