I’ve been a freelance graphic designer for about 2 years. Many people wonder how I can survive, because they know that I don’t have big clients.
Most graphic designers, especially beginners care too much about having big clients, big job with big bucks. Well, there’s nothing wrong with that. But sometimes they forget about their capabilities, considering freelancer has to do all work that ideally have to be done by more than one person. The result is that they can’t focus and concentrate on creativity process which is their main job. Therefore they can’t fulfill their clients’ requirements.
Guess what?!
The clients wouldn’t satisfy, and…… they never comeback!
So, what’s the big deal about having big clients, big job with big bucks if you’re only getting once for awhile? In fact, you’re only getting bad reputation by that.
Personally, I don’t really care about the big clients and big jobs. Big bucks?! Yes! I do care. But big bucks don’t always come from big clients. How can I get it, then?!
Continuity. That’s the answer.
Having small jobs from small clients constantly and continuously is more important than having big jobs from big clients once for awhile for freelancers.
During my career as freelance graphic designer, I focus on small to mid-size businesses as my target market. It’s been more than enough for me. They keep coming back regularly because they get their satisfaction from the first job I given. In fact, I got free marketing by their recommendation from one client to another.
Getting new client is not easy, but (trusts me)… to make them keep coming back is even harder. Therefore, treat them professionally and yet personally. Call them once for a while just to say “Hi” and find out how they’ve been doing if you haven’t heard from them for awhile. Create an “open-communication” in order to make both sides comfortable, that way it will be easier to understand what clients need when you get projects.
Treat your clients equally instead of take a side on the bigger one, because no matter how big (or small) your client (or the project) is, they all have the same right: getting what they paid for, right on schedule.
How To Increase Your Page Rank And Web Traffic FREE
Intro
Google is the most popular and most used search engine that is used in this day and age therefore it is important to increase your link popularity to your website with links that are pointed to your site which will result in increase a of your website traffic and your Google page rank. How do you do this?
Page rank definition
Here is a definition of page rank:
Page Rank aka PR is one of the methods Google uses to determine the relevance or importance of a Web page. Page Rank is a vote, by all the other Web pages on the Internet, about how important a Web page is. A link to a Web page counts as a vote of support. If there are no incoming links to a Web page then there is no support.
Increase web traffic
To Increase Your Page Rank And Web Traffic for FREE
The best way to do this is to submit your website link to as many websites as possible the most popular methods is usually submitting your website link to web directories. There are millions of directories that you can submit your website to and they are mainly free for you to submit to.
Another method is link exchange. Link exchange is where you add a website link to your website and they will add your link to there website. This is usually occurs by a agreement by you and the webmaster or owner of the other website. This is a good way of increasing link popularity. There are websites out there that make link exchange easy and free, and you can also get a link exchange script for your website that will automate the process.
Usually if someone likes your website they will usually tell someone one about it and recommend it to them. The best thing is if that person owns a website they may want to tell the visitors of there website to visit your site. You can encourage this by adding a link to us page to your website. This page will consist of pre made html codes of your link just like this:
Website ALT tag
This will make adding your link to there website less of a task and you will have the proper alt text to your site that you want.
These are several method for you to increase your website traffic and also your Google Page Rank. Link popularity is very important for all types of websites and for many search engines to rank your websites highly in there results. |
