Diana Marinova

Freelance Mentor & Marketing Consultant

Professional Benefits of Networking Online

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Online networking is a mystery for many – seemingly it takes so much time and one can hardly ever see results of it, at least on the surface. This is an ongoing discussion I have with a couple of friends and I recently received the same question from one of my LinkedIn (LI) connections:

Mostly I see you so actively involved in different types of discussions at different forums. I could not yet understand what professional benefit people get by involving in public discussions. It takes so much time to reply the queries and then of course you are left with much less time for your actual work. Can you kindly give me an idea how you utilize your active participation in discussions.

So that’s what today’s post is about – a brief overview of professional benefits of online networking.

Freelance Marketing: One Sure Way to Stand Apart from the Crowd

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If you use freelance websites like oDesk and Elance to find work, you know tens and sometimes hundreds of people apply to the same project. Many starting freelancers can’t bear the level of competition and quit before they have even started.

If you are pitching clients directly, you don’t battle competition as directly as on the freelance job boards but you are still battling competition. There are many qualified freelancers out there looking for work and quite possibly pitching the same prospective clients you do.

In both cases, the key to your success is to stand apart from the crowd.

How to Get Freelance Work without Experience

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If you are wondering how to get freelance work without experience, you are probably a victim of that no-experience-no-job conundrum where clients don’t award to you projects because you lack freelance experience but you cannot obtain any freelance experience unless a client awards you their project. To make it even more complicated, I’ll tell you that the posed question is a tricky one because the answer might be different, depending on what you really mean.

3 Freelance Marketing Ideas to Attract Customers on LinkedIn

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This post comes as a reply to an email I got from a reader. He asked me if I can share any ideas to attract new customers on LinkedIn. Then I realized – he was just another freelancer among many out there who didn’t know where to start with his freelance marketing activities. So here are the top 3 things every freelancer should do on LinkedIn to attract customers.

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