Hello fellow freelancer! Welcome to the new freelance resource website - Guerrilla Freelancing. If you're reading this right now you probably fall into one of three categories: Full Time Freelancing - Deep within the trenches of freelancing, you've left behind all back up and have nowhere to go but forward. This is the boat I am in and I personally find it full of excitement (albeit sometimes a bit rocky). I know I am not the only one and I ...
How many portfolios do you have? How do you cater to specific groups of potential clients other than lumping everything together on your own domain? Are these even things that you consider when you begin promoting your work online? I ran into these questions recently when working on a redesign of my portfolio and thought I’d put the list of 10 great places I found that you can promote your designs through - for free. Not only do you get the ...
As a freelancer, you probably do not have the multi-thousand dollar budgets that other corporations have in order to hire a marketing/branding agency to do all of the work for you. The good news is that freelancers do not need it. When you're a guerrilla freelancer, you can get things done - on your own, on a low budget and quite possibly more effectively than the big agencies you'd otherwise be hiring. Branding yourself and/or your business is a great way ...
Marketing on twitter is a great way to gain attention, recognition and business. However, a lot of people are going about it the wrong way. And a lot of people are giving the same recycled advice so I thought I’d drop some of my own thoughts on the subject here since twitter is “all the rage” lately. So below you will find five ways to market yourself, your services and anything else you’d like people to know about through twitter. Auto-DM ...
Keeping track of your website, the amount of inbound links and visitor information can be overwhelming. Hopefully by the end of this article you will find a few good links to check out and ensure that you’re never wondering about your website ever again. With everything from unique visitor count to where your viewers are clicking on your pages, these analytics tools should give you all of the information you need to tweak and realign items on your website to ...
Your marketing should not make the person on the receiving end second guess their decision to buy your product. If that is what happens, you’re marketing isn’t being effective like it should be. A key step in making sure your marketing efforts can work as well as you would like for them to is by making your marketing directly pull at your readers vices. We all have vices and I’m sure some of ours are the same. We all feel ...
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