5. Will This Gig Help Build Your Contact List? - If taking this gig gets you in good with a few other contacts, then taking this job on is probably a good thing. Do your best on this job and soon it will lead to new opportunities. A gig that helps your networking efforts is very worthwhile.

6. Will This Job Lead to Widespread Exposure of My Services? - There are some gigs that don't pay well, but that lead to wide exposure. For example, designing a website that you feel is going to be big some day, or writing a column for a big website. Certain gigs will lead to a great exposure of your talents and will lead to a new influx of clients.

7. Does This Job Interest You? - If you feel this job will bring you great joy and excitement, take job on.

Take a look at all of above considerations. Ideally, a gig will encompass all seven of these considerations, but in reality this rarely happens. If not even one or two of these is true, turn down job. Good Luck.

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4. 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 will need your design services, why risk missing out on a potential client?

5. Post Your Profiles - Yes, posting your profiles on freelance job sites is a perfect way to network. How else better to get your name out in freelance world than placing your name on a freelance site?

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.yahoo.com/

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

*http://www.searchiq.com/ *http://www.beaucoup.com/

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