18 Self-Promotion tips for web designers 0
The freelancer’s life is not that simple as it may seem. In fact the freelancer lifestyle came into fashion a couple of years ago. I don’t mean to say they hadn’t existed before that. It’s 2009 and internet technologies are developing in an amazing pace.
More and more competent players emerge, not to mention the up and coming talents who spring forth from the mist of anonymity. So I daresay freelancers have hard times ahead of them. Unfortunately, the cliches that have been being used until now do not fulfil their original role any longer. What’s more, if you take a closer look at the css galleries you will find dozens of freelancer portfolios made on the basis of the same samples.
It’s not easy to stand out of the crowd as it used to be just a few years before, but I am going to try to help you.
Let’s have a look at some of them:
- Try and be really unique
- Find your strengths (e.g. wordpress design)
- Build a brand around you as it's yourself whom you are selling
- Create a one-off portfolio focusing on your strongest skill
- Devote time to permanent SEO
- Draft a carefully-wrought CV in PDF format
- Send your portfolio's address to all of the css galleries
- Find job assignments on the most popular job boards
- Answer all the incoming client emails
- Write quality-posts in your blog
- Set up a Twitter account and follow the best ones in the trade
- Register at LinkedIn
- Promote yourself at popular blogs and forums
- Write comments regularly to the most visited blogs
- Run targeted advertisements
- Join one of the professional organizations of webdesigners
- Undertake jobs with professional agencies
- Don't you ever give it up!
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This is the portfolio blog of Szabolcs Bakos, a freelancer web designer from Hungary. If you are interested, you can find more about the author or you can check his portfolio.