So I am a professional web developer and looking to get some contract work (preferably charging clients on monthly or bi-weekly basis) and offer my services.

My main services are landing page, 5 page static websites and MVPs. My rates differ for each of the service, having fixed one time fee for landing page and 5 page static websites, and monthly fee for building MVPs and maintaining them.

I have done work for clients in past that I got referred from friends or colleagues but now I struggle to find more of them.

I was thinking to run ads but I found out running ads would demand a huge budget, and as I am not great at it I’ll better need to hire someone for that as well.

I can start working on my SEO but that will take some time as well, so any suggestion on how to proceed?