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 or not well known? Before you begin getting clients, it...
Read more…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 a successful sale. I wasn’t into the book very much...
Read more…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 essential to any developer’s improvement. While blogs and magazines are great...
Read more…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 to take off and succeed. Read the rest of my...
Read more…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 the morning and to continue coding long after it’s quitting...
Read more…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 in these contests can not only be a lot of...
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