Breaking Freelance #26 - 🧑💻 Send me your website...
Oct 30, 2020 1:21 pm
...or your portfolio / social / LinkedIn. Whatever you have where I can check out your work, what you do and who are.
Before I start - I want to apologise - yesterday's email had a copy/paste error in the last paragraph. I use Grammarly for spellchecking, and when I pasted back to the newsletter, my big fat fingers on a touchpad didn't properly select text to be deleted. I hope you'll find the strength to forgive me somehow and we can move on with the newsletter. 🤣
Ok... Like I said - send me your links. Hit reply and do it.
If you want to be a professional in 2020 and onwards, and you don't have an online presence, don't have a simple www dot YourName dot com website to give to potential clients to find you, see your work and reach you; it's like you don't exist.
"I don't believe in social media"
I heard this from a professional photographer that I've met via a friend, at the time we were planning our wedding and were actively looking for someone to take photos of the thing. I've asked if she can send me a link to her portfolio, she said: "I don't have a website".
-- Ok, why, I asked?
"I don't need it."
-- Ok, then you have an Instagram or 500px or something? That's cool, send me that...
"No, I don't. I don't believe in social media".
-- Ok, then, how am I supposed to see your previous work?
"There's a cafe/bar at the [opposite side of the city] where they put up a couple of my photos on their wall, to showcase my art..."
🤣 🤣 At that point, I just lost my poker face. You're a professional, unemployed, photographer with no online presence that wants prospective customers to come to a random bar somewhere in the city to see your work? 🤣 Ok... Cool... That's not going to happen.
I want to tell you the same thing I said to her.
You need a website. Show or write about what you did. It doesn't have to be a lot, nor extra fancy. It just has to be yours. Add testimonials from people that you've worked for before because it makes you look credible. Add exact contact details, so you're easy to reach.
And that's enough to get you started, so next time someone asks you "where can I see your work", instead of telling them "I'll send you a link to my dropbox," or whatever, you tell them "It's my LastName dot com."
You want a website, but don't know how? That's no problem. Let me know, and I'll send you a few links to get you started.
Now, send me your links! Anything you have.
Cheers,
T.
Tom Kozacinski, sir Freelance-a-lot 🙃
www.kozacinski.com (see, just like this) :))
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