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Re: Ask HN: It's 2015 and I'm not in the situation I wanted to be. Need Advice

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Post by bettycf » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 3:25 PM UTC

EmmEff wrote: post #5

jwondrusch wrote: post #3

It may be unpopular to refer anyone to WordPress, but I made a 5-6 figure income as a freelance developer working with WordPress clients. WordPress is often a good fit for non-tech, small-medium size businesses that do not have an in-house tech department. Many of them will keep coming back as they see the potential that you offer them. If you know PHP, WordPress is easy to pick up. The backwards compatibility emphas…

This sounds like solid advice. I've done freelance work with Wordpress for one of my clients and it showed potential. Any tips on pitching WordPress to those who are not sure what it can do for them? This client, in particular, I was working with was interested in setting up an online store using WooCommerce. FWIW, I am a developer with strong Linux/unix admin knowledge, and plenty of PHP experience.

Yes, my early jobs when I was in school was about sysadmin and later learn PHP and Python. at first I sell my profile as a sysadmin expert and reading the comments I feel that was a mistake.

Re: Ask HN: It's 2015 and I'm not in the situation I wanted to be. Need Advice

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Post by bettycf » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 3:29 PM UTC

blakerson wrote: post #11

EmmEff wrote: post #5

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This sounds like solid advice. I've done freelance work with Wordpress for one of my clients and it showed potential. Any tips on pitching WordPress to those who are not sure what it can do for them? This client, in particular, I was working with was interested in setting up an online store using WooCommerce. FWIW, I am a developer with strong Linux/unix admin knowledge, and plenty of PHP experience.

As someone who frequently hires Wordpress freelancers, I offer this: Don't 'sell' the client on using Wordpress relative to other frameworks. They don't need to know the complete power and limitations of the WP ecosystem; that's your job (in their eyes). Just say 'yes.' >Can I add products later? Yes. >Can I add pages? Yes. >Can I add coupons? Yes. >Does it have SEO? Yes. It's easy work for someone like you with sysa…

Thanks! I think a lot about this, and start changing my profile, at first I was mention the tech skills in my profile I change it to more functional speech.

And I promise I will be less technical when doing proposals. Thanks for your comment I really think a lot about this.

Re: Ask HN: It's 2015 and I'm not in the situation I wanted to be. Need Advice

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Post by bettycf » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 3:32 PM UTC

jcr wrote: post #2

Thanks for the unknown "Reyes Magos" greeting; by looking it up, I got to learn something new. As for improving your situation, on the first day of each month there are three automated posts made by the HN user 'whoishiring'. You can find all of the automated posts in the HN user profile under the "submissions" link: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring The first of the three is the "Who is hiring?"…

Thanks, I'm overwhelm with the responses and feeling better with more plans for this year. Really appreciate all the resources.

I'm happy that you know about Reyes! here in Bolivia there is city named Reyes and there is also a big Religious Celebration. Really fun to watch.

Re: Ask HN: It's 2015 and I'm not in the situation I wanted to be. Need Advice

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Post by mooreds » Thu, Jan 08, 2015, 3:29 PM UTC

weitingliu wrote: post #39

mooreds wrote: post #34

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This is a really cool lead funnel that I'd never thought of. I'll have to take a look at these. edit: Just took a quick look and it is interesting to me that none of these seem to have mentors for the heavier 'corporate' languages like java or C#. Do you know of any mentoring sites for those?

Weiting from Codementor here - actually we do have mentors for Java / C# https://www.codementor.io/java-experts https://www.codementor.io/c_sharp-experts Let us know how we can be helpful!

Cool, thanks. I will look into signing up.