One of the greatest help that social network sites can provide to those who wish to earn money online is more exposure for their profiles, which include their websites and blogs. But social network sites are mushrooming like crazy nowadays that it can be just so confusing on which one to pour all your efforts on. Although I’m not saying that you should put all your eggs in one basket, it’s important to know which will be the most useful in helping you find employers or profitable projects.

FaceBook

I’ve landed about two jobs through my Facebook contacts. Now that doesn’t mean that you will also find that much or less clients/projects through this application-laden site, it has a great potential.

MySpace

If you have a very popular MySpace page and you know how to play your cards well, with its millions of members it will be hard not to find new clients if you know the best groups to join, the right people to follow, how to post bulletins and update your page accordingly. Oh you can even earn indirectly with the help of your creativity and the popularity of MySpace – What about those MySpace layouts you’ve been creating for how many months now? I’m sure you don’t need to be told that you can earn from those MySpace layouts. Like WordPress themes, MySpace layouts are one of the most searchable site skins and anything highly searchable deserves attention from those who’d like to make money online using a website serving ads.

LinkedIN

It won’t be dubbed as the world’s largest professional network for nothing. One way that I notice to be of good use to get people to notice you and hire you is use the question and answer feature. Ask a question related to your job and you just might find potential clients inquiring about your services any time soon.

Do you know of any other social network site that’s home to innumerable headhunters or busy entrepreneurs looking for contract workers? Please let us know about these social network sites so we can all be merry finding landing more projects.

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Social Network Sites that Can Help You Find Clients

Whenever my boyfriend (nope that image on the left is not him, guess who that guy is) sees me taking a photo of myself and cropping it mugshot-style, he’d quickly ask me if it’s a slow season. He means that are there not enough projects that I’m looking for new clients.

He got this idea when he saw me the first time cropping one of my headshots and placing it on my blog. His eyebrows met while asking why the heck do I have to parade my picture online. You see he’s not the Internet marketing savvy type.

I appeased him by saying that putting a picture on my blog gives it a professional touch, thus helps in finding new clients. Even before I’ve read from so many blogs of professional bloggers, freelancers, and consultants that putting an image of yourself on your blog gives a warmer face to your blog, I’ve already been doing this and I don’t know whether it’s just a coincidence or not but new clients do find their way to my blog and email me enquiries whenever I change my headshot.

Although the title of this post suggests it, I’m not trying to finally inform you that I’m such a conceited being (though I can be oftentimes ), but it’s just that back then whenever I post a new image, I notice that new clients find me or that I get more inquiries when I have pic on my blog. Weird, don’t you think?

Now how about you? Do you have your picture on your blog? If you are a service provider, do you think an image on your blog might in some way influence the decision of a potential client to whether hire you or not?

This reminds me of the reason behind why images beside AdSense ads can help generate more clicks. Do you think it’s the same thing with us service providers with blogs?

The recent oDesk blog post entitled The Best Portraits on oDesk inspired me to write about this topic.

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