Your guide to work as a Freelance designer

Isn’t the dream of everyone of us to live as a free soul? Work when you want, have time to develop yourself an your skills, choose your clients and most of all make big profit.

All these points leads to one road…Freelancing. As freelancing is becoming more and more important for a lot of independent designers nowadays, we though to share with our readers some of the experience and the information we’ve got trying to produce a clear vision of which steps to take and how to get the best out of it.

First step you have to take to reach your target is to make an impressive online portfolio collecting different styles, techniques and design categories. This will lead to good exposure and will help you to show your skills on a wide range. as big as your portfolio gets this mean that your an experienced designer. Sure when you are making this you have to collect the best of your work.. there’s no place for amateur work or trials.

The most important thing is to have your clear contact details listed so you make it easier for the client to reach you. Many people tend to make their portfolios websites themselves which is a good thing but you have to put in mind how will the clients and project owners reach you.

So the best is to make both personal portfolio website showing your identity and skills and Join a Design community that allows you to make a portfolio within their pages this will grant you fast indexing for your work within the search engines, better exposure, Comments of other designers to your work which may help you to notice some stuff that u didn’t and revise your work again, and best of all that most of the big clients are searching within the pages of those well known communities for hiring Designers.

There’s a lot of these Communities and art networks but we think that the best of all those communities that u can make your portfolio either for free or for a small fee that is totally worth it are those4 websites:

1.Deviant Art

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2.Krop

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3.Behance Network

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4.My Folio

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When it comes to freelancing, one of the biggest challenges can be finding work. Even the most successful of freelancers will experience a lean month here and there, so it pays to have as many sources of potential work as possible. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of job sites from around the net.

Elance

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Guru

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Freelance Switch

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Programmer Meet Designer

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Fresh Web Jobs

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Rent A Coder

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Go Freelance

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Lime Exchange

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Get a Freelancer

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Krop

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Get a coder

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All Freelance

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Coroflot

Hope to find this list useful and helpfull to put you on the track.

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