One of smoothest people around was a securities investment adviser in Santa Barbara. He got hundreds of people to invest with him because hundreds of people had already invested with him. None of them did level of homework they should have. The few people, who did do independent research, smelled a rat and didn't invest. Many of his investors have lost their whole life's savings; rest just lost a lot of money, but will recover. If you think I am trying to scare you, then you are absolutely right. "Money should come in rapidly and be spent very slowly." See "Fraud in Real Estate - part II"

**Write Articles - Write articles about your expertise and submit them to heavily trafficked web sites. Make sure that you are referenced in these articles. Something like this works best:

John Smith Fake Company Expert Web Designer http://www.fake-company.com/ fake-company@server.com

Some web sites won't let you have all of this information written as a signature on article, but they will let you have a summarized version. If not, at least insist on your name and website address being added to article.

**Become an Expert - There is a web site called All Experts (http://www.allexperts.com/) and a lot of similar sites as well. That is a great place to network. This site is a hub where people ask advice of experts. Take advantage of this marketplace where others in your field can ask advice of you. If these people are pleased with your expertise, you might receive future gigs from them.

**Message Boards and Chat Rooms - Message boards and chat rooms attract individuals in need of advice. Take advantage of this. Just make sure not to blatantly market your services. This might infuriate people and you could get flamed or kicked out among other things. The way to network in this situation is to be as helpful and knowledgeable as you possibly can. If you are in a graphic design message board and someone is baffled about how to use layers in Photoshop . explain process. You could maybe mention that you use Photoshop daily when running your design business. THEN at bottom of page use a signature. Find out about signatures below.

**Signatures - Every email that you send out should contain a signature. A signature is at end of your emails and should look something like this .

John Smith Fake Company Providing Professional Brochures at a Discount Price! http://www.fake-company.com/ fake-company@server.com

You never know who will need your professional services, why risk missing out on a potential client?

**Post Your Resume and Profile - Yes, posting your profiles or resume on freelance and full-time job sites is a perfect way to network. We have a listing of freelance sites here. Listing your profile with Allfreelancework.com is where you should begin, of course. :-)

**Reciprocal Link - If you have a web site, ask for a reciprocal link from others in your profession or similar professions. For example, if you are a graphic designer, ask for reciprocal links from fellow graphic designers, illustrators, photographers, etc. I get more traffic to All Freelance from reciprocal links than I do from search engines.

**Introduce Yourself - Search and find other professional's websites and email them. Introduce yourself and your services to them. Let them know that you are available for work if they ever need to outsource. Ask questions. How long have you been freelancing? Where do you find clients? What is your specialty? Would they want extra work you have in future? Etc.

**Place your site in directories and search engines - It is good to get your name out in searchable directories . this is much more preferable than to search engines that don't really pick up any good matches. I recommend going to following web sites to get listed

*http://www.dmoz.org/ *http://www.looksmart.com/ *http://www.mamma.com/ *http://www.yahoo.com/ *http://www.selfpromotion.com/ *http://www.overture.com/ (a pay-per-click search engine) *http://www.kanoodle.com/ (a pay-per-click search engine)

For a listing of search engines to get listed in go to:

*http://www.searchiq.com/ *http://www.beaucoup.com/ *http://www.searchenginewatch.com/ *http://www.siteowner.com/dgdefault.cfm

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