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Panel
- Charles Max Wood
- Eric Davis
- Evan Light
- Jeff Schoolcraft
Discussion
- Elance
- Odesk
- Start local
- Be involved in the community
- User Groups
- Subcontracting
- Go to conferences
- RailsConf
- Get involved in Open Source projects
- Screencasts
- Ruby DCamp
- Join Mailing List
- Speaking at Conferences
- Write an ebook
- Freelance Switch
- Blogging
- Comment on other People’s sites
- Join and participate in forums
- Podcast
- List everyone you know and tell them you’re freelance
- Referrals
- John Jantz – The Referral Engine
- Michael Port – Book Yourself Solid
- Build systems around your marketing
- Set the expectation at the beginning that they will give you referrals
- Do a retrospective or review
- Survey your client and if they’re happy then ask for referrals
- Deliver underbudget and early
- Ask for referrals on milestones
- 33 touches (Real Estate)
- Be specific
- BNI
- Project Rescue
- Communicate well
- Set accurate expectations
- The quality of your website
- Make it easy to contact you
- Put together a well defined persona the represents the market you’re trying to reach
- Talk to other freelancers
- Talk to local companies that need staff augmentation
- Never Eat Alone
Picks
- It’s not what you read, it’s what you ignore (Eric)
- Cats trying to knock things over in my office (anti-pick) (Evan)
- CloudApp (Evan)
- RubyVis (Evan)
- RubyMotion (Jeff)
- Worth Every Penny [amazon.com] (Jeff)
- GitlabHQ (Jeff)
- Never Eat Alone (Jeff)
- Doctor Who (Chuck)
- Users’ Groups (Chuck)
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