Give Us Your Portfolio Tips & Win a Carbonmade Whoo! Account
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Your portfolio is one of the most important promotional tools you have, no matter what kind of freelance work you do. It’s one of the the first things that a client will look at before choosing you for the job. You’ve got to make it good.
Three tips from Carbonmade’s co-founder and design guy, Dave Gorum, to get the ball rolling:
Quality over quantity.
I understand the desire to have a robust portfolio, bursting at the seams with gold star work. Fact is, the majority of folks can’t pull this off and it’s not something you can fake. A thin portfolio with a few solid pieces never turns me off. Looking through 20 ad banners does.
Show off your potential.
Apart from talent and expertise, potential is the biggest thing I look for. It’s not as tangible as the other two, but you can design your portfolio around it. Highlight your most ambitious pieces. I drool over the prospect of finding and hiring a designer with untapped potential.
Don’t make me ask.
Nothing drives me battier than looking through a portfolio of top shelf work and having no idea what you did on each project. See, I’m lazy, and playing 20 questions seems like a big hassle. Be up front with me and I’m that much closer to hiring you.
It’s your turn to tell us what makes your portfolio a success. Tell us your portfolio tips in the comments, and the best three tip-givers will win a free Carbonmade Whoo! account. Whoo! is Carbonmade’s premium offering, giving you room for up to 50 projects, 500 images and 10 videos in your online portfolio–without the hassle, money and time you’ll need to spend getting your own designed, coded and live.
The rules are as follows:
http://freelanceswitch.com/
Your portfolio is one of the most important promotional tools you have, no matter what kind of freelance work you do. It’s one of the the first things that a client will look at before choosing you for the job. You’ve got to make it good.Three tips from Carbonmade’s co-founder and design guy, Dave Gorum, to get the ball rolling:
Quality over quantity.
I understand the desire to have a robust portfolio, bursting at the seams with gold star work. Fact is, the majority of folks can’t pull this off and it’s not something you can fake. A thin portfolio with a few solid pieces never turns me off. Looking through 20 ad banners does.
Show off your potential.
Apart from talent and expertise, potential is the biggest thing I look for. It’s not as tangible as the other two, but you can design your portfolio around it. Highlight your most ambitious pieces. I drool over the prospect of finding and hiring a designer with untapped potential.
Don’t make me ask.
Nothing drives me battier than looking through a portfolio of top shelf work and having no idea what you did on each project. See, I’m lazy, and playing 20 questions seems like a big hassle. Be up front with me and I’m that much closer to hiring you.
It’s your turn to tell us what makes your portfolio a success. Tell us your portfolio tips in the comments, and the best three tip-givers will win a free Carbonmade Whoo! account. Whoo! is Carbonmade’s premium offering, giving you room for up to 50 projects, 500 images and 10 videos in your online portfolio–without the hassle, money and time you’ll need to spend getting your own designed, coded and live.
The rules are as follows:
- Envato and Carbonmade staff are not eligible to compete.
- Entries must be submitted by 9am on Friday the 30th of April, Australian Eastern Standard Time.
- Judging will take place at the end of competition. The winners and their tips will announced on the site.
- Only one comment per user–if you submit more than one, your first comment will be considered your real entry.
- All decisions are final.
- Comments that are taken down for any reason are not eligible to be counted.
