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Ace the Freelancing Race:How to Spell
Market Yourself
• Build Microsites
• Create Freebies
• Purchase business cards
• Four Effective Marketing Secrets
Plan Your Work, and Work Your Plan
• Monitor how much time you spend in distraction websites
• Limit your time on these websites
• Decide that this day will be productive
• Plan your day ahead
• Play it safe; give time allowances
Build a portfolio
• 10 Steps to the Perfect Portfolio Website
• Building a Great Web Design Portfolio – 10 Best
Tips & 40 Examples
Blog
• You get to impart your knowledge to others
• It can serve as a source of extra income
• Blogging will relieve you from stress
• It will make you noticed
Tweet, Post, Recommend
• Use separate accounts for business and personal use
• Never complain using your business accounts
• Stay in touch with your past clients
• Show the passion on your work
• Be responsible
Look and Be Professional
• Dress accordingly
• Be on time with meetings
• Write emails professionally
• Be mature in making decisions
• Speak with finesse and intellect
Find Inspiration Everywhere
• Subscribe to blogs
• Give yourself a ‘thinking time’
• Look at other freelancers’ portfolios
• Go to art museums, concerts, read a book