Designer Vs Designer
As a designer (or developer), you find yourself going one on one with the millions of other [designers] trying to do what you are. The beauty of the web is it allows the employer to browse an ever expanding and almost never ending list of designers & developers, all working as freelancers, all offering different prices, services, and skills.
How in the world would you get yours to stick out and make an effect in the mind of the employer? And how could you have any type of advantage over everyone else in the same field.
While competition is stiff, you first need to know your strengths and weaknesses. Set out a target audience and make sure once someone hits your site, they know actually what your all about. It takes one glance at someones site to either send an employer back to somerandomdesignforum to find new designers, or to contact you and get a quote. Approach things with a no-bs attitude, and be as accessible as possible to clients, because positive feedback from them will help you grow and become more respected in the long run.
Your Idea VS Theirs
Another common problem when dealing with competition is dealing with the big boys. While Devlounge was in the works in December 2005, Vitamin was also being developed. With Vitamin being created by the same team that brought Dropsend into circulation in 2005, Vitamin immediately launched with tons of interest and potential. Vitamin was then able to get the leading designers and coders to work as correspondents, assuring them extremely high quality content from the largest well-knowns of today.
So with the launch of Devlounge came anticipation and anxiety, as we had to try and compete with a resource attempting to do exactly what we were, but 5000 feed readers strong and full of a revivals dream staff team. Still, in it’s third month since launch, Devlounge is off to a solid start, although it will take time to reach the status of Vitamin.
How exactly do we plan to do that? Well, we can’t reveal all of those ways, because we have to save certain things for the future, and that’s exactly one way to advance yourself and stay at pace with large, already thriving competition. In our case, this also includes trying to create our own original content that has yet to be discussed on Vitamin, or maybe giving our own side to an article published there, trying to give us some leverage.
