Comments on: 15 Proven Ways to Gain Exposure for Your Design Portfolio

By: cofixy

cofixy — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:45:46 +0000

Here’s a facebook page where you can post your site: http://www.facebook.com/postyourwebsite

By: Kudos

Kudos — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:02:36 +0000

Nice read. Particularly like point 9 – Do Interviews. Never really thought about this and just shows how much research and thought you’ve put into this post.

By: Chris Titze

Chris Titze — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:35:11 +0000

Thanks for the tips. I like the gallery rush one a lot.

By: Ioan Popa

Ioan Popa — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:48:08 +0000

To be honest I would add 2 more points:

1. Submit your work or website to awards like cssawards.com etc to get brand awareness and traffic that could get you customers.2
2. Work on websites like 99designs.com and improve yourself, the best branding and web designers are the and you can measure your designs and also get some good money out of it,

Great post I will tweet it to get more people to see it.

Thanks.

By: Spokane SEO

Spokane SEO — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:37:46 +0000

This is really great advice. From my experience thinking out side of the box with tactics like these can go a long way towards getting noticed.

By: Shawn McConnell

Shawn McConnell — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:22:54 +0000

One Tip that helped me is to focus on what you are proficient at

Don’t waste time showing your some what good abstract work when that space could be used for your better Vector work etc…

By: Nauman Akhtar

Nauman Akhtar — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:01:54 +0000

Great article and a very great collection of well designed websites, impressed

By: Vandelay Website Design

Vandelay Website Design — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:54:28 +0000

Arkadi,
I do not personally have experience selling templates and I didn’t have any specific type of templates in mind. I know plenty of people that are making money with template/theme sales, for some it’s a part-time income and for others it’s full-time. It certainly does require time, not only to design and code the templates but also to support your customers.

By: Geng

Geng — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:54:10 +0000

Great article!

Having a high-quality design is definitely the most important factor.

A beautiful portfolio will get featured on other sites easily.

By: Arkadi

Arkadi — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:29:45 +0000

Hi,

Very useful post!!

I would like to focus my response on selling Templates… Recently, I needed a Joomla template, so I went to some top site that I found on google, spent 50 bucks, then 2 weeks later I found the same template laying somewhere for free. It was also a big Joomla template site that looked pretty legit.

My point is that right now there are millions of free templates. Especially for WordPress, HTML/CSS, Joomla. Plus, competing with huge template stores that have templates that are full of flashy animation, jquery flying up and down, and bunch of other stuff seems highly unprofitable. No? Giving away templates for free is a different story.

But I wonder if you managed to sell a lot of templates and for how much. Are you talking about selling some high-class professional templates that make Apple’s website look like a 12-year-old made it? Or just regular nice-looking templates? – You know what I mean? – The templates that please the eye but you still don’t go “WOW!”.. I must admit that a lot of templates that cost $60 at those Template Stores are really impressive and do make Apple website look like a baby’s store.

Anyway, great article! Good luck! =)