About a year ago I conducted a small-scale survey on how freelancers approach marketing and sales and what their biggest problems in these areas (and in general) are: https://bjoernkw.com/2016/01/15/survey-for-it-freelancers-ho...
Ask HN: Freelancers,What are your biggest painpoints?
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Heads up, this was impossible to read on mobile for me.
Re: Ask HN: Freelancers,What are your biggest painpoints?
#12About a year ago I conducted a small-scale survey on how freelancers approach marketing and sales and what their biggest problems in these areas (and in general) are: https://bjoernkw.com/2016/01/15/survey-for-it-freelancers-ho...
Heads up, this was impossible to read on mobile for me.
Sorry for that. Google Charts apparently can cause layout problems on mobile devices. The static image version linked in the article should work fine, though.
Re: Ask HN: Freelancers,What are your biggest painpoints?
#13Interruptions from calls, administrative overhead, self-employment tax, and health insurance costs. If at all possible, bill out jobs instead of hours. If you absolutely have to bill per-unit-time, choose as large a unit as you can get away with. Per-hour may work for attorneys, but when you have to watch the clock on every little thing as a developer, everyone loses. Unless you are old, do whatever you can do to min…
Let me ask you a question. would you pay someone to manage this hassle for you?