10 simple ways to promote your account on Behance

4 min readNov 12, 2018

Dear friends, you are probably in search of information on how to grow likes and views of your work on Behance. I used to wonder about this too. I gathered some info online bit by bit, and also had some practical troubles that I will describe in this post.

For those who don’t know why you need to promoting your profile: Behance is a great source of commissions and a convenient instrument for displaying your portfolio.

That’s all.

If you aren’t looking for commissions or don’t need to sell yourself, then I don’t know why you’re even posting your work.

Let’s go!

1. Do it well or don’t do it at all

The first and most important point, don’t read on without it.

Yes, it’s trivial. But however hard you try to promote crappy work — it’s not going to do any good. You can get views, likes and even comments with motivated users. However, you won’t get too far doing that.

If you need to get commissions from Behance, hire an awesome designer for your next project. Make sure you negotiate that you’ll publish this work in your profile.

2. Fill in your profile

Completely.

Add links to all the social media where your work is presented. If you’ve got a personal blog/website, add it, too. “Aboutme” and “Work experience”

sections should not be empty.

A properly filled out profile: https://www.behance.net/tomclohosy3c07

A profile that needs work: https://www.behance.net/iamxxparka0e0

3. Only publish your best work on Behance

It’s better to publish just one, but the finest, of your works, rather than 10 average ones.

Browse through others’ top profiles, there are lots of designers with less than 10 works in their portfolio, but thousands of views/likes/followers.

Examples:

4. Share your work in all your social media accounts

Behance offers a chance to share your work on Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+. Use them all!

Also, add your own, where you have the most followers — Youtube, Tumblr, Flickr, etc.

5. Presentation

One of the most important points. It’s crucial to be able to sell your work. You need to work on the presentation for this purpose. It’s not enough to just make a screenshot of your work.

Followers love stories. Show your process. Your first sketches, your search, how you’ve gotten to the place you’re at.

If your wok is related to UI\UX — use animation.

Study top-rated work. Look at how the cool dudes do it.

Try to repeat it.

6. Comment and like others’ work

Be as active as possible. Find a work you like. Add a ‘like.’ Write a comment.

Great job, I like it!
Check my work and give feedback.

Get likes and comments in return.

Not everyone responds. The more you like and comment, the greater response you get, hence the comment growth in your account.

7. Unofficial collections, publics, forums

Share your work anywhere you can. Every sphere has its own forums, so publish your work wherever you hang out to achieve visitor growth, for instance, use Facebook groups: https://www.facebook.com/search/str/behance/keywords_pages

8. Related sites

Publish your work at similar designer websites.

Dribbble.com
Artstation.com

9. dribe.org

Service for exchanging likes, followers and comments.

It works as follows:

Like others’ work, receive points.
Use the earned points to grow likes for your work.

You can get up to 30 likes per day in a free account.

dribe.org can also work with dribbble, medium and artstation.

10. For the lazy

There is a Behance project promotion service. Likes, views and comment growth, the whole works — BeTop.me. Tasks are performed by real people, so the service isn’t breaking Behance rules and your account won’t get blocked.

That’s all for now. Good luck to you in promoting your work!