By Roadjunky, Posted Oct 23, 2006
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If you’re a freelancer then chances are that increasingly you’re turning to online markets in the first place to get your contracts. Listing sites like craigslist.org and Freelance Work Exchange are capturing more and more of the job market and all that’s needed there is your online presence.
Develop your own website
Sure, many jobs may require a phone call to follow through and confirm the contract but telephone calls are getting cheaper around the world and a GSM phone is a handy part of the freelancer’s traveling work kit.
The other way to draw in work is from an effective personal website and online promotion of your skills. If you can develop your own website well enough then customers will be stumbling across you every day. Your website is your portal to the world and as long as it looks professional then no one’s to know you’re living out of a rucksack, recovering from malaria in a hostel somewhere…
Another way to let people know about your website is to take promotion on the offensive. You can set a budget for adwords so that when someone searches for say, ‘French translation’, they will see your ad at the side of the search results.
You can also maintain a strong presence in forums related to your area of expertise and people searching for your topic may come to take you as an authority and follow the signature link in your posts to your website.
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