Luke will be holding his first live stream on March 10th, 2021 at 7pm EST. The topic will be getting clients and running one's freelance business. The link to the stream can be found here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-leetjRFhSs8.html
The most important thing is to build a portfolio and actually even if it hurts, when you have no experience or old clients that can recommend you, maybe have a little lower prices(not a lot, our time costs money and programmers price themselves differently)...But you need to think like it's your business with 1 employee. It's not easy. If you have a job, take it step by step, try to get a part-time offer from your day job and 4h freelancing until you have a public project,because most of us are not allowed to share what projects we do at work. Wish the best to all devs.!
@@Raghudesign My public portfolio is work in progress along with the youtube channel and the blog because I did work as part-time for clients but they were all local(Romania), the only projects that I made for foreign clients are under the company that I worked for(not sure if I have the right to put them online, so I only use them on my CV when I apply). That's why I said that even if you have years of experience, the work you did at the company belongs to the company...
@Rashed Arman No, obviously the big clients search for senior developers, so those won't be for a junior because you are just not fit for the job. But there is market for all skill sets and experience. Usually juniors can find easier jobs from local businesses, because they are cheaper and since you can talk face to face with the client, the connection is different. If you want foreign clients, well, build your experience with smaller projects and add it to your portfolio or CV, depending on if you have a personal website(which by the way, also helps). Don't forget to have a github account with the projects that you are working on, even if they are just tutorials from courses or youtube, still counts as something and that you want to become a professional.The repositories don't have to be public, you can have them private and give access to technical people at interviews, if you don't want to share the code. Also one of the most important advice, don't give up if you fail to get a project, apply to multiple ones, research clients and don't stop learning. It's hard to get the ball rolling, after that it will roll by itself. I have local clients with long term relationships, just because I did a good job even if when I started I had to work more because of lack of experience, now 6-7 years later, I have projects that I just maintain and get good payment.DON'T GIVE UP, LEARN MORE EVERYDAY.
@@ProgrammingwithPeter What do you think are the best initial focuses, as far as programming languages and particular techniques and projects for a portfolio to get one's foot in the door of freelancing (even at very low pay)?
If you want to build a portfolio, just build SaaS companies and sell them if they grow. If they don't, still nice to have some outstanding ideas. Also a lot of freelance work is CMS based, so make sure you understand WP or smth similar depending on your target customers. Don't forget to ditch toxic people from your life telling you're sick if you do this - they have only bad intentions and want you to fail cause your failure makes them feel better. It sounds silly but ditching one person I knew for 9 years helped me tremendously. Now I feel free, since one year, not having anyone ruling my life.
A lot of great advice for self employed people in general. Highly recommend people watch this if they are considering freelancing, particularly the actual business side.
I’m not a coder but I do marketing freelance work with my wife as our main source of income. I do the creative stuff like marketing copy and sales. My wife does all the organizing and keeping customers happy. Sometimes you have to find a person that props up your weaknesses. This is great info. Sit down with a notebook and start putting your plan together and don’t skip any steps. Don’t just watch this for info purposes. Decide to get serious and take massive action. Nice job. Thanks for uploading this.
Could you please make a detailed video on "how to estimate cost of a web development project as a beginner"? Please do this. There are almost no videos on this topic and as a beginner developer, I find it very hard to estimate correct cost to ask for.
Definitely appreciate clarifying the scope between long term and short term business building - even though it takes more time to build for the long term, it definitely pays off in terms of working harder.
I listen to that as a podcast starting my freelancing journey from the Caribbean trying to sell to Canada and USA as an Android development. Good points made thanks.
I watched the full video. This guy knows his stuff. Talks straight to the point. This video has some really valuable info. I hope I can grow 1 year from now (at the time of posting this comment)!
This is a breathtaking video! No fluff here, for certain! Before seeing it, I thought I had a pretty impressive business plan for my software consultancy. Luke has opened my eyes to so much more. I have so much more stuff to do to get ready, but I have 3-6 months to sort it out. Planning to go live with the business in 6-9 months. Thank you, Luke.
Thanks a lot Luke for sharing such invaluable information. It's one thing to be a web developer.. But to have the courage to run a web dev business and go out guns blazing all on your own is just something else.. 😅
As a 15 year old İ started Reading html&css books ( i will Start reading Javascript After im done with html&css ) and My dream is to become a freelancer Thanks for the vid!
Can I start as a freelancer, or should I get a full-time job first then move over to freelancing? I am a self taught web designer/developer. I am torn between if I should learn more in order to be a good freelancer, or get a web dev job with the knowledge I already have(as I have focussed on the development side for about a year now). Any advice would be much appreciated
Experience is always a plus. Builds confidence if you're interviewed, looks great, etc. I would always hire someone who has a handful of sites built rather than a college grad. That seems to be the sentiment for the older cats I know too. Just tbh, I'm not really a web developer, but I've made a fair amount of money just by offering it to people where I saw the need. Of course, this is throwing up a wordpress and writing some copy, but that's the vast majority of need with small businesses. That being said, I've always done freelance-y work - writing, arbitrage, etc. It's the same skillset honestly. Finding customers aint' hard, but you have to learn how to do it, and put in the effort.
1) I am looking to be a freelance web developer 2) I learnt HTML, CSS, & JavaScript 3) I built my 1st website for a local restaurant using only HTML, CSS, & JavaScript.. oh and also some copy & paste captcha code for an application form that sends an email. Here is my question: What should I learn next? Should I learn PHP & MySQL since that will help me do some backend stuff and also since PHP is used with WordPress which I will also learn? Should I jump straight to WordPress? Should I learn a Framework like Bootstrap, Nodejs, or React? Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you for this video. I was wondering, I've learned html, css, bootstrap, mysql and php, and I've build a few school projects using them (like the game mastermind but with numbers, an interns management web app). So I was wondering if that is enough to start freelancing and to take personnal projects from clients, I have to say that I'm a bit nervous, that's why I'd like to know if anyone of you guys have some feedback/advice for me. Thanks in advance.
Why does my video show as monetized but there are no ads in it, that makes me no money, I see a lot of monetized videos with a license button under it, how is this done?
