How to promote yourself on your website as a freelancer? Thread poster: Verónica
| Verónica Mexico Local time: 04:22 English to Spanish + ...
If you are freelance, can you promote yourself with a business brand (using an acronym joining the first 3 letters of the name and the first 3 letters of the surname) on your website? How should you address your audience in the texts of your website: "we are a company", "we do"? considering that initially it is only a single person but with the aim of growing and forming a team in the future or using the business brand but refer in the texts that it is only one person working individually? | | | Adieu Ukrainian to English + ... Do you have regular website traffic? | Apr 21, 2021 |
If YES... branding, web design, etc. could prove valuable. If NO, then it really doesn't matter one bit. | | |
Adieu raises a valid point, but you may have special reasons to brand yourself even without significant traffic. Regarding your original question, I was asking it myself as well, and it took me several months to make up my mind. I abandoned the idea of "we are" fairly quickly and was then hesitating between "I am", "Anton is" and "the company is". My final decision was to start with "XXX is a professional services company based in YYY, established by ZZZ in 2007", and then use "XXX ... See more Adieu raises a valid point, but you may have special reasons to brand yourself even without significant traffic. Regarding your original question, I was asking it myself as well, and it took me several months to make up my mind. I abandoned the idea of "we are" fairly quickly and was then hesitating between "I am", "Anton is" and "the company is". My final decision was to start with "XXX is a professional services company based in YYY, established by ZZZ in 2007", and then use "XXX is/does" throughout the site except when mentioning my personal credentials, where I referred to myself in the third person as well. However, mine wasn't a standard case and your mileage may vary.
[Edited at 2021-04-21 23:20 GMT] ▲ Collapse | | | Verónica Mexico Local time: 04:22 English to Spanish + ... TOPIC STARTER Website traffic | Apr 22, 2021 |
Hi Adieu: I'm just creating the site, I finished writing all the texts and then that question arose. | |
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Verónica Mexico Local time: 04:22 English to Spanish + ... TOPIC STARTER
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