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be consistent in bids (don't bid ridiculously low or ridiculously high on project of some efforts).
give your employer a bit of detail about your implementation methods and road map, even thou they will not understand anything they will get good impression of you.
start off with few free or low priced projects to get a good rating in freelancing websites.
If you'd like a phone interview with CPAP.com shoot me an email at johnny dt goodman at cpap dc.
I've been freelancing for ~4 years, "properly" for the last 2. This is what I have found works... Your very best clients will come from personal recommendations. Avoid close friends recommending you; one of my first clients was recommended by a close friend, and you feel an obligation to both the client and the friend. Not fun - especially when you make a cock up and the friend calls you to say they are a bit let dow…
If anybody on HN would like to hire a highly capable and skilled full stack freelancer, I am open to small and large scale work. Please email me at protoweek at gmail. Thank you! :)
I've been freelancing for ~4 years, "properly" for the last 2. This is what I have found works... Your very best clients will come from personal recommendations. Avoid close friends recommending you; one of my first clients was recommended by a close friend, and you feel an obligation to both the client and the friend. Not fun - especially when you make a cock up and the friend calls you to say they are a bit let dow…
Thank you for your incredibly detailed reply. Tip #7 does not work for me as I am located in a country surrounded by minimum wage workers, and the kind of work I am getting locally is also quite subpar in terms or pay and expected/required quality. If anybody on HN would like to hire a highly capable and skilled full stack freelancer, I am open to small and large scale work. Please email me at protoweek at gmail. Tha…
But, I do sympathise. I'm fortunate to live in an area where a lot of small businisses are around and about, and where widespread access to the internet means websites for local firms is actually a good idea.
But that's not the only local diversification!
I once taught programming lessons, for example, to people. That was kinda fun and challenging.
I'd recommend you put your email in your profile. I have some work for a competent web developer ...
I've been freelancing for ~4 years, "properly" for the last 2. This is what I have found works... Your very best clients will come from personal recommendations. Avoid close friends recommending you; one of my first clients was recommended by a close friend, and you feel an obligation to both the client and the friend. Not fun - especially when you make a cock up and the friend calls you to say they are a bit let dow…
To add to your tip #7: Get to know your local user group. Google "PHP/Python/RoR/etc [Insert City here]". They might be doing monthly meetings, code sprint, bug squashing parties, or just enjoying a beer once in a while. That allows you to stay on top of what is going locally, get to know other freelancers, grow your network and have fun!
Damn.
In all seriousness, most non-major areas are very lacking in things like this. My area has none that I can find, and I tried to expand even to just general programming meetups.
Are you simply freelancing (one-man body shop) or consulting? The former is a short-term employee, the other involves "paying for a solution to a problem". Both are done for cost savings, but with a bit more up-front work to get in the door, the second tends to get you paid better. I've actually taken this route as of a few months ago, and the best advice is to share your new plans with people you've worked with in t…
i find it much easier for Programmers, Wepapp developers, iphone of android to find jobs, but for us Database/datawarehouse pros i really don't know where to start from with clients.
if i may ask, how did you start and approached Clients, Data is very sensitive, clients don't usually allow outsiders to look into it, how did you overcome those challanges