Do free or VERY low paying easy work. Record the results your website achieved (boosted calls, etc) and then boom.
less about design. More about how you helped your client improve their system.
Start with someone close to you, if possible. Then branch out.
when I first started, I did a free website for a friend of mine. No pay. He just paid for the assets needed. Took me about a week. It was done and then I used that to try to get paid work.
Don’t want to discourage you, but gold prospecting without a portfolio and trying to charge will be damn near impossible.
find a group, a friend, a family member, someone in your circle. Have them pay for the template needed, domain, host. Build them a site for free.
Use that site as the first of 2-3 portfolio projects.
Also...
Don’t niche down right away until you have portfolio work. Then look over your portfolio work and figure out what niche you think you can help the most.
That way when you do contact a business, they’ll see you did relevant & relatable work.
less about design. More about how you helped your client improve their system.
Start with someone close to you, if possible. Then branch out.
when I first started, I did a free website for a friend of mine. No pay. He just paid for the assets needed. Took me about a week. It was done and then I used that to try to get paid work.
Don’t want to discourage you, but gold prospecting without a portfolio and trying to charge will be damn near impossible.
find a group, a friend, a family member, someone in your circle. Have them pay for the template needed, domain, host. Build them a site for free.
Use that site as the first of 2-3 portfolio projects.
Also...
Don’t niche down right away until you have portfolio work. Then look over your portfolio work and figure out what niche you think you can help the most.
That way when you do contact a business, they’ll see you did relevant & relatable work.