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Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this Hasty Treat (Short episode) we answer your questions about Freelancing - how to charge more, building a portfolio, finding clients and our thoughts on using pre-made WordPress themes.
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Show Notes
1:00
4:00
- Q: Ideas on building a portfolio and landing those first customers
- Your portfolio doesn't really matter as a web developer
- Your reputation and referrals is key
- Reputation in the community is important
- Put yourself out there!
- You have to tell people what you do
- You have to ask people if they need work
- Good communication is key
8:00
- Q: What are some strategies for budging and quoting?
- Understanding what a website is worth to a client
- Talking to your client ablut pricing
- Asking how much they have available to spend
- Chunking the project into multiple bits so they can build on it
14:00
- Q: How do you tell your existing clients that you need to charge more?
- Clean Scope / Scope Creep
- Quote in Features and pieces, not entire projects
- Fixed Pricing
- Becoming a better/faster developer
- Getting more expensive as you move
- Don't charge hourly
- Taking big Ls
18:30
- Q: What is your opinion on value based pricing?
- We're huge proponents
- Clients don't like hourly billing
- The client should know what you are paying and what you are getting
22:00
- Q: When is it okay to use WordPress and pre-made themes? Is that cheating?
- The beauty of open source
- The business Wes answer
- The developer Wes answer
- Building your own starter files
- Undoing other developer's work
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there. |
| 0:06.0 | Strap yourself in and get ready. |
| 0:08.0 | Here is Scott Tolinsky and West Boss. |
| 0:10.5 | And welcome to Syntax. In this hasty treat we're going to be talking about |
| 0:16.4 | freelancing answering some questions that we received via email and |
| 0:22.2 | Twitter and all sorts of stuff just about general thoughts on different topics relating to having freelancing clients and working as a freelancer. |
| 0:31.0 | As always, with me is West Boss. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello, hello. We are trying another mini-sowed and |
| 0:38.0 | Scott and I have this massive list of topics that we would like to get through |
| 0:42.0 | and there's a lot of topics that are |
| 0:43.8 | are not beefy enough for an entire hour-long episode but would would better be |
| 0:50.5 | suited towards a mini-seode which I don't know we'll see how long this one is maybe |
| 0:54.0 | 20-25 minutes so that's exactly what we're doing here we did a huge episode on |
| 0:59.5 | freelancing a couple months back and we got a lot of follow-up questions so we are going to try |
| 1:04.2 | and tackle some of those questions that we have. This episode is sponsored by |
| 1:08.8 | Jonathan Stark's value pricing boot camp. So Jonathan Stark has this book called Hourly Billing is Nuts, |
| 1:15.4 | and he's a huge proponent of this thing called Value-based Billing. |
| 1:19.0 | We'll talk about it. |
| 1:20.6 | And that book is awesome, and I totally agree with everything he has to say and what he's doing with this podcast sponsoring is he's |
| 1:28.1 | Trying to get people to sign up for his free |
| 1:31.5 | What is it a six-day email course called Value Pricing boot camp.com, and in that he's |
| 1:38.0 | going to teach you basically the basics of how to get up and running with value-based billing rather than hourly |
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