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Finding work online is not the only place.
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And we have a lot of jobs available locally as well.
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And one such place would be studios. So this would be marketing agencies, digital agencies, creative agencies
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the design studios.
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I don't know.
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There is many, million different names that they have.
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Basically, these are companies that do web design and digital work for their clients whoever may be, individual
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or company clients. Right? Sor if they are advertisement agencies for example. right?
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Marketing agencies, they are being hired by some big company that they need a landing page or 
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a website.
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So these sort of studios then they hire,
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they do have in-house staff, right?
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Obviously. They do have his in-house designers and in-house developers and all that.
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But what happens, is many middle, sort of  medium-sized agencies like that and studios, they have
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like a small amount of staff in house and they have like an army of freelancers
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they do most of their work. So that's how they sort of work.
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My biggest work engagement was actually with such studio. And we worked for a long time and they've sent
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a ton of work for me. And I've learned a great deal from them.
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And that doesn't mean, that they have to be local studios, they can be from different countries, different
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cities and different continents. I myself worked with a studio that was in Australia. And really really
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far from where I live, which is in Europe, in Portugal.
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Now, how you can approach these studios will depend case by case, but here are some strategies on how to approach
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them.
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I have a friend who is an illustrator and he has this approach. Once I asked him, you know, how do
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you get your clients? Because he doesn't work on freelancing platforms. And he told me that he just
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spams them. So he has this email list of different, potential clients, like agencies, companies, advertisement
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agencies, publishing books or magazines. Because those are the type of clients that he works with.
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And every time he needs work,
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every once in a while, he will blast email, using some email software. And basically he will inquire for
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work saying like, "Oh do you guys need an illustrator". Or something like that.
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And I'm not sure exactly what's the text he uses and how he approaches. But I know, he just inquires and
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asks, if they need an illustrator. And what happens is more of, sometimes at the exact time, one
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of these companies will need an illustrator at that exact time. So they come back to him saying that,
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"Oh yeah we actually do need an illustrator". And he gets hired. And it's a great approach because this
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saves the other guy's time.
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So, they don't have to post the job on freelancing platforms, or wherever, go through different people's
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portfolios and interview them, hire them, all that. It's really easy when somebody already came to you
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at the exact right time. Every design studio will have their own sort of style of design that they do
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on websites, right?
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They'll have specific approaches with the designs.
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There might be a bit more illustration based designs, might be more photography, might be more type based
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and layout based design, right?
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So, when you approach this, when do you decide to approach these design studios, go through their examples
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of work and most of them obviously will have their portfolio work on their website. Go through them and
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understand and kind of nail down what sort of style they use. And then approach those that you match
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the style or refine your portfolio in a way that you're kind of bridging that gap between your work
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and their portfolio to make it match as much as possible. Because when you then apply to the studios,
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they're gonna see if they have lets say,
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I know, dozens and hundreds of different candidates they are looking for.
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Obviously they are going to be leaning towards and picking somebody who really matches their style.
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Because they know that you will easily plug in into their workflow. So they
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don't have to train you. If you are like a more illustrator and and they are more into like photography
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based websites, now they would kind of have to retrain you on how to do a photography. Or they might,
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they will need to kind of completely challenge and alter your design style. So bridge that gap between
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their and your portfolio. And you will increase your chances of being hired by them.
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When I was managing company, we had this vacancy posted online and we had a whole bunch of candidates
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obviously applying for it. But one of these guys, one of the candidates showed up at our doorstep.
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He just showed up in our office and had a printed resume and CV of his. And he just handed this
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he said, you know like, "Oh hi,
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just, you know, I was applying for this job ad and I just wanted to hand  my CV personally." And I was
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like, I was very surprised, but very impressed as well, to see this guy's kind of confidence and audacity
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to kind of show up and come and apply for the job at in-person.
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And when I had to go through 200 different job applications.
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One person really stood out. Obviously, because he showed up. No one else did. And no one else did anything
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differently.
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And funny enough, I would probably dump his application, if he hadn't showed up. Because his CV and
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his application wasn't strong enough, and his experience wasn't good enough for what we were looking
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for. But because he showed up, he was just, you know, memorable. And I kind of liked that confidence and his
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sort of proactive attitude and he got the interview.
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He actually skipped the interview part and got to the final phase,
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final selection phase, with the three other finalists. And he got that only because he showed up.
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Sometimes all it takes is just show up and hand in your printed portfolio. Because not many people are
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doing that.
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People who hire, they are busy and they appreciate any extra step that the candidate will take.
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No one can get you closer to the job opportunity than the people inside those studios. Using LinkedIn
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and Facebook,
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you can definitely find people who work inside those studios and then connect with them directly using
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other social networking sites probably like Facebook Instagram Twitter and direct messaging them.
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I myself have never done this but I know a lot of freelancers.
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They do things like that they connect with people inside.
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Even those who are actually hiring the managers or the founders of these studios if you are that kind
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of person and if you can easily connect with strangers, give it a shot.
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I'm not that kind of person and it doesn't work for me, but may be it would for you.
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So, just throwing it out there, as an idea.