Any creative ideas to help increase income for my freelance design business?

[Luckydog7]

Appreciate any advice. I've been running my little ltd company for its first full year and did about as well as I could hope. About 9k from an average working a day or two a week term time only. DD will be starting school in September and so I'd really like increase revenue or find a side hustle that I can do in quiet periods.

I'm a digital artist and most of my work is making 3d model and environments on behalf of other design companies. I have two main clients, one dorment client (did a few projects but has gone quiet) and one potential new one from calling people recently, will follow up this week.

So far all my successful clients have been found by cold calling local companies and offering my services but I am limited somewhat by geography so have only contacted people within 30-40min drive. I'm running out of viable candidates here and this is slightly complicated by my customers technically direct competitors to each other.

I suppose I'm looking for advice about how/who to approach but also other avenues I could go down with my skills so I can offer services to an alternative industry perhaps? I suppose I could offer to go further afield but this would mean upping my prices to cover travel time and I'm deliberately prices at a certain level to be good value to clients ( by costing less then they are charging customers for the design service)

I work in landscaping specifically if that makes any difference.

Oh I should add, I've been thinking about setting up a website but a) I'm wary of being seen to set up in competition with my own clients and b) this will likely result in getting direct customers rather then companies that I would prefer.

Have you tried "fiverr"? You also can build a instragram portfolio and maybe start a youtube channel to talk about your work?

Oh I don't think I'm the type to be online promoting my work like that. I like my clients that do all the customer interaction and leave me to the drawing.

Thanks for reminding me about fiver though, I think I already have a people per hour account which is now very out of date from before I had sorted out pricing or had decent images of my work, that's a good idea!