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we've all been there we built our first
website or mobile app and we immediately
started looking for ways to monetize our
new skill
which seems easy enough if you have a
college degree or prior work experience
but what if you don't what are the
options when it comes to making money
from programming
with no credibility whatsoever sooner or
later you're going to find this thing
called
freelance programming and you're going
to want to do it
but you might not really even understand
what it is being a freelance programmer
means you get to work on a whole bunch
of different projects
whether it's for companies or just
people and sometimes you might even be
able to work at
a few companies at the same time but how
is that
possible well it's because you're not
really an employee
you're just contracted to do some work
and when the contract's over
you move on to your next project it
sounds cool right
you get to run around doing whatever you
want working wherever you want
but wait a second how do you get started
how do you get these contracts
recently i've been seeing other videos
and articles
and it seems to me that people have
misconceptions
about freelance programming and i feel
like a pretty good voice on this topic
just because i have so much
freelance programming experience and i
was able to make
good money meaning 50 an hour plus
from freelance programming which is
probably what people want to make
and it's confusing right to get clients
unless your parents are rich
and they have rich friends who all
own businesses that need software to
operate
but that's probably a pretty rare case
and you're probably just a regular
person like me
trying to make some money from a skill
you have
so do you just get on your phone and
start calling local restaurants and
coffee shops
asking them if they need a website well
you could but
that's probably going to be just as
effective as
opening up a phone book and cold calling
random people to find a relationship
if you really want to find a
relationship you need to go out meet
people
maybe meet someone through mutual
friends or
as an alternative you could use a dating
site
or in this case you could use a
freelancing website
you know because we're not dating we're
freelancing the only sites that i would
recommend
are upwork fiverr and people per hour
these sites are the most intuitive they
have great user interfaces
and actual projects whereas on other
websites
there is a lot of scammers and spammers
not to say you won't run into those
kinds of people still
but it's less typical on
the websites i just listed so you make
your profiles you set everything up
and you have to start bidding on
projects on upwork and people per hour
people are posting projects and they
want very cheap labor
usually startups are going to be looking
for cheap labor
because they can't afford to go out and
spend a hundred thousand dollars on a
mobile application
and hundreds of people are applying to
each listing
so it's very competitive that's where
you need to separate yourself
you need to stand out so that you can
win the project
what made me different is i speak fluent
english and
i was willing to give my clients a
constant line of communication
i would give them my cell phone and my
email and i said you could call and text
me whenever you want
and we could hop on video chat and talk
about making changes
at any time and that right there is a
huge advantage
over 99 of the people you'll be
competing with
so what i would do is i would pitch
myself i write a few paragraphs out
i talk about my past accomplishments
qualifications
and how i'm just passionate about
programming and i like to do
quality work and i like to have good
relationships with people
and then in the final paragraph i talk
about communication how important it is
to me
and how that's the difference between me
and my competition
and if they would just give me 10 to 15
minutes on video chat we could talk
through everything
and see if it was a good fit for the
both of us now imagine if you were on
the other end of that application
if it's thoughtful compelling and very
different from the rest of the
applications
you might give me a chance it's just a
10 to 15 minute video chat
and during that video chat i'll explain
to you
how it's worth it to go with me and i
convince them simply because i care
about what i do
and i care about my reputation and if
you're confident enough in that video
chat
and you're presentable then they're
gonna give you a chance
so to summarize what you do is you write
a compelling application for these job
listings
and just ask to get on video chat and
you spam that
to all of the projects that have
potential
potential meaning it looks like you
could get paid a good amount
to do the work and the work looks
interesting to you
now there are some horrible project
listings right people that don't have
that much money
that have these ideas that they think
are going to be
big software hits and make them a ton of
money and all they have to do is go to
upwork and people per hour
you want to avoid those you want to find
a professional looking
project so now what if they want to move
forward with you for the project
but it doesn't pay exactly what you want
i struggle with this at first because i
went from making
forty dollars an hour to freelancing
and i didn't want to make less than that
otherwise i would just
stay in industry so i made sure that i
was making more than that
i would talk through in detail the
projects
whether it's a five thousand dollar
project a five hundred 500
project or a 20 000 project
you need to consider how much it would
cost for this software to be built
by any team of professionals and you
could certainly undercut that price
but you want to keep that value in mind
so that you can explain it to
whoever listed this project you could
walk through this project in detail with
your client
and you could explain how they're not
going to get
this built in good quality somewhere for
the price that you're giving them
don't ever be afraid to ask for more
because if they don't like it you'll be
able to tell
and then go down so kind of feel the
client out
remember this is negotiating there are
like i said
a lot of wealthy people that just need
software built
for their online businesses these people
are willing to pay
more for a good quality product so walk
through
talk about how you'll make a contract if
it's long term of course
where you have milestones and for each
milestone
you'll get a payment you don't want to
get paid after one or two months
and have everything fall apart and not
get any money some clients
if you're not business savvy will take
advantage of you and try to get more
work out of you for free
so make sure you have a section in the
contract where you talk about extra work
and if extra features need to be
implemented the client will have to pay
you more
now don't go overboard with this if they
need small changes you should be willing
to do these
for free to keep the good relationship
with the client
because they might come back later for
future work
or they might recommend you to others
like their friends
over time as you build projects you'll
also build a portfolio which you should
keep a website for
your profiles will grow on these
websites you'll have five star ratings
good feedback hopefully and you'll be
able to set up your fiverr account
and you should be able to make a living
so why don't i make a living doing
freelancing
well i did it for a while and i didn't
end up enjoying it as much as i thought
i would
it turns out a huge portion of this is
business with marketing and sales
negotiating you do almost as much emails
and calls
as you do programming so if you're not
business savvy
and you're not good at communicating
that might be a major reason
why you're not successful with freelance
programming
but if you do enjoy business
self-employment going around from
project to project
kind of just working on tons of
different things at once
freelance programming might be for you
so hopefully you guys learned a little
bit about freelance programming from
this video
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