Ideas for Marketing Permaculture Design Work?

Hi fellow Permies.

I am curious if y'all have any thoughts or advice about where to market my design work. I have just about 20 years of experience in Permaculture design and education, and when it comes to the work, I am solid. Marketing, on the other hand, is not so easy for me. My husband and I had a business in Minneapolis doing design and installation work, but that was very localized and I am looking to expand to national or even international audiences.

Is there a topic here for that? I am better at reading land than websites. lol

Thanks,
Alana Bliss

Is there a topic here for that? I am better at reading land than websites. lol

As it happens we do have a forum for that, called (appropriately enough) blatant advertising
From the links there: concise guide to protoing your stuff on Permies

See also advertising on how to use the tiny ads for promotion.

I suggest making lots of awesome, helpful posts to build your reputation here, see reputation on why!

The tinkering with this site forum is the best place to ask about site navigation, posting pictures videos that sort of thing....
I hope this helps.

If I were trying to market my permaculture design work I would make a lot of posts here on the forum so folks would know that I know my stuff and include a lot of pictures of what I have done.

This:

Nancy said, I suggest making lots of awesome, helpful posts to build your reputation here, see reputation on why!

Mamalana Bliss wrote:
I am curious if y'all have any thoughts or advice about where to market my design work. I have just about 20 years of experience in Permaculture design and education, and when it comes to the work, I am solid.

I would start by editing your "about me" profile (https://permies.com/u/185965/Mamalana-Bliss)
to include a link to your website and showcase your design work.  Also highlight where you earned your PDC.  Include in your profile or (maybe even your signature block if it's concise) what your services are exactly, and how you can be initially contacted (Purple Mooseage, phone, Email, online Google Form or website form, etc ) and how you can be paid, and what services you freely provide.

Put yourself in your ideal clients' shoes (or more likely, boots or sandals) and think from their perspective.  Where are they, and how did they find you? Perhaps they discovered you from a free workshop you provide at the local library, or an awesome YouTube video, or chatted you up at a local house of worship, or a trash pickup at a National Park, or met you at Wheaton Labs, or as a PDC teaching intern on a permaculture institute's website.  etc etc

Since you're thinking internationally, if you don't have a portfolio of work online, that seems like priority one.  Until you have a fancy website, a wiki thread here on permies.com could easily help organize and showcase your work from these past 20 years, along with biographical information (to include what languages you speak) so clients can better appreciate your character and style and whether you're a good fit to support them.

Include on permies.com photos or links to your specific work if you already have it documented elsewhere, and quotes from satisfied clients to date.  Ask your current clients if they would be references for future clients, or if they can refer you to new clients.  Don't have any clients yet?  Well, the forums are filled with folks seeking novel permaculture ideas and designs.  Help others where/when you can.