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…Building Findable Websites
Building Findable Websites by Arron Walter is one of the best books I’ve read on the subject of SEO, web standards and accessibility in the world of code. Aimed specifically to developers, Building Findable Websites is 264 pages based on several topics. This isn’t a regular SEO book, but teaches “findability” through good coding practices, including...
Read more…Screen Your Potential Clients: Keep The Ones You Want
Once you’ve become established as a freelancer and find that your schedule is often pretty full, you’ll quickly realize that come clients are just better to work with than others. Every freelancer wants to stay away from that nightmare client, but not every freelancer is in a position to pick and choose their clients–at least...
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…What is your online engagement strategy?
A while ago I read a great blog about LinkedIn connection strategies called Are You a LION, Turtle, Hound Dog, or Alley Cat? What’s Your LinkedIn Strategy? The author presented four basic connection strategies. 1) The LION (LinkedIn Open Networker), who connects with everyone and everything without much thought behind the connections; 2) The Turtle,...
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