Finding a Job, Getting Design Work

Whether you are a new freelancer or looking to branch out, you need clients for your design work. Here are a number of common ways to find customers for your desktop publishing, graphic design, web design, or related business.

Someone forward you this email? No Sweat! Sign up here to get your own If you're having trouble viewing this email, click here Follow Us Finding a Job, Getting Design Work Whether you are a new freelancer or looking to branch out, you need clients for your design work. Here are a number of common ways to find customers for your desktop publishing, graphic design, web design, or related business. Jacci Howard Bear Desktop Publishing Expert Crowdsourcing Similar to working on spec, with crowdsourcing there are typically multiple people working on the same project with the goal of submitting the "winning design." Like traditional spec work, it has its detractors.  READ NOW Spec Work vs. Pro Bono: Two Ways to Work for Free Both involve doing work for free although with spec work you're hoping to eventually get paid. Pro bono is a little different. READ NOW Cold Calling for Clients While it can still involve picking up the phone and calling someone you don't know to ask for their business, there are other ways to cold call as well.  READ NOW Doing an RFP RFP is a request for proposal. It's one way that some businesses may seek a designer to work with.  READ NOW 8 Ways to Find Clients for Your Desktop Publishing Business These are not the only ways to find clients but they are common ways that those just starting out find their first clients. And some, such as networking or having a web site, may be the primary source for some freelancers.  READ NOW In Case You Missed It: Don't Quit Printable Poster Get motivated to keep plugging away during bad times with this printable poster about not quitting. READ NOW Featured Articles • 4 Tips for Recognizing a Social Engineering Attack • aptX and SBC Slug It Out to See Which Is the Best Bluetooth Codec • The iPad's Do-It-Yourself Low Power Mode • Cookies before code... in PHP • Everything You Need to Know About Outlook Express 6 Free Windows Email Client • How to Create a Pie Chart in Excel 2010 • The Top 5 Keyword Search Tools Online • 10 Easy Ways You Can Make Your Blog Design Shine Advertisement About Desktop Publishing  |  Follow Us You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the Desktop Publishing newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 © 2015 About.com - All rights reserved. Privacy Policy.