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PORTFOLIO SERIES - HOW TO PUBLISH AND MARKET YOUR ONLINE AND OFFLINE PORTFOLIO First article in a series of many that will show you how to properly plan, layout, and market your portfolio.

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PORTFOLIO SERIES - HOW TO BUILD UP YOUR SAMPLES WITHOUT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (article 2) If you are in a situation where you don't have any professional samples to place into your portfolio, then you obviously have a lot of work to do.

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PORTFOLIO SERIES - GATHER ALL OF YOUR PORTFOLIO SAMPLES TOGETHER (article 3) - Now it is time to put it all together. So how are you going to choose which samples to place in your portfolio?

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PORTFOLIO SERIES - SHOP SMART FOR A PORTFOLIO CASE (article 4) Fourth article in the portfolio series. Find out how to shop smart for a portfolio case.

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PORTFOLIO SERIES - PHOTOGRAPHING YOUR WORK ... MAKING SLIDES (article 5) Fifth article in the portfolio series. Find out how to photograph your samples for slides and your portfolio.

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PORTFOLIO SERIES - HOW TO PREPARE YOUR PORTFOLIO FOR DROP-OFF OR SHIPPING (article 6) Sixth article in series. Many employers will not have time to see you in person, in this case many will ask for you to drop-off or mail your portfolio.

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PORTFOLIO SERIES - GET PREPARED TO PLACE YOUR FOLIO ONLINE (article 7) Seventh article in series. It is important to have a portfolio online, findout why.

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PORTFOLIO SERIES - DIGITIZE AND OPTIMIZE YOUR PORTFOLIO IMAGES FOR WEB USE (article 8) Eighth article in series. Learn how to get your images ready for the web.

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PORTFOLIO SERIES - HOW TO PICK ONE IMAGE TO REPRESENT YOUR PORTFOLIO AND YOUR BIZ (article 9) Ninth article in series. This week we are going to discuss how to choose one image to represent your professional identity, more specifically how to design your logo.

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PORTFOLIO SERIES - ARTICLE 10 - GATHER INFO AND WRITE YOUR RESUME OR PROFILE This is the tenth article in The AFWork Portfolio Series. This article covers how to make the most of an online profile or resume.

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Artist Portfolio Guidelines - This article feature ideas on how to create a successful artist portfolio and how to present your portfolio to galleries or to anyone. The information is useful to anyone in working in fine art or commercial art. It will help all photographer's, painter's and other artists that might one day have to create artist portfolio or present there artworks to a gallery.

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Choosing a Graphic Design Portfolio Case - After you've decided what will go in your graphic design portfolio (and created those pieces if you're just starting out) you'll need to decide how best to present those samples. Portfolio cases can be plain or fancy.

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How To Build a Great Portfolio (For Game Designers)- Recruiters, human resource managers, and others who are involved in hiring employees for a game company will tell you that every job opening can elicit hundreds of resumes. This means that an artist aspiring to join a game development team needs to make the best portfolio possible, because as the saying goes, “You only have one chance to make a good first impression.”

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Organizing Graphic Design Portfolios - Once you have your samples and your portfolio case, the next step is deciding how to best present those pieces within your portfolio.

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Building Your Portfolio Part 1: The Print Portfolio - Believe it or not, whether you work in web or not, as a designer or something else, everyone should have a print portfolio.

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Building Your Portfolio Part 2: The Web Version - Your online portfolio will contain some of the same material as your print portfolio, but include content, images and animations specific to the Web.

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Building Your Portfolio Part 3: Putting it All Together - Building your portfolio requires outside input--from books, other sites, professionals, colleagues and even friends. See our list of resources for a guaranteed polished presentation.

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Seven Things Recruiters Look For in Your Website Portfolio - Maureen Nelson explains from her interview with a leading recruiter what major elements should be present in any online portfolio.

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Portfolios - After reading this article, you will be able to:Describe key features of a successful portfolio, Use various techniques of portfolio development to enhance your job search and obtain feedback for ongoing professional development, and Assemble your own personal portfolio

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The Killer Portfolio - Part 1 - Every fresh and sparkling artist faces the same problems when starting out: where to start? what to do?--who to schmooze? The only place to start is in your studio creating art, doing whatever you want to do. But artists need people who will pay money for their stuff.

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The Killer Portfolio - Part 2: Revenge of the Killer Portfolio - In this second edition, I would like to answer some more specific portfolio questions. For example, what is an artist statement/biography? Where do I get slides? How do I put it all together? These are important things to know about a portfolio. Here is a simple guide to assembling the staples of a portfolio.

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Your Job Skills Portfolio: Giving You an Edge in the Marketplace - This article will show you how to develop your job-search portfolio, key elements to consider in developing your job-search portfolio, and the best resources to explore job-search portfolios in more depth.

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Illustration Portfolio Tips - Tips for how to choose illustrations for your portfolio, how to put together your portfolio and how to present your portfolio.

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Online Portfolio Layouts - Here are four different layouts for the same online portfolio. Use these ideas, or come use them to come up for inspirations for your own portfolio.

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Portfolio Creation Tips - The following material summarizes how one might construct a portfolio.

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Graphic Design Portfolio - Times are tough. It's not easy getting — or holding — a job. Interviews are partly about you, and mostly about your graphic design portfolio. Your design portfolio is your place to shine, as long as you know the basics.

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Web design in Portfolios - There are several different options for showcasing your Web design skills online.

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Creating Your Online Portfolio - Part 1: Getting Started - So, you've decided to take the plunge and market your art. Congratulations! You've just entered a highly competitive arena. What can you do to stand out from the crowd? Create a spectacular online portfolio.

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Creating Your Online Portfolio - Part 2: An Artist's Approach - Think like an Artist -- Not a Programmer

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Tips for presenting your brand and graphic design portfolio to its best advantage - Tips for presenting your brand and graphic design portfolio to its best advantage, from Tracy Turner of The Creative Group.

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Presenting Your Ideas - The portfolio, simply put, is a carrying case or presentation case containing your ideas. Employers in the advertising industry want to see that you know how to sell a product-- that you're an advertising thinker . If you mention in your resume a project or campaign you worked on, you should be proud enough to show it and prove it.

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Creating a Portfolio - In some areas of photography - commercial and industrial, advertising, social and editorial - it's important that you have a good quality portfolio of your best work ready to show people.

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How To Create a Portfolio of Your Work (for Photographers) - Creating a portfolio of your work is one of the most important things you can accomplish as a photographer. Unfortunately, relatively few photographers create portfolios because they find the process daunting or think their work is not good enough to be included in a portfolio.

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Preparing Your Portfolio for College Admissions - Making the choice to major in the visual arts for some students and parents can be a tough decision. Not only do you have to go through the academic admissions requirements, but also you have the added pressure of submitting a portfolio of the student's creative work. The portfolio is often the breaking point for many in the application process and for some it may even keep them from completing their application.

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What Goes in Beginner's Graphic Design Portfolios - You need samples to get the job but you need the job in order to have samples. That old Catch-22 doesn't have to stop you from putting together a good graphic design portfolio. It just requires a bit more creativity.

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How to Find a Photographer to Build Your Portfolio - Thousands of photographers will want to take your photograph, but finding the best person to shoot your photos is key to your future success in the modeling industry.

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Build a Portfolio Site - Promote your skills online
Build a portfolio website and show your CV to the world! Whether you're a freelance designer, struggling artist, independent plumber or unicycling juggling clown, hawking for work can be a soulless experience.

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Graphic Design Portfolios for Desktop Publishing - Why Use Portfolios and What Goes In Them. Desktop publishing or graphic design portfolios should be more than just a few samples thrown into a folder. Potential employers or clients use examples of your work to help determine whether they want to hire you. The samples you choose to display and how you present them can affect whether or not you get the job.

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Putting Together a Portfolio - Most of us think about portfolios being used by artists to show their work to potential employers. These days' portfolios can be used for just about any field of work. A portfolio can help you demonstrate or 'prove' your skills to an employer during an interview.

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The Professional Portfolio: It's not just for artists anymore! (DOC) - If you want to begin a career (as opposed to just getting 'a job'), you need to assemble a professional portfolio of your work.

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Build a Career Portfolio to Highlight Your Accomplishments - Gathering evidence of your day-to-day successes on the help desk can help you promote your career. Take the advice of one TechRepublic contributor and build a career portfolio to showcase your recognitions and achievements.

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How To Build a Portfolio - If you have a home-based business, you probably need to know how to build a portfolio to display your work.

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Questions to Ask as You Build Your Career Portfolio - As you assemble your career portfolio, think about these questions. They'll help you focus on what's ahead of you--and remember, only you can provide the answers.

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The Portfolio - Creatively Showcasing Your Skills

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HOW TO SET YOUR FREELANCE RATES - A GUIDE FOR FREELANCERS & CONSULTANTSThere are many factors which business owners must consider on a daily basis as it relates to the running of their business. Things such as how to find good help, where to acquire supplies and how much to pay one’s employees are all pertinent matters which must be addressed. There are a few ways to go about figuring out your rates when it comes to how much to charge the customers.

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MARKETING PLANS : A Collection of Articles for How to Outline and Write a Marketing Plan for Freelancers Starting a Home Business or a Small BusinessA solid, well-prepared marketing strategy is the foundation of success in business. The freelancer or any type of business owner must become informed on the development of an effective marketing plan. The following links will focus on marketing plan articles for the freelancer to have a successful business.

Mar 20

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BUSINESS PLANS: Business Plan Examples, Samples, Templates, Software and ToolsIn any type of the business including those people that perform freelance work, the proper tools are necessary to become a success. The following links consist of selected online tools for the freelancer to develop an effective business plan.

Mar 18

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MAR 03

FREELANCING AND FINDING WORK AT HOME JOBSThe difficulty lies not in the fact that there aren’t plenty of work at home jobs available but rather in the fact that genuine, quality, money-earning work at home jobs are all mixed up with work at home scams. This makes finding a work at home job that’s legitimate a not-so-easy task for people who are just breaking in to the freelancing business. But don’t worry; once you learn the lingo and know the basics, finding a work at home job gets a lot easier!

Mar 16

BUSINESS PLANS : A Collection of Articles for How to Outline and Write a Business Plan for Freelancers Starting a Small Business

Business plans are necessary in all types of businesses … and this also includes freelancers. Writing an effective business plan will help you plan out the success of your future business. Factors such as customer base, profit potential, as well as many other factors will be placed in this document. The business plan will help you, the freelancer, think through every aspect of your future successful business. We found the following business plan articles to be very helpful and we hope that you will find them to be useful too.

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FEB 25

HOW FREELANCER WRITERS CAN DEFEAT WRITER'S BLOCKHelpful hints and tips to overcome the dreaded White Page Syndrome - There is probably nothing more dreadful and problematic for a writer than not being able to get going, being stuck on a menacingly white page. Read on for more ideas on how freelance writers can overcome Writer's Block.

FEB 19

WAYS TO GET MORE CUSTOMER REFERRALS FOR YOUR FREELANCE BUSINESSThe amount of customer referrals will often determine how successful one’s freelance business can really be. As word spreads quickly, having customers refer others to you and your services is a wonderful way of gaining new freelance business and making more money. There are a few distinct ways to get more client referrals for your business.

FEB 18

FREELANCE HOME OFFICE DISTRACTIONS VS DISTRACTIONS WHEN WORKING IN AN OFFICEOf course, distractions are different depending on whether you are freelancing from home or working in an office. Both kinds have their pros and cons so let’s take a look at some of the basic ones so that you can start getting a grasp on good vs. bad distraction behaviors for freelancers.

FEB 08

WORKING FULL TIME WHILE RUNNING YOUR FREELANCE BUSINESSThe key to being able to make the transition to full time freelancing is in setting goals that allow you to focus on moving away from working full time for someone else and towards putting more hours in to your freelance business.

FEB 06

20 WAYS TO PROMOTE YOUR FREELANCE SERVICES USING ONLINE FORUMSThere are a few distinct ways in which freelancers can market their services through forum marketing techniques.

JAN 24

60+ UNIQUE LOCAL & OFFLINE MARKETING IDEAS FOR YOUR CONSULTING BUSINESS Although online promotion is important for your freelance business, it’s crucial to remember to go back to your basics and do offline promoting as well locally, nationwide, and worldwide depending on who you are marketing to. Here are over 60 ideas to market your consulting services locally. Let Freelance work find you.

JAN 22

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CUSTOMERS ARE GOOGLING INFORMATION ON YOUThis can be an issue for freelancers whose customers google them and try to find out information relating to them and their business. The following is a list of what to do when your customers are googling information on you.

JAN 19

26 THINGS TO DO WHEN BUSINESS IS SLOW AND IN DOWNTIME MODESome freelancers are anxious to work day in and day out which may present a problem for them when business is slow. However, there are many things which freelancers can do to bide their time while waiting for new freelance work to come in. Here are 26 ideas for staying productive during your consulting business downtime.

JAN 15

ONLINE CUSTOMER SERVICE TIPS FOR FREELANCERS & THE SELF EMPLOYEDThere is a casual attitude about communication that takes place online and that creates an environment in which customers sometimes don’t take your work seriously, leading to problems with projects and payments. In order to avoid those problems, you need to make sure that you are conducting all of your online work in as professional a manner as possible. Here are some tips on how to do that.

JAN 02

TOP 150 PLACES TO TRAVEL WITH YOUR FAMILY WHEN YOU STILL NEED TO GET WORK DONEWhen you are self-employed, there is no vacation time to save up, and there is no one to cover for you when you’re away. For many that mean giving up on vacations altogether, and this is what I have been doing for awhile. Most of These All-Inclusive Family Resorts Have Kids Clubs in Which Your Child can enjoy supervised and fun activities while you and your spouse can have fun or get freelance work done. Take a look below and enjoy!

DEC 30

LIST OF ARTICLE SITES, BLOGS, AND INFORMATION DIRECTORIES FOR FREELANCERS, CONSULTANTS, AND THE SELF EMPLOYED Do you ever get frustrated when you can't find the information that you need about freelancing? Well, I've just compiled a list of the best article sites, blogs, and directories for freelancers, consultants, and the self employed.

DEC 30

DECIDING WHETHER OR NOT TO FREELANCE OFFSITE OR ONSITE Deciding to work onsite or offsite sounds like a relatively simple decision, but it’s actually one which isn’t easy to make. Sure, when you’re lying in bed just after the alarm has gone off and you see that it’s raining outside and all you wish was that you could go back to bed for ten minutes and then do your freelance work from home, working offsite sounds ideal. But there are as many cons to the offsite work job as there are pros and you need to weigh them carefully when making the decision about whether to work onsite or offsite.

DEC 21

IS FREELANCING RIGHT FOR YOU? Freelancing, a term introduced by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), is when you work without being committed to an employer. With development of internet and communication technology, there has been a dramatic rise in the number of people going their own way and leaving behind the cubicles. You are reading this book, so you must be contemplating becoming a freelancer, but before you make your move there are a few things to consider.

DEC 20

FREELANCER'S GUIDE TO TIME MANAGEMENT The most common problem that freelancers face is figuring out the balance between work and the rest of life. While there are a few freelancers out there who don’t work as much as they need to in order to pay their bills and improve their business, most freelancers have the opposite problem – they work ALL the time. And that’s why there are a great number of freelancers who “burn out” after a short (or if they’re lucky, a long) time. In order to make sure that you aren’t one of those people who “used to freelance but got burned out”, you need to set limits on how much you work. Then you need to stick to those limits.

DEC 16

SHOULD I TURN DOWN FREELANCE PROJECTS? As freelancers, we often feel as if we have to say ‘Yes’ to every single job out there. However, we as freelancers are in a position where we can choose to say ‘No’ if we want to. Believe it or not, there are certain projects that you probably shouldn’t accept. Turning down work is probably the hardest decision you will need to make when running your business, but sometimes turning down a gig is necessary. In this article I will explain to you the details that you need to consider when you aren’t sure which route to take. Consider the following:

DEC 12

COOL IDEAS FOR YOUR BUSINESS CARDS As freelancers, we need to promote ourselves with business cards. How about putting yourself ahead of the rest of them by designing and printing completely unique business cards? You are about to take a look at the coolest and most innovative business cards that you have ever seen.

DEC 10

LIST OF FREELANCE FORUMS & MESSAGE BOARDS Looking to get together with other freelancers? Want to network? Want to ask questions about freelancing that you can’t find the answer to anywhere else? Look no further than the freelance forums that we have listed below. Feel free to let us know about forums that we have missed.

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