Over the years I have had many opportunities to join portfolio sites for many different reasons. I joined some simply to get a back link to my site, which increased my Google ranking. I joined others to give me some exposure or some sort and I joined others simply to network and show some love. Well PNW is one site that offers all of these features plus more, I will be reviewing other sites soon also.

I think PNW (Premium Network Worldwide) was the most affordable creative site of its kind. It has clearly miles cheaper than creativeshake.com and theispot.com, one of which I have joined to my detriment.

For a fraction of the price of the former two, PNW (I think) offers you unlimited portfolio space with a very easy to use a fast upload system. You can also drag, move around and drop images to sort your portfolio out nicely, as well as add tabs with other features easily.

If you really are looking for a site that goes beyond the normal, then think about the following. Once your up and running, the on-line team will take some time to send out email campaigns for you to a big database of well known clients. I suppose it makes marketing a lot easier, especially for newcomers who literally spend hours sitting in front of the computer sending out emails to any and everybody. I used to be one of those people, but I think for a low low fee (just $9) per month, you can get that done for you. What is even better than that is the teams new article writing service. This basically means that the on-line PNW team will dedicate some time to write an article about you and send them out to hundreds of article directories. I had the pleasure of checking this out I by typing in ‘Andre Junget’. To my surprise the articles that were written by him showed up at least 8 times on the first page. It made me wonder, hey? I think this could be a serious promotional service here.

The email shots are sent out periodically to many high profile clients, with a thumbnail image of your work and a link back to your profile. Not bad for 5 ($9) a month!!. I am actually a freelance illustrator and I have had the misfortune of joining a number of high profile portfolio sites which did not offer any of these marketing services, for 8 times the price!!!.

You do get all the usual portfolio features, like the ability to upload videos, but if your one of those active users you can do a lot more than that. You can link your twitter or RSS feeds to your profile to keep users updated.

If you want to make a little extra cash you can sell your images as digital downloads. You can also write and showcase your blogs, which is useful and keeps people informed.

There are so many things you can do to promote yourself on pnworldwide.net it is crazy. If your chosen as artist of the month or blog of the month they will send you a gift voucher for Itunes or Amazon. Trust me there are more things to write about, but I may have to write another article, just to share my thoughts on this and other nice sites.

Check out PNW if you like illustrators or if you really like illustration.