My Career Plans
In the near future (a time frame that encompasses 3-5
years), I hope to become a full-time web designer. Whether it means that I’ll
be working full time for a company to maintain its web site, or that I go out
on my own and be freelance, that is still up in the air. Either way, I intend
to use what I have learned in my Social Media class to help bring attention to
my web sites. It could be done in a variety of ways: if the company I will one
day work for hasn’t done so already, I’ll start a Facebook page for it to help
promote them and bring more attention. I could perhaps make a Wikipedia article
about the company to add some much-needed information about them. However, if I
end up striking out on my own, then it becomes even more important to create a
Facebook page, not only for the websites I create, but to help promote myself
as well. I’ll be a completely new face in the market, so exposing myself
(figuratively, of course), will help being some much-needed attention to myself
and my works. I will also start up a Twitter page as well. This quick way of
connecting will help inform my clients of whatever changes and updates I
have/will make to their websites, if I haven’t already done so through e-mail.
All in all, the best way for me to be successful in this
business is to utilize the Three C’s: Content, Creativity and Consistency.
Without those three, my websites will stagnate, and if they stagnate, I lose
visitors, and if I lose visitors, I will eventually lose clients as well. And
for a web designer to create a dull website that no one would want to visit,
that would be the biggest shame of all, bar none.
