Freelancing Articles
How to Get More Freelance Clients Through Networking
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Truth is, you canʼt build a career by pretending to be peopleʼs friend until they give you money. Hereʼs what you can do instead.
Read more…How to Invoice Your First Freelance Web Development Client
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If you want to get paid for your work, you need to invoice. What does that even mean? How do you do it? Watch this video and learn my easy invoicing method.
Read more…Build a Focus System for Better Work/Life Balance as a Web Developer
An unproductive day leads me to feel like I need to keep working. A focus system can help your days as a developer feel productive, freeing up your personal time for things you enjoy.
Read more…The Most Valuable Skill for Web Developers
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The most valuable skill for web developers isnʼt Javascript, algorithms, or data structures. Instead, itʼs something thatʼs directly tied to why we get paid to do this.
Read more…How do I know if I'm ready for my first web development job?
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Unpacking this questions reveals a few different fears that drives it. Iʼll outline those, test the assumptions theyʼre based on, and answer them.
Read more…How to Get Your First Freelance Web Development Job
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Hereʼs what you need to make sure you have in place before you start looking for your first freelance web development gig and where to start looking when youʼre ready.
Read more…Should a web developer build their portfolio site from scratch?
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Most new developers feel that they lose credibility by using off-the-shelf components and libraries in their portfolios now that they know how to build everything themselves. Is that actually the case?
Read more…Woo Clients By Showing Instead of Telling
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Telling a prospect how great a web developer you are is way easier than actually being great. Thatʼs why showing what you can do is more powerful. Hereʼs how I used this to get an early client.
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