There is also a strange obsession with consulting. How do you find customers that aren't mom and pop shops looking for someone to build their site for $200?
Write online, ask your friends to refer clients, ask people for work at meetups/conferences, cold call and email companies, look up the dozen remote job boards that crop up every other week, subscribe to every industry mailing list you can.
There are about a 1000 ways to do it. But you have to actually do it.
Here's a business plan: someone build a site for us developers who despise marketing and/or who suck at it.
(I mean, if I loved marketing, I would have become a marketer).
Pair us with someone who loves marketing. S/he finds high-paying consulting jobs, I build awesome sites and/or mobile apps, and we split all the income 50%/50%, minus fees for the company.
Have some kind of rating system, where both your peers and customers rate your work. The higher that you are rated, the better marketer you can get paired with. I imagine the top marketing experts could find clients willing to pay $1000/hr rates for the top developers.
Cold call and email what companies? About what work? I doubt most of the mid-sized and big companies will hire a contractor with no recommendations from someone close to the execs.
I am not nitpicking, just sharing that what you've suggested works only for very experienced people with a big network. I am still in University.
revorad|11 years ago
There are about a 1000 ways to do it. But you have to actually do it.
jnbiche|11 years ago
(I mean, if I loved marketing, I would have become a marketer).
Pair us with someone who loves marketing. S/he finds high-paying consulting jobs, I build awesome sites and/or mobile apps, and we split all the income 50%/50%, minus fees for the company.
Have some kind of rating system, where both your peers and customers rate your work. The higher that you are rated, the better marketer you can get paired with. I imagine the top marketing experts could find clients willing to pay $1000/hr rates for the top developers.
purringmeow|11 years ago
I am not nitpicking, just sharing that what you've suggested works only for very experienced people with a big network. I am still in University.