How to become a freelance web designer - Part I

Going into web design as a professional, even as a part timer, requires a certain amount of planning and preparation. Here are a few tips to get you started

1. Your Own Freelance Site

It is your shop front and must be looked upon as such. At a minimum it should be free of errors in both the code and the copy, cross-browser compatible, easy to use and read and professional looking. If you have tacked on the fact that you do web design to a personal site it may be a good idea to separate the two and build a new site at a different domain purely to promote your services as a designer.

Internet Marketing Explained In 5 Minutes Or Less

Internet marketing is still a complete mystery to a large majority of Internet users. For many net users, online marketing is seen as some foreign area of the web, populated with silly get-rich-quick schemes and unsavory characters ready to rip off the innocent and uninformed consumer at the click of a mouse.

In fact, Internet marketing could not be further removed from this unfaltering picture. In reality, Internet marketing is populated mainly with hard working professionals promoting and selling high quality brand products by many of the world's Top 500 companies.

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4 Steps to Increasing Sales via Social Media

Nothing compares to the Internet when it comes to creating awareness for your product or service. No magazine, radio commercial, TV ad, or anything can have a greater effect on your target market than using Social Media to promote your business.

Think about it, nearly everyone in the western world has access to the Internet, either via their home computers, PDA's and cell phones. No wonder Google has over 200 Million look ups every day!

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