Freelance Design Work

Here are three ways to find freelance design work and get graphic design jobs.

1. A lot of freelance design jobs are given by recommendation. Email or write letters to people you've done graphic design work for in the past or anyone you know personally with a business that might be able to use your services.

   If you can get one freelance graphic design job this way and you make a good impression, it will often lead to you being recommended by the client to other businesses.

   This is a great no-cost way to build up a clientele.

2. Another thing that works really well is setting up a blog or website to promote your service. This gives people in the market for design work a way to check out your portfolio and find out something about you without you having to directly approach them and try to sell yourself.

   It takes a bit of work to set up a website or blog, but once the site is up it will market your business for you and free you up to actually run your business.

   And who says you have to build the site yourself? You can easily outsource this if you have the budget to do so. It isn't prohibitively expensive.

3. Last, there are the online marketplace sites: oDesk.com, elance.com and guru.com, etc. Many American designers fear the overseas competition on these sites.

Many firms needing to outsource freelance graphic design jobs , want to work with designers in their time zone or who speak their native language.

Freelance designers in the U.S. and the U.K. often do quite well on these sites despite competition from lower cost of living countries. Most of these sites are free or very cheap to join. You have nothing to lose and much freelance design work to gain by giving them a try.

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