Podcast: | (Duration: 43:59 — 50.3MB)
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)
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- (Evan)
- (Jeff)
- [amazon.com] (Jeff)
- (Jeff)
- (Jeff)
- Doctor Who (Chuck)
- Users’ Groups (Chuck)
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Great podcast.
What forum or usergroup do you recommend to connect with another rails developers?