Secret Number 2 - Interaction

Goto your website. Just look at it. Go through a few pages. Imagine that you had hit 'Print' on each of those pages. Would experience of reading pages in hardcopy be exactly same as reading them on screen? If it would you don't own a website - you own an expensive brochure. Interaction is why internet was born - it is one attribute and opportunity that sets medium apart from print and anything else. Your website needs to be littered with things that enable interaction between you and your visitors. Feedback forms, downloads, bookmarking tools, contact options, newsletters etc.

Information and interaction - together these are only things that matter when it comes to internet. Now go back, look at your site and appraise it honestly in terms of how well it addresses each of two facets. Is it full of interactive features that enable people to get closer to your business and control their browsing experience? Does it provide lots of valuable information that is easy to find? Armed with these two secrets you can start to truly harness real power of internet. Good luck!

Michael Cheney Sales & Marketing Director, magnet4web.com (c)

Another plus is that other designers may get in contact with you. Then you become part of a network, a miniature community that helps each other with ideas, access to jobs, and constructive criticism to help you improve your skills. Of course this is true with just about all industries today, example of a graphic designer is only a good one because their work is often hard to duplicate. This means that normally they can only see one employer at a time. On Internet you can get a list of all graphic design companies with your search engine (Eg: Google), and send them all your web site address at once.

Having your personal portfolio on Web will definitely save you a lot of money that would have otherwise gone to transportation and telephone costs. If you’re already an established designer, architect, or freelance writer you can exhibit your work and receive briefs on future jobs without ever leaving your office. Designers can send drafts of work on PDF files, which are then read and directly commented on using Acrobat reader. What a time saver in creative process!

However, for those who are still convinced of old fashioned need for a business card, what would be more simple and straightforward than a card with just your name and one link to your web site. As long as you’re keeping yourself in ‘sight’ of industry executives, better chance you’ll be in their minds when it comes to making a choice for job.

By Jesse S. Somer M6.Net http://www.m6.net Jesse S. Somer is an average person working to show other normal people massive possibilities that integrating Internet into our lives can offer humanity.