Mad Babble & Lucid Thought » job http://www.madbabble.com Mad Babble & Lucid Thought Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:06:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 How to promote yourself? http://www.madbabble.com/how-to-promote-yourself.html http://www.madbabble.com/how-to-promote-yourself.html#comments Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:37:32 +0000 Sven http://www.madbabble.com/2007/09/26/how-to-promote-yourself/ Self-promotion is always the key to your freelance career. It takes a lot of effort on your end to promote yourself and get the kind of freelance job you always wanted. You do your freelancing job mainly because you want to own your time, be your own boss while you still get to enjoy your work. Freelancing is all about self-promotion and succeeding in closing a great deal with clients. But how do you go about promoting yourself?

Portfolio is the answer to your question. Just like creating a powerful resume or CV, your portfolio should offer your best qualification to the client. Fortunately, those who are deeply engaged in freelance online careers have the chance to make use of the online portfolio-maker. These pre-programmed portfolio builder are good for a starter. But if you think that you have more than what the portfolio-builder has, have the liberty to create a powerful portfolio.

Don’t forget to include the following details:

  • Academic competencies
  • Skills and talents in achieving 100% success in projects
  • Experience in similar jobs
  • Specific expertise that clients would love to know
  • Sample works are critically important

Remember, your portfolio carries your future freelance career. Make it one of your obra maestra, create a powerful portfolio and sell your service effectively.

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Here are a few things you must think over and make clear before starting any project, so that your efforts do not go waste.

  • If the client is unsure of the budget, you should get alarmed. This only shows that he is not serious about the payment part of it.
  • If the client is not ready to disclose the budget to you. This purely shows that either the budget is too low or he doesn’t have confidence in you. In both cases, you may get into trouble.
  • If he keeps saying that, he wants the job to be done at the cheapest price, without discussing it properly with you. This is an indication that he doesn’t value your work and efforts but is looking for an inferior quality job done for the lowest price possible.
  • The client is very difficult to contact, or doesn’t respond properly.
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