10 top online marketing tips for creatives

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As a creative professional, you have a number of choices when it comes to making money from your work. Whether you intend to work with clients one-on-one or take advantage of an online marketplace, a proper promotional strategy is crucial to getting your work noticed and sold.

Thanks to the internet, you can quickly kick off a digital marketing campaign without ever hiring a professional marketing agency or spending thousands of dollars on advertisements. You can build a great portfolio website (maybe using one of the best website builders available), share your work using the best cloud storage services, and launch a rigorous marketing campaign, all without ever enlisting professional help.

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Ritoban Mukherjee

Ritoban is a freelance journalist from West Bengal, India. His work has been published on Tom's Guide, TechRadar, Creative Bloq, IT Pro Portal, Gizmodo, Medium, and Mental Floss. Ritoban is also a member of the National Association of Science Writers, and for Creative Bloq Ritoban has covered his areas of expertise including cloud storage, video editing software and marketing.

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