The Ruby Freelancer Show 014 – Finding Clients that Can Pay

by woody2shoes on May 11, 2012

Panel

  • Charles Max Wood (   )
  • Eric Davis (  )
  • Evan Light (  )
  • Jeff Schoolcraft (  )

Discussion

  • Start local
  • Be involved in the community
  • User Groups
  • Subcontracting
  • Go to conferences
  • Get involved in Open Source projects
  • Screencasts
  • Ruby DCamp
  • Join Mailing List
  • Speaking at Conferences
  • Write an ebook
  • 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
  • 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

Picks

  • (Eric)
  • Cats trying to knock things over in my office (anti-pick) (Evan)
  • (Evan)
  • (Evan)
  • (Jeff)
  • [amazon.com] (Jeff)
  • (Jeff)
  • (Jeff)
  • Doctor Who (Chuck)
  • Users’ Groups (Chuck)

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June 3, 2012 at 12:29 am

Great podcast.
What forum or usergroup do you recommend to connect with another rails developers?

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