Social media: time suck or secret weapon?

Use these platforms to find paying jobs

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Diana Kelly Levey
March 30, 2025

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Some days I love social media and the silliness, humor, and kindness it offers. Other days, it’s a dumpster fire that makes me want to throw my phone across the room. Sometimes, it’s a mix of both.

And while I try to put guardrails on my time on social media and curate my feeds with positive accounts, I recognize I need to be on social media for work.

To find freelance jobs.

To connect with managers, editors, and brands.

To stay on top of trends.


Love it or hate it, you can actually use social media to find freelance clients.

And you can carve out scheduled times each day to make it happen.

This blog breaks down ways to use social media to build your freelance business in a super simple way. (And no, you don’t have to “build a personal brand” on seven different platforms.)

Here’s what’s addressed in the blog.

✨ How to actually get freelance writing work from LinkedIn (without feeling like a weirdo)
✨ Where to find client-filled Facebook groups that aren’t spammy
✨ Why posting a selfie with your dog on Instagram can help your business. (People love behind-the-scenes.)
✨ What the heck Bluesky is, if you should try it, and why tech and design clients hang out there

In general, my social media strategy is to be active on a few platforms, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and X/Twitter.

It’s one tool in my toolkit, in addition to writing blogs, following up, reading industry news, and more freelance marketing strategies that make up my business plan.

Read the blog on how to use social media to find freelance work and grow your business.

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Diana

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