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Pitching

4 things to ask yourself when your pitch is rejected

It's a number game

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Freelancing With Tim
Oct 13, 2021
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Freelancing is a numbers game. Even the most successful freelancers among us get many more rejections than commissions, and the best ones know that rejection isn’t feedback on its own and to just move on.

But that’s much easier said than done, so let’s talk about exactly what you should do after getting a no.

First: There …

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