As a freelancer, you might end up showcasing your work on your blog or website, which makes sense, but there are times when you want to showcase it elsewhere. For example if your site design isn’t conducive to the kind of work you want to display or if you want to use your site for providing value while you save your self-promotion for your portfolio and/or CV.

So in this blog post, I want to give you a few different places that you might consider to post your portfolio or CV for prospective clients.

• Drop.io is a free, easy-to-use site that lets you upload many different kinds of content and configure the site to display your work freely or via a password. There’s a fair amount of storage, too: 100Mbs. This is a good place for visual artists, writers, and designers.
• Carbonmade seems a little weird when you first click there but once you check out the portfolios it’s better. This is the place for visual freelancers like illustrators and photographers.
• Figdig is a portfolio site for visual freelancers. It looks pretty professional (although it’s ad-supported in parts). Still, they have some great features and good protection to avoid theft of your content.
• Visual CV is a handy site to create a free resume. It doesn’t give you a lot of display options, but not every freelancer needs or wants that. You can customize your URL. Here’s an example of Guy Kawasaki’s CV
• Linkedin is an often overlooked place to build a CV. And since it’s already a networking site, you’ve got a built-in opportunity to leverage your CV a lot more easily than if you produced one and hand to show it to people. The basic version is free. One drawback is that there isn’t really a place to store samples of your work.
• Squidoo would work as a really easy-to-use portfolio as well. It’s ad-supported, which I’m not a huge fan of, but it’s really configurable and suitable for all kinds of freelancers.
• Don’t forget to check out sites like Guru.com and Elance.com (if you use them), which offer you a place to create and post portfolios.

Tips

• Choose ones that are appropriate for you: If you’re a freelance writer, make sure you can display or link to your work. If you’re a designer, make sure you can display or link to your work. In other words, don’t just pick one because it’s easy or free. Pick one because it will position you the most appropriately.
• Focus on a couple: It might be tempting to create several for the easy backlinks but I wouldn’t create as many as possible. Instead, I would only build one or two (I personally use LinkedIn and Guru.com, but I also use my own website for some portfolio display) and I would make them really, really awesome.
• Make them congruent: Before building them, solidify your message so you are saying the same things on both.
• Make them sing: Fine tune them to do a great job of positioning you and make sure that the links to your portfolios are on everything.

I’ve just shown you a few. There might be ones out there that are better for your situation. Figure out your needs, search around, and find the best for you.