Freelancing

An answer to reader’s question: How important it is for anyone who is willing to be a PHP freelancer in India to have an engineering degree?

The successful freelancers have certain characteristics, qualities and an approach to freelancing that is so different than not so successful freelancers.

Answering: Can high school students in India earn money online doing freelancing, blogging or something else instead of giving tuition to children?

The 7 key benefits of being a niche developer and freelancer are Less Competition, Increased Expertise, Higher Rates, Client Relationship, Word of Mouth, Lesser Risk, Technology Focus

It is possible for freelancers to scale up. It isn’t going to be easy but isn’t an impossible task either. You have to think differently and think out of the box. So here are 9 ways individual freelancers can take freelancing as a business and scale it up for 10x or even 100x growth trajectory.

When you have the bandwidth for a new client, you place a proposal to series of projects. If most of the clients start responding to your proposals and want to discuss things further with you, a freelancer is overloaded.

There is no general rule as to which one to choose a CMS or a framework for a better web developer freelancing career but if I had to choose one, it has to be a CMS. Want to know why?

The 7 most widely used rapid application development web frameworks in PHP are Laravel, CodeIgniter, Symfony, CakePHP, YII, PhaconPHP and Zend Framework. The question is which one is the best for a web developer freelancer?

In the plethora of ever-increasing developers, how can one stand out as a programmer and continue growing? It’s tough but isn’t impossible

Some articles have landed me with many programming jobs and clients whereas others don’t. So let us understand what kind or type of articles can bring in traffic that has more potential clients for a programming freelancer?

One can easily learn English. Here are 10 ways a freelancer can learn the English language and overcome the fear of being poor in English.

Want to speed up the performance of a portfolio website in WordPress without compromising the design. Choose from the 15 best WordPress Portfolio Themes.

A few days back I met a friend who has just started freelancing in early December of 2017. He was doing a job earlier but now has got some regular clients and some one time projects from PPH.

As a freelancer, you need to know more than just write clean code. The fact is, better developers and programmer struggle to find clients consistently whereas those who are not so good in programming often don’t. Do you wonder why?

When I quit my job in 2008, the global financial crisis made sure I planned my savings really well. So here are my 6 tips for anyone who is willing to be a freelancer and want to make the most of his or her saving before he leaves his job forever.

Here are the 9 questions every programmer and developer who aspires to be a freelancer has to ask to himself before one can embark on the journey of being a freelancer.

Answered: Can freelance developers share the code for free on their blog or as a FREE plugin if a client has hired them to develop it and has paid them for it?

Any freelancer can overcome the fear of “I Don’t Know Enough”. Here are 5 things I consider when I don’t know enough and yet want to be working for a client.

Understanding positioning from the failed project of Tata Motors aka Tata Nano and then use it to position the freelancing services rightly for better freelancing rates from clients.

Answering – How to add freelancing work experience? What should be the job title of a freelancer? How to provide references of clients? What are some of the common interview questions? What shouldn’t freelancers add to the resume?

Once money becomes the driving force to be a freelancer, the focus shifts from working on something you love to working for clients to invoice more paid hours.

As a freelancer, you need to make sure the client is at ease when he starts working with you and you should look to build an everlasting business relationship. Relationships with existing clients can help you with a lot of repeat business and referrals.

The first year of freelancing shouldn’t be to break even as a freelancer. It should be more to create a level playing field for next few years. You don’t want to rush to get clients but the first few years is the survival time with an opportunity to learn.

Freelancing isn’t all about writing a proposal on freelancing sites and wait for the clients to respond. Alternate channels to getting clients will always provide the stability one needs for a freelancing business.

Price isn’t the only factor in a proposal for it to be accepted or rejected but it is still an important factor to consider. If the best among the top proposal has to be selected and if everything else remains the same, the price can be a factor.

Can developers make more money without raising their hourly rates? The answer is YES. Let me share 6 ways to make more money without raising hourly rates.

The mistake I see in the proposals of freelancers is they write about themselves. I like to turn the table and talk about how I can be of help to the client and their business. There are certain words in the proposal that can turn things around. Changing these phrases in your proposal is the key.

Freelancers typically accept clients on a first come first serve basis but if you allow all the clients in, you may need to say NO to a client in the future you don’t want to. One should pick and choose.

Consider the proposal as an opportunity to introduce yourself, highlight the expertise and ask relevant questions to create a lasting impression in the mind of the client that you are the best-suited person to get the job done.

Freelancing is a business and one has to consider it as a business. In business, you don’t have a guarantee of a monthly income but if you want the guarantee for your career path, one can have it.

How to Be Productive. How work from home developers and freelancers stop wasting the time to be more productive by making room for these habits.

Personal branding isn’t about building a virtual professional brand profile but it is about building a personal brand with professionalism.

It is easy to drop out of college and start freelancing. But is it the right choice? Let’s take a couple of scenarios to find out.

We waste hours and hours of valuable time on social media and yet when it comes to meeting clients in person, it is considered as “too much time consuming”

One thing I learned in my college days that helped me immensely to quit my job and become a much better at freelancing is …

Why Freelancers especially the web solopreneurs aren’t paid what they are worth? The reason isn’t the competition but the perceived value of services.