A portfolio — from the old-fangled paper version to a DVD ringing with bells and whistles — is a key component of your search for new clients or a new job.
As in so many aspects of drumming up work, the more you tailor your material to a particular audience, the better the target audience will respond.
To help you hit that target in the bullseye, this article gives you tools to figure out who is your audience and how you can meet their needs. After following these tips, you’ll be way ahead of the competition.
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Excerpted from pp 41-53 from Designing a Digital Portfolio (ISBN 0-7357-1394-4) by Cynthia Baron. Copyright © 2004. Used with the permission of Pearson Education, Inc. and New Riders.
This article was last modified on January 6, 2023
This article was first published on May 25, 2005
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