How To Build Up Your Samples for your Portfolio Without Professional Experience

Written by Rachel Goldstein


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**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 onrepparttar article, but they will let you have a summarized version. If not, at least insist on your name and website address being added torepparttar 106141 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 . explainrepparttar 106142 process. You could maybe mention that you use Photoshop daily when running your design business. THEN atrepparttar 106143 bottom ofrepparttar 106144 page use a signature. Find out about signatures below.

**Signatures - Every email that you send out should contain a signature. A signature is atrepparttar 106145 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 onrepparttar 106146 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 inrepparttar 106147 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 torepparttar 106148 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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4 Tips For The Successful Businessman

Written by Joop Liefaard


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3. Enough is enough When Bald Eagles catch prey, they will catch only one fish at a time. It is not possible for them to catch more. But they know precisely how to catch this one fish. Their flying skills, their strong talons and their eyesight are extremely well developed and fit forrepparttar job. Almost every attempt to catch a prey is successful. This phenomenom also holds a wise lesson forrepparttar 106140 businessman. He has to restrict himself to a number of products he can handle and products that matches his skills and abilities. To stay inrepparttar 106141 animal world: if you are a cow don't try to jump fences like a horse. People will only laugh at you. It is better to sell one product very well than ten without a satisfying result. 4. Courage Bald eagles mate for life and they are absolutely loyal to each other. From high altitudesrepparttar 106142 two birds tumble down in a dangerous free fall. Mockingrepparttar 106143 laws of gravity they unite. Only just aboverepparttar 106144 tree tops they separate and fly wing by wing torepparttar 106145 nest. This spectacular show requires great courage. A businessman also needs courage to be successful. He has to make decisions about difficult and uncertain subjects. And he also needs to know when to stop his free fall. Having courage to make difficult decisions is not synonymous for being reckless. A decision that leads to disaster is not a decision, but a wild guess. You see....the businessman can learn a great deal from this majestic bird that embodies not only beauty, strength and freedom but that possesses alsorepparttar 106146 essential conditions and abilities to survive. The beginning businessman as well, who is maybe starting his business in great uncertainty aboutrepparttar 106147 future, can learn fromrepparttar 106148 bald eagle: Flying high starts with spreading your wings!

Joop Liefaard is Human Resources Manager and started an online business in 2002. He applies his experience and knowledge about organizing businesses in his new online one and found striking similarities and agreeable differences. Joop invites you to take a look at his web site, www.eagleye.info, where you can find information about three successful programs and where you also can subscribe to his weekly newsletter.


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