Freelance projects help

[ghostriderrr]

@ghostriderrr

There are a lot of ways to gain benefit from your skill: either you work for yourself and sell your service, provide tutorials, or teach others how to use what you know.

I was the same way as you—I bid on projects and so on—but nothing happened on my end.

decides to sell on Flippa and manages to build a high reputation profile with over $10,000 in sales by creating drop-shipping sites and automated websites. And then Flippa changed the listing fee, and that went downhill.

So I decided to create my own freelance platform and post my services there.

The "buy me a coffee" website is a good start; you can create memberships, lock videos, and so on to start providing services.

Thaks brother i'll that too...❤

 

[ghostriderrr]

I'm a LAMP stack web developer and have my own company for my freelance work (I work full time as a developer as well).
I started with gig sites like fiverr.com freelancer.com and craigslist.org I would still recommend those mainly to build your portfolio. If you don't have a good portfolio with good clients/sites then you aren't going to get work. Your location is going to matter as well, especially if you are not in the US. I got a LOT of gigs off of those sites just because I was from the US (they said that was the main hiring reason).
If you are not getting hired for gigs then you need to see what you are doing wrong. Is it your initial communication, your resume, your portfolio, your interviewing skills, your location, your hourly rate, etc Find out what is wrong and then adjust it. Feel free to reach out to people not hiring you and asking why they didn't choose you so you can work on making it better.
If you are wanting to get into web development, you NEED a good portfolio and resume. I recommend indeed.com for looking for full time or contract work.
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On a personal note/background.. I started making websites back in 1994/95.. back in the days of Angelfire and then Geocities. Around 2000 while I was in the military I got into PHP and databases and slowly started learning and building my skills, and in 2006 after I got out of the military I got a job as a junior web developer making minimum wage at a small web development company. Around that time I was doing a lot of personal projects, getting gigs, doing a ton of free and super cheap work, etc.. I was charging $10 an hour for years. I didn't care about they money so much, I cared about the experience. Slowly I was able to charge $25 an hour... then I got jobs making $60-70k a year, then I got gigs making $60-100 an hour. and I currently just started a new job making $83k a year, and turned down offers for even more. With my side work and salary I'm making well over $100k a year... and it's all from being self taught and just wanting to learn and being passionate about making websites.
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If you have the mindset that you just need to get work ASAP and make lots of money, you are never going to be successful. Put in the time and put in the work. If freelancing is your ultimate goal, then figure out how to get cheap clients while doing another kind of work - but I would recommend you keep a full time job or contract work at least for the time being.

I appreciae the way you explain your story it's inspiring and i've love to do same but now i just set my goal whatever happen i'll set to be free from the fulltime job contract based is fine ... i'll try to builf a better reputation and portfolio of mine like yours than surely i can get some better cleints on time .Thanks brother ❤

 

[Furion]

I'm a LAMP stack web developer and have my own company for my freelance work (I work full time as a developer as well).
I started with gig sites like fiverr.com freelancer.com and craigslist.org I would still recommend those mainly to build your portfolio. If you don't have a good portfolio with good clients/sites then you aren't going to get work. Your location is going to matter as well, especially if you are not in the US. I got a LOT of gigs off of those sites just because I was from the US (they said that was the main hiring reason).
If you are not getting hired for gigs then you need to see what you are doing wrong. Is it your initial communication, your resume, your portfolio, your interviewing skills, your location, your hourly rate, etc Find out what is wrong and then adjust it. Feel free to reach out to people not hiring you and asking why they didn't choose you so you can work on making it better.
If you are wanting to get into web development, you NEED a good portfolio and resume. I recommend indeed.com for looking for full time or contract work.
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On a personal note/background.. I started making websites back in 1994/95.. back in the days of Angelfire and then Geocities. Around 2000 while I was in the military I got into PHP and databases and slowly started learning and building my skills, and in 2006 after I got out of the military I got a job as a junior web developer making minimum wage at a small web development company. Around that time I was doing a lot of personal projects, getting gigs, doing a ton of free and super cheap work, etc.. I was charging $10 an hour for years. I didn't care about they money so much, I cared about the experience. Slowly I was able to charge $25 an hour... then I got jobs making $60-70k a year, then I got gigs making $60-100 an hour. and I currently just started a new job making $83k a year, and turned down offers for even more. With my side work and salary I'm making well over $100k a year... and it's all from being self taught and just wanting to learn and being passionate about making websites.
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If you have the mindset that you just need to get work ASAP and make lots of money, you are never going to be successful. Put in the time and put in the work. If freelancing is your ultimate goal, then figure out how to get cheap clients while doing another kind of work - but I would recommend you keep a full time job or contract work at least for the time being.

Almost the same story but the difference as you said location matters, in my country they won't pay you more than 20$ for a senior so in US you reach 100k/year in my case I can reach 20k/year

 

[ghostriderrr]

Almost the same story but the difference as you said location matters, in my country they won't pay you more than 20$ for a senior so you reach 100k/year in my case I can ready 12k/year

same in india even if you're a senior developer you can't get 10-15k inr annuall

 

[abda53]

Almost the same story but the difference as you said location matters, in my country they won't pay you more than 20$ for a senior so in US you reach 100k/year in my case I can reach 20k/year

same in india even if you're a senior developer you can't get 10-15k inr annuall

wow that's rough. That explains why so many devs try to work remotely in the us (oh, and scammers too lol)

Might recommendation would be to find a job with a US company/agency that specifically hires remote workers. If you know magento or other frameworks/stacks I recommend checking out https://borngroup.com they are an agency out of NY that I used to work for that does hire a lot from India and around the world. If you go the route of freelancing (or looking for jobs/gigs in general) I would address the fact that you are from ______ and that you understand the reputation the country gets from bad developers but you are very interested in the job and would like a chance to prove your worth, even if it's a lower pay to start (like a trial run) - and make sure you have a really good portfolio

 

[abda53]

Almost the same story but the difference as you said location matters, in my country they won't pay you more than 20$ for a senior so in US you reach 100k/year in my case I can reach 20k/year

same in india even if you're a senior developer you can't get 10-15k inr annuall

This randomly showed up in my articles to read.. might be helpful for you https://medium.com/javascript-in-pl...-in-5-years-here-is-how-i-did-it-bb3a2a945037

 

[ghostriderrr]

wow that's rough. That explains why so many devs try to work remotely in the us (oh, and scammers too lol)

Might recommendation would be to find a job with a US company/agency that specifically hires remote workers. If you know magento or other frameworks/stacks I recommend checking out https://borngroup.com they are an agency out of NY that I used to work for that does hire a lot from India and around the world. If you go the route of freelancing (or looking for jobs/gigs in general) I would address the fact that you are from ______ and that you understand the reputation the country gets from bad developers but you are very interested in the job and would like a chance to prove your worth, even if it's a lower pay to start (like a trial run) - and make sure you have a really good portfolio

Borngroup is an Indian company brother

 

[abda53]

Borngroup is an Indian company brother

Well it was acquired by Tech Mahindra a few years ago. It was originally a US company based out of NY. That is where their main office is.. but they hire a lot of developers from India and a lot of other non-US countries (and a lot from the US as well). They pay is very good there, at least for US workers.
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When I was working at BORN I had worked on sites for several large companies.. but the biggest one I was the lead Wordpress developer for a product line website for Intel

 

[ghostriderrr]

Well it was acquired by Tech Mahindra a few years ago. It was originally a US company based out of NY. That is where their main office is.. but they hire a lot of developers from India and a lot of other non-US countries (and a lot from the US as well). They pay is very good there, at least for US workers.
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When I was working at BORN I had worked on sites for several large companies.. but the biggest one I was the lead Wordpress developer for a product line website for Intel

wow

 

[abda53]

wow

https://careers.borngroup.com/ enjoy!

 

[julllegga]

I have been a freelancer for more than 5 years. I recommend paying attention not only to freelance or job sites in your country. Don't limit yourself to location. English-speaking specialists are always wanted all over the world. Also, pay attention to sites not only for freelancing. Apply even for those vacancies that are asked for in the office.