My first month freelancing • Hacker News Board

Re: My first month freelancing

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Post by flyinRyan » Thu, Jun 14, 2012, 8:19 AM UTC

ams6110 wrote: post #46

patio11 wrote: post #31

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Quoted daily ("Work is on a time and materials basis. Rate: $2,000 per day."). Invoices will typically cover a few weeks of work, depending on the tempo of your engagements, your relationship with a customer, etc.

This has to be regionally dependent. Around here there is no way you would get $2,000 day for web development. Best I have ever gotten is half that, for a one-day "emergency" engagement (i.e. drop everything and help me).

A general rule of thumb that's always seemed to work in my experience:

Contractor = 2x permanent employee Consultant = 3x Contractor

So $2k a day sounds on the low side to me but perhaps it works if you're talking 4-6 hour days.

Re: My first month freelancing

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Post by marcamillion » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 9:38 PM UTC

alinajaf wrote: post #35

marcamillion wrote: post #30

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Agreed. Admittedly - I am working on increasing the signal to noise ratio - but I never realized how valuable it was to have a constant stream of leads coming to me daily was, until I stopped doing it. I am also thinking of finding a way to make the entire process more efficient - but all it takes is a handful of leads a year and it has more than paid for itself. Does jobpile email you links - or is it just a search…

Just a search engine you go to. I was already paying a VA to trawl through most of the sites that it scrapes so using it saved me a few dollars a month. I'm quite sure there's a paid service at a similar sort of price range to what you're describing that does email you. Don't remember the name atm.

Finally launched just now - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4144245

Re: My first month freelancing

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Post by marcamillion » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 9:40 PM UTC

aantix wrote: post #103

marcamillion wrote: post #42

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I see...ok, well keep your eyes peeled - if you are interested :)

I'm interested as well. :) jim.jones1@gmail.com

Here we go, finally: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4144245

:)

Re: My first month freelancing

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Post by marcamillion » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 9:40 PM UTC

vitomd wrote: post #45

marcamillion wrote: post #40

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Thanks for this! I guess this is just validation that the idea makes sense.

great, I am interested in your project too.

Here you go: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4144245

Finally launched :)

Re: My first month freelancing

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Post by marcamillion » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 9:40 PM UTC

freshfey wrote: post #36

marcamillion wrote: post #25

I will ask a question here that I wrote on the original link, because I think it may be useful for others here. I recently started freelancing (the last 12 - 18months) also, and one thing I did - to generate new business - was wrote a script that sends me a bunch of leads. Right now, it's primarily from Craigslist, but I will add other sources. I showed it to a friend and fellow web dev and he loved it. So that made…

Count me in, I'd love to see what you came up with.

Here you go sir: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4144245