BecomingWhoYouWantToBe

Many of you guys many be wondering..which is the best site to join, what is cheap ?, what is expensive ?, is free better ? There are many portfolio sites/communities out there and it may take some time to find the right ones for you. Well, it is best to take your time and think about the pros and cons of each one before taking the plunge.

I think PNW (Premium Network Worldwide) was the most affordable creative site of its kind. It has clearly miles cheaper than creativeshake.com and theispot.com, one of which I have joined to my detriment.

PNW is very unique because it is very easy to upload images and manage your portfolio, with a simple drag & drop type feature to help you to put things in a specific order. They are also taking the limit off the number of portfolios you can add to your profile, so you will be able to add work continually which is great.

The one thing that really took me by surprise was the great services that they offer, which there competitors have not even dreamed of yet. Once your portfolio is set up, the on-line team will actually take the time to send out emails to there large client base on your behalf, with a thumbnail link to your profile. I think this is done periodically, every 3-4 months, so that takes the pressure off a little for me. I have in the past spent hours upon hours sending out emails to companies over the net trying to get myself noticed. However, what really got me the most was the fact that they actually take the time to write articles about you and post them out over the internet to anywhere between 500-1000 article directories. I checked out the results of one of their artists ‘Andre Junget’ and saw there hand written articles show up 8 times on page one, which means these are serious about promoting there artists!! (all for the price of a Big Mac meal in the UK, 5).

I paid something like 325 for another well known portfolio site and all I got was a portfolio with 20 images and a biography!!!!. I think I have definitely learnt from my errors.

Of course you get the usual video uploads etc, but if your looking for an extra income you can sell your art from your profile page. Or if your are a Twitter fan you can link your activity to your profile for people to be updated. RSS feeds can also be displayed.

You can add blogs to your profiles to keep people up to speed with your activity or you can sell digital images as downloads.

There are so many things you can do to promote yourself on pnworldwide.net it is crazy. If your chosen as artist of the month or blog of the month they will send you a gift voucher for Itunes or Amazon. Trust me there are more things to write about, but I may have to write another article, just to share my thoughts on this and other nice sites.

Check out PNW if you like illustrators or if you really like illustration.