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Finding Your First Clients

Once you become better known in your profession, clients will constantly come to you instead of you looking for them. You’ll often be so busy with work and won’t need to market yourself as often. But, what do you do when you’re just starting out...

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IdeaSelling: Successfully Pitching Your Creative Ideas

IdeaSelling by Sam Harrison is an interesting short read read on how to pitch your ideas to clients and how to make a sale.  The book contains many quotes, ideas and quick worksheets in order to gain the confidence to approach a client and make...

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35 Books All Freelance Web Developers Should Read

If you follow me on Goodreads, you know that I absolutely love to read. I’ve always been a big reader, but since I’ve become a freelance I’ve made sure to read even more than usual, in the field of business, development and the web in general. Reading is...

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How to Find Your Freelance Specialty

There have been several debates on whether or not you should specialize your services. It’s almost as heated as a debate as whether or not you should charge hourly or project rates. However, I firmly believe that specializing my services and clientele was what really allowed my own business...

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Starting Your Own Apps: Getting Help

Starting your own app or personal project is super cool. You get to do what you want and how you want to without having to worry about those dreaded client revisions. Working on your own apps give you a reason to wake up early in...

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Five Lessons I Learned From The BizBreak Contest

For the past two and a half months, I’ve been participating in the BizBreak App contest. While I ultimately came out in 3rd place (darnit), it was a lot of fun to participate in and I ended up learning a lot of surprising things. Participating...

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