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A lot of us spend hours upon hours creating and tweaking our online portfolios. Some of us update regularly, some of us don’t. Some of us ponder over the slightest details, whilst others don’t care - but crafting a brilliant portfolio is definately an art which takes time, dedication, and skill.

In this article, we present 9 Brilliantly Designed Portfolio Websites - so you yourself can see what makes a portfolio great.

All choices have been hand-picked from hundreds and hundreds of portfolios which we have encountered over the years, so it should be a very nice selection indeed. We’ve probably missed out a few we should have included - please don’t hesitate to send us recommendations via the comments at the bottom.

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Freelancing is by no means easy. You are given responsibility of your own future, your own earnings, to choose who and what you want to work for; but this responsibility comes with a whole set of unique challenges in itself. You’re in charge of your own future, so if you make a mistake, you’re the only one to blame. You dictate your earnings, so it’s up to you to hunt down clients and make sure you’ve got a consistent cash flow. These are but a few of typical freelancer’s worries.

So how do we tackle these challenges? Well, put your seat-belt because we’re about to go through an entire list of ‘26 Useful Tips and Tricks for Freelancers’.

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In the last part of this topic, I covered ways to improve your portfolio. Usability was the main issue at hand, and I presented many ways in which you could make your portfolio user-friendly, and therefore attract more potential client interest. In the second part of this topic, I decide to go deep into the realm of marketing; and obviously in particular, the marketing of your portfolio.

Now, there are an abundance of ways for freelancers to market their portfolio in order to get more exposure and ultimately get better clients. I’ve noticed that freelancers in particular don’t take time out of their usual schedule to come up with new, creative ideas on how to promote their portfolio. A lot of freelancers don’t dedicate nearly as enough time as they should marketing and they don’t do it right. Well, here’s a list on ways in which you can effectively market your portfolio (also included are ways you could directly land more clients as well).

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Your online portfolio is one of the main windows for which potential clients can view ‘you’ as a whole. I deliberately said ‘you’ and not your work. This is because a portfolio isn’t just to show your skills at writing, designing, coding, or whatever else you may be freelancing in. It also represents your personality, interests and style. That is why it is very important to make sure your portfolio is PERFECT (and I mean that to its full extent). Want to know how to do that? Well, here’s how.

Note: This article comes in two parts, the second part will be posted in the future.

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Time management is one of those topics many people looking to go into freelancing fail to address and think about when making that ever so crucial decision on whether to go into freelancing or not; yet the topic itself is of utmost importance. The freelancing work style has no boundaries, no set times, no periods, no start times and no end times. There is no set structure. You may think to yourself that that’s a pretty easy problem to solve: just create your own structure if need be, but let me tell you know, sticking to that structure will be ever so difficult.

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