The best way is to let clients find YOU instead of the other way around. This is hard but not that hard. Optimal ways in that order: 1. You have an online pres

The best way is to let clients find YOU instead of the other way around. This is hard but not that hard. Optimal ways in that order: 1. You have an online presence (blog, youtube tutorials etc) and you have done quality content (which takes a little time but again not that hard if you focus). You will start getting inbound queries. 2. You cannot figure how or are too lazy to do #1. Your next bet is to join a marketplace where they do the marketing for you (well to an extent). Places like upwork and yes they are nt all a race to the bottom but you may have to start from it (again because you cannot figure out #1 above).You may have to do a few projects for cheap but once you build some reputation, you will start seeing progress. You can increase your rates slowly. And yes, people hire on upwork for $100/Hour as well but you gotta earn that. 3. You apply to jobs and reach out to people on your own. Mostly a crap shoot and the laziest way and hence the least effective way because there is a lot of noise in this step (everyone else is doing this). As a client, I look for youtube tutorials on topics or just do google search. If I find someone that i like, I reach out to them directly. This got me to hire a Go Developer once where I aid him $10K plus for a project. But he writes and writes well. Explains concepts that I cared about. Heck, he even published a book. He didn't need to sell any further.