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The gist is to mine your network, and the best is when you can have contacts as champions in your clients’ companies. Here are a few good readings; - [20 Lessons for Attracting, Signing, and Retaining Great Clients]( https://www.theforcingfunction.com/blog/service-business )([archive]( https://archive.is/B0bWG )) - [How to be a Consultant, a Freelancer, or an Independent Contractor]( https://jacquesmattheij.com/be-co…
General consultancy is an extremely crowded space. As a startup CEO, I get at least 3 emails per week from software agencies and consultants. On top of that, they're usually located in India/Ukraine and the rates they offer are very low, so I assume it's very difficult to compete. My advice would be to differentiate yourself: - Become an expert in 1 thing, and one thing only: either start an open source project, or b…
Any suggestions to what that could be?
I'm a backend developer looking to specialize in something with a clear demand.
Top-of-the-head ideas are things like: Kubernetes, Postgres, Caddy, Self-hosting, Go or Google Cloud
Obviously, one has to try to gauge the demand before spending too much time on it
By the grace of god
So unlike some folks, I’m still very much reliant on $DAYJOB for the majority of my income. But I managed to carve out a niche in an unexpected place. OS/2 consulting It all started when I made a connection through a OS/2 community post asking for help on some CNC equipment running OS/2, and it turned out that they were fairly local to me, so I now have an occasional source of income in the form of troubleshooting an…
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How? This is what I never understood. Every domain expert I’ve ever knowing is because they’ve already I can spend all the time I have reading and toying around in a subject, but until I have real concrete experience to guide me, it’s usually pretty difficult to become an “expert” in anything. I know how to become an advanced hobbyist, but thats never in my life translated to someone being willing to pay me over say,…
If you're a dev, one approach to specialization is to align with the tooling associated with common "profit center" processes. Become a Salesforce/Hubspot/Odoo/Shopify developer. If you're not interested in developing, you can specialize in learning one specific ecosystem really well and then teach companies -- typically SMBs -- how to set themselves up and organize their operations around it.
how do i find what those are?
i see the point, but i don't find developing for one specific tool very appealing.