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Can we talk about the $400 I spent on that portfolio review service last fall
I paid $400 to a design mentor service to review my portfolio back in October, mostly because three agency applications in a row got zero response. The review was two 30 minute calls and a written doc, and honestly it did not give me much I could not get from posting my work in free communities. The one useful thing was a note that my case studies were all process and no results, so I rewrote three of them with real numbers. Six weeks later I landed my first decent freelance client, but I keep wondering if the $400 caused that or if I would have gotten there anyway. Has anyone else paid for a paid creative review and felt like the money mostly bought a deadline, or did it actually change your work?
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avery21919d ago
Wait, did the review really just tell you to add results? Because that part seems off to me. Most free portfolio threads say that same thing all the time, and it's not some big secret. The two calls and the doc probably didn't teach you much new, but paying money made you actually sit down and rewrite those three case studies, which is the part most people skip. I did something similar with a resume review years ago and the advice was stuff I already knew. What changed things was having a date on the calendar and a person expecting to see the update. So the $400 didn't buy you knowledge, it bought you a deadline you couldn't blow off.
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