Five Simple Steps To Creating Your Online Freelance Portfolio

Your Startup Can Compete With The Biggest Industry Players-Chispa MagazineWhen you decide to go freelance, or even when you start to seriously consider it as an option, there are a lot of things that you need to think about. Aside from the official steps of becoming self-employed and setting up your own business, you also have your customers to think about. Sometimes, you’ll have a bunch of clients that are ready to go with you when you first start freelancing. But, sometimes you’re going to need to work up that client list and to do that, you need a killer online portfolio. So, let’s take a look at how you can get one together in just five simple steps.

Decide On A Name
First of all, you’re going to need to set your website up. Now, it is handy to have a site that you can use as your point of contact and your portfolio. So you’re going to want to make sure that it sells your freelance business well. This post https://www.thebalance.com/how-to-choose-a-website-name-1794146 can help with that. If you want to make sure that you choose the right name, come up with a few ideas, or even consider using your own name for the domain name.

Create A Brand
Next, you’re going to want to make sure that you’re able to get the right look for your portfolio. To do that, you may need some help. An expert in web design like https://ignitedigital.com/service/web-design-development should be your go-to. You need to be able to showcase your brand and your image off in the web design. The overall look should be something you’re comfortable with and that works well for your own personal branding.

Get Some Experience
With your online portfolio coming together, you’re then going to want to think about filling it with projects. If you have lots of detail from your previous work, you may want to work with that. If not and you’re completely new to the industry that you’re going to be freelancing in, you need to get some experience. Doing some work for free might work for you here. Then you can get projects together to add into the portfolio section on your site.

Connect Your Social Media
Then you should think about connecting your social media to your site. You can do this in two ways. First of all, you should have links to your social profile from your website. That way, visitors can get a better feel for you and your experience, and follow you on your platforms. But you should also link to your portfolio from your social profiles, as this can be a great way for customers to find you.

Promote + Share Away
Finally, you’re then going to want to make sure that you can shout about your site. For this, you should have SEO included and also make sure that you’re sharing links to your portfolio pages and driving traffic to the site overall on the social channels that you have just connected. As you start to share and promote your portfolio, you may find that you begin to get some inbound business.

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Mia Guerra

Mia Guerra

Executive Editor at Chispa Magazine
Executive Editor at Chispa Magazine, Mia Guerra is a writer at heart. Regardless the topic, she loves to investigate, encourage, and ruminate on topics that can make us better people. Aiming to live a Proverbs 31 life, Mia is ecstatic to be following her calling with Chispa. At home she is her husband's sidekick and together they are raising a God-fearing family in Atlanta.

Mia Guerra

Executive Editor at Chispa Magazine, Mia Guerra is a writer at heart. Regardless the topic, she loves to investigate, encourage, and ruminate on topics that can make us better people. Aiming to live a Proverbs 31 life, Mia is ecstatic to be following her calling with Chispa. At home she is her husband's sidekick and together they are raising a God-fearing family in Atlanta.