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Charged $50 for a fancy portfolio template and my Canva freebie got me more gigs anyway.
I dropped $50 on a premium portfolio template from some design guru and after two weeks of fighting with it, the free Canva one I threw together in an hour got me my first paying client; has anyone else had better luck with cheap or free tools over the expensive stuff?
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theacooper13d ago
Wait, three interviews the next week from a Google Docs resume? That's honestly a little hard to believe. I mean, not that I doubt you, but my cheap Canva thing sat there for a month before anything happened. Maybe the key is just picking a template that looks clean and doesn't get in the way of the actual content, like you said. It's crazy how much time and money we waste on fancy packaging when the work itself is what matters.
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the_ben13d ago
Man, that's pretty much exactly what happened to me but backwards. I spent like 40 bucks on a fancy resume template and nobody even looked at it. My buddy told me to just use a basic Google Docs layout and I got three interviews the next week. Sometimes I think the expensive stuff just makes us feel like we're doing it right, but clients don't really care about the template. They just want to see your work clearly without any fuss.
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