These past 4.5 years I put my design business on a slight hiatus. During this time I worked outside of the home and only maintained a handful of existing clients. Now that I find myself back on the job market and the world going through a pandemic, I thought it would be a good time to actively seek new clients.
This past week was spent testing tools to help run the operations more smoothly; below are a few of the items I began testing:
Project Management Systems
- Trello (https://trello.com/)
- Asana (https://asana.com/)
- AgileCRM (https://www.agilecrm.com/)
- Hubspot (https://www.hubspot.com/)
E-mail Marketing
- MailChimp (https://mailchimp.com/)
- MailerLite (https://www.mailerlite.com/)
- SendInBlue (https://www.sendinblue.com/)
- Amazon's AWS/SES with Sendy integration (https://aws.amazon.com/ and https://sendy.co/)
Stock Image Sources
This is just the beginning, my skills are stronger than ever and my motivation is higher than ever. In the coming weeks, I will have my Social Media calendar setup as well as my E-mail Calendar. I've also integrated a newsletter registration into my site and I've reached out to some of my clients regarding work and referrals.
I am just getting started, but I'm feeling good about Cherita Axel Designs.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ~Mark Twain