Need Some Advice Please...

Every journey starts with the first step.

If I were you, I would probably make a "showcase portfolio"
of the whole spectrum of what you have done and can do
...perhaps with some positive comments by happy customers
pn a CD/DVD. Use voice and text to lead the viewer in their
journey through your expertise and examples.

Then go around your your local town/area and talk to
likely customers .... don't avoid freebies for good causes
like churches etc. Play the CD on your laptop ... and
leave a copy CD in a nice presentation case with likely people.

Try to get a feature/interview in the local news or community
and free papers or local TV/Radio station. Get some business
cards and headed notepaper. Get some "On-vehicle" advertising
stickers for your car. Visit people you know and aske them if they
know of others who may be interested.

This is a "slow burn" and low cost beginning which should not
take you out of any comfort zones too rapidly.
Then when you have a few good completed commissions to
add to your portfolio CD or website .... then you will have
gained confidence to expand your horizons further afield,
on the Net and online in places such as here.

Final advice .... be yourself and stay that way. Potential
good clients prefer doing business with competent human
beings .... not stereotypical sales people in power suits.
Get a friendly attorney to draw up a contract form and
terms which suit YOU!!! Stick to that and you should not
get ripped off by clients who never intended to pay for
your work. Also consider copyright implications which
clients might reasonably expect to own in respect of
work which they have paid for.

If all else fails .... open up the Yellow Pages and start phoning
when you have something like a good web/CD portfolio to
follow up with.

Oak trees grow from acorns

Hi

It sounds like you are a perfectionist. That said you must act on the information you have at the moment.

My advice would be to break whatever you want to do into small steps. Remember that saying... the best way to eat an Elephant is piece by piece?

There is only so much you can learn online after that you are simply learning to do the same things better. Most of those making profits (I do not mean those making money) have taken the first step. The question is what is your first step?

Mark it out and go for it. There is really no other way of telling you to take action. You have to want to do it yourself.

You've got what it takes. The fear of failure is really not an option. You were not afraid of failing to understand marketing were you?

If you put aside the fact that there is so much information out there and still waded through it then I think you are a candidate for success.

Hope this helps

K