"pretty good for brand new"..."for being new your well on the way"..."Very good for first time work".... I'm sorry, but where do you guys read that he's new at this?
He might, but he never said that as far as I can tell, he only said "I am brand spanking
new here".
Anyways Attifire, you said "Please be brutally honest, I can take it, I swear!"
Good, because I don't like to fool people just to win a popularity contest, I prefer to offer real help, even if that means that they get to hear things they don't like to hear.
Like I said, I don't know how long you've been doing this, so I'm going to talk about it from a different perspective.
Let me first say that a "customer" won’t have any sympathy for the fact that you might be a beginner, all he cares about is the quality/price of your services and if that service isn't good enough (and I'll be honest with you, because your work doesn't show enough quality), you’ll often end up desperately dragging random customers from all kind of places to your business because your site hardly has any traffic and you’ll make no make no more than just a few dollars and dimes like in iDad’s case.
A good business that offers quality services for a good price will always sell itself in the long run, but of course to get it started it does need some exposure, just waiting for customers to knock on your door is not the way to go. Do understand that there is lots of competition in this area, so often it’s good to do something pretty unique what few others have done before.
My advice is to start a web site which has content that is extremely popular and in some way related to graphic design. Promote the site's
content (not just the site!) and you’ll easily get a few hundred visitors a day, at which point you start promoting your paid services on your site. So basically you have content that lures people into visiting your site, when the real reason is to expose your services. I like to call this the “honey pot” concept.
Mind you, I don't make suggestions how to make a living out of this, I'm just suggesting how to turn this in a hobby that pays reasonable well. How far you want to take it is up to you.
With the average material and the little exposure you have right now you can still get a random customer now and then, but you won't be able to charge much. If that's all you wanted, then go ahead and get some random customers because some WILL pay, just don't expect any shocking results.
You wanted an honest reply? This was one.
