New Web Designers: Getting Started in the Industry (Part 3)

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Crystal

Part 1 and part 2 of this series has so far consisted of planning and finally setting up shop as a new web designer. However, you can’t be a very good freelancer unless you have clients, right? In the previous steps we’ve definitely done work, but we need to start getting paid to work!

This is why in part 3 we will be focusing on getting clients, and more specifically on landing our very first clients. This can be difficult because many just starting out may not have any real-client portfolio pieces, and we can easily look inexperience or unskilled. There are plenty of ways to overcome this, though, so let’s look over a few options.