How to promote yourself on your website as a freelancer?
Thread poster: Verónica
Verónica
Verónica
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Apr 21, 2021

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
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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.


 
Anton Konashenok
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It depends Apr 21, 2021

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
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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]
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Adieu
 
Verónica
Verónica
Mexico
Local time: 06:13
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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.


 
Verónica
Verónica
Mexico
Local time: 06:13
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Great Idea Apr 22, 2021

Anton:

Thank you very much for sharing your experience, your suggestion is a good alternative.


 


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