Every day, no matter how many orders you have to write or what else you have going on, you have to put the fishing poles in the water. What does that mean?
Apply for a job
Send an introduction email to an agency
Put up a post with a special of the week
Drop off some flyers at local businesses
Email that content guru and see if they need help
If you don't put the poles in the water, you'll never get a bite.
You have to have consistent activity to grow your business.
Fish in the big lakes!
If you see a job you don't think you qualify for, apply anyway. Do they only want a native English writer? Write them something with perfect grammar and good conversational English and they may change their minds. Don't have enough experience? Create volunteer content for a non-profit. Link to it and there's your portfolio.
Go fishing! Tell me what poles you are putting in the water today?