This Excerpt is from Duct Marketing Blog:
Web people like to talk about clear and smooth businesses or web sites as those that are very simple for the visitor to navigate and experience. There are many places your business can fall down in this regard and all perform a marketing function, for good or bad.

So, here are some common places to look and make sure you are easy.

Are you easy:

• To communicate with - voicemail, email, contact us page, IM, click to call,
• To understand - narrowly defined market, simple core message of value
• To listen to - two or three well developed presentations on message
• To speak to - ability to listen and advise, know when to say no and thank you
• To network with - think give before get, throw away the score card
• To trust - consistency and content, be the authentic you, educate - don’t sell
• To buy from - smooth transaction, delivery, follow-up
• To work with - engaging experience, results driven
• To refer - tools that teach how to refer, give partners way to refer - workshops

This applies to you, whether just starting out or have been going for a few years - take a look at each point to see what you think you score highly for and those that you don’t.

People contact me for tips and resources to improve their learning and find out what it takes to work in Freelance web design and development.

All of us were in this situation at one point, not knowing how and which direction to take. So I feel it’s good karma to pass on and share this knowledge.

So you know what I’m referring to, here are some examples recently from visitors to Jayonline:

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The 5 essential sites that I visited everyday in 2007

Flickr > Reading comments about my pics, and looking at my contact lists latest photos.
Delicious > For finding links i had forgotten.
Twitter > Microblogging for the masses connected community.

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Here’s a link to an article over at Freelance Switch. There are many Blogs about really useful aspects of freelancing life, with tips and great articles.

They have listed 10 of the best. Enjoy..

On average I get around ten New Client Enquiries a week, around 3/4 of the enquiries are from the contact page of my web site.

The number often depends on many factors, the time of year, what my availability shows on my site, and how strongly the client wants to work with me.

I often find, people who ‘generally’ have their act together call me to discuss their initial requirements.

Also other emails are a lot of link requests, and outsourcing to Asia as well which maybe of use to some virtual companies.

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