How to make money using Dribbble (Part 3)

As the name suggests, this is going to be a small series broken up into easily digestible parts for Freelancers looking to use Dribbble as one tool in your toolbox for potential work.

Likes and comments on your Dribbble shots are worthless

I suggest using this platform simply as a means for outbound marketing.

The engagement that would push your designs to the front page, ideally giving you a better shot of people messaging you for work, just isn’t realistic.

That’s actually great news though. Having a lot of people hearting your work is immaterial to the quality of jobs you can get. When anyone else besides yourself view your profile, they don’t see any of the likes.

I once stooped so low as to buy likes on one of my Dribbble shots.

Yes, what a fool I was!

I was just craving to see that number because… I don’t even know why. Inherent desire for attention I guess, but it provided nothing.

The sooner you realize that engagement on the site means nothing, it lowers your expectations, making it easier to post consistently.

And with the ability to post more consistently means you spend less time worrying about how your post is going to do, and more time on honing your craft and putting your best foot forward when a potential client looks at your page.

The validation doesn’t come from hearts, it comes from that $20k — $50k contracting job you get.