Where and how to publish, pump up your portfolio.
Where and how to publish? Pump up your portfolio.
Publishing your work on different resources is called "seeding".
The purpose of seeding is to get a potential customer interested in the quality of your work and lead them to an "assembly point".
The assembly point is the main resource where all your potential customers flock to. Usually it's a website, a social media page, a portfolio gallery or something similar. The main thing is that it has to be one thing, like a website.
It's easier when all potential clients come to one resource, where you already introduce them to you in more detail. If you suddenly have changed contact information, such as email, it's more convenient to change this data in one place than to change the signatures and links on many resources.
You can publish in many places, wherever possible, but from all these resources, send the viewer to one page: your website or instagram, page behans or other. A list of resource sites, where you can post your work, will be below.
What characteristics the "assemblage point" should have:
1. Adaptability. Half of Internet traffic now goes through mobile devices, which means your site should be easy and fast to load from your phone. No Flash, redundant design, registrations, complex sections. Now, there are a lot of cheap services, which can make such a site. For example, squarespace.com. A platform Behance offers to make an account in the form of a site for $ 20 per month and link it to your address.
2. Availability. If you use local services, the chances are that they may not be available in other countries. The service must be reliable and accessible from anywhere in the world.
This point may include the speed of loading the site and pictures, so fast hosting or international service - this is very important.
3. Contact information. It sounds obvious, but many neglect this. Either the mailing address is not up to date, or it does not exist, ant then it is not clear where to write you a letter. No phone number too. If this is your social network, the account should be open, albums with pictures should be available for everyone to see, not just you personally.
If the "assemblage point" is your Instagram account, then the profile description should include contact information. A little hint - in the header of the profile you can specify a link to your site. Adaptive, of course. If you don't have it, then https://taplink.cc service will help. It's an adaptive site, which is built in 5 minutes. For example, you can make it like this: go.render.courses
4. Removing the distrust. What kind of person you are, where are you from, why should I trust you with my project? And if you disappear with the prepayment? Or maybe it's some schoolboy? What kind of nickname is XXXNagibator3000XXX? What's behind that anime girl avatar?
In short, you have to remove all the reasons for disbelief. If you work with a team, write about it. If you have an education, certificate, office - say it, specify the location of the office.
An important point. A person on the Internet is very lazy and inattentive. If after 3-5 seconds they didn't understand what you have to do on your website and where to write/call, if they have even a shade of distrust - you will lose them. In addition to your site or portfolio, they have another dozen of similar open tabs. They will simply close this site and go on to drift through the information flows.
5. CTA. Or Call to Action.
A call to action: "if you like the work - write, you want the same project - call", etc.
Yes, on the one hand it looks like a ridiculous marketing gimmick. But it really works, because people on the Internet are lazy and inert, as written above. You need to be clear about what you need to do.
Okay, it got a lot of text with the "assembly point," but it's important.
Now, let's move on to the list of resources to publish:
https://evermotion.org/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?318-VISUALIZATION-GALLERY
http://www.cgarchitect.com/gallery
https://corona-renderer.com/forum/index.php?board=3.0
https://www.ronenbekerman.com/submit-showcase/
http://www.3dartistonline.com/category/architecture
http://www.cgarena.com/submit.php
http://cgworkshop.org/forum/
https://cgcookie.com/gallery/
http://forums.3dtotal.com/forumdisplay.php?f=5
http://www.vrayworld.com/
http://www.cgvertex.com/search/label/Galeria
https://www.treddi.com/app/gallery
https://www.facebook.com/groups/vrayworld/
http://www.treddi.com/
Social networks - get yourself profiles there. Many of them allow you to do cross-posting, where your work is published on one social network and the post goes automatically to the other:
https://www.instagram.com/
https://www.facebook.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/
http://www.pinterest.com/
Register with all resources, fill out a profile, put in a good photo.
Set up a default signature if there is such an option. There add a link to your "assembly point" (site, Instagram, Behance, etc.). You can also add a CTA there - "View all portfolio" or something similar.
If there is no automatic signature, add them manually under the pictures.
If the administrator does not allow linking to the site, put a link in your profile description.
If you want to link your website, you can link the content from your own site. This is additional traffic to the site, so it is useful for promotion.
Repeat the action for all the resources you can reach. It is better to do all at once, so it works better for the viral effect, and there will not be confusion about what has already been posted and where.
Resource addresses, logins and passwords can be gathered in a table excel, so you don't have to go through password recovery.
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