{
  "id": 548057,
  "title": "How I Doubled My Freelance Income by Targeting the Right Decision-Makers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/how-i-doubled-my-freelance-income-by-targeting-the-right-decision",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-11T08:24:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/soloproemail/how-i-doubled-my-freelance-income-by-targeting-the-right-decision-makers-260f"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "How I Doubled My Freelance Income by Pitching the \"Wrong\" People CTOs are the worst people to pitch if you want to make actual money. For 18 months, I thought I was doing everything right. I built a slick personal website, spent hours polishing my GitHub repositories, and sent 317 hyper-personalized outreach emails to CTOs, Tech Leads, and VPs of Engineering. The result? A grueling average of…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}