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Freelancing Roadmap

1. Self-Assessment and Skill Identification

• Identify Skills: List your skills, strengths, and areas of expertise.
• Market Research: Research the demand for your skills in the freelance market.
• Specialization: Consider specializing in a niche to stand out from the competition.

2. Building a Portfolio

• Create Samples: Develop sample projects or case studies that showcase your skills.
• Personal Projects: Work on personal projects that demonstrate your capabilities.
• Previous Work: Include any relevant work from past jobs or internships.

3. Setting Up Your Online Presence

• Professional Website: Create a professional website to showcase your portfolio, services, and contact information.
• Social Media Profiles: Optimize your LinkedIn, Twitter, and other relevant social media profiles.
• Freelance Platforms: Sign up on freelance platforms like Upwork, Fiverr, Freelancer, and others.

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Freelance Marketplaces: Upwork, Fiverr, Freelancer, Toptal

4. Creating a Strong Proposal and Pitch

• Tailored Proposals: Create customized proposals for each job application, highlighting how your skills and experience align with the client’s needs.
• Effective Pitch: Develop a compelling pitch that succinctly communicates your value proposition.

Refer to this video - 6 *real* cold pitches that have landed *real* clients

5. Finding Clients

• Freelance Platforms: Actively search and apply for jobs on freelance platforms.
• Networking: Leverage your network and attend industry events to find potential clients.
• Cold Outreach: Identify potential clients and send cold emails or messages offering your services.

Refer to this video - How I’d get freelance clients without any experience (starting from 0)

6. Building Long-term Relationships

• Client Follow-up: Follow up with clients after project completion to maintain relationships.
• Repeat Business: Offer incentives for repeat business and referrals.
• Excellent Customer Service: Provide exceptional customer service to build a strong reputation.

Support Roles Roadmap

Support roles in programming, often referred to as “ghost programmers” or “code consultants,” have emerged as a controversial practice in the tech industry. These roles involve hiring external developers to complete work assigned to an employed programmer, often without the employer’s knowledge.

Work Nature:

1. Completely remote. Less working hours
2. You’ll have to work only when your client has work, otherwise you’ll be paid for being idle.
3. Work can sometimes be confusing as you’ll have to figure out everything about the task. Clients might have very little knowledge about the domain/tech.
4. Mostly on odd times.
5. You can even work with multiple clients at once, based on your time allocation.
6. Scary in the beginning, as it requires a lot of domain understanding, and technical expertise due to the large codebases.
7. Finally, be quick to learn the terminology used by the client’s company.

How to get these Support roles?

1. Be ready to learn anything and everything that comes your way:

1. Work is not on any particular technologies. It keeps changing from client to client.
2. Be good with full stack web development concepts.
3. Mostly the jobs revolve around angular, react and Java/.net in the backend.
4. Be ready to do some work out of your domain, like writing test cases, deploying applications, solving deployment issues, etc.

2. Brag about your skills to everyone(friends, social media etc..):

1. Be vocal about your learnings.
2. Share your learnings among your friends.
3. Let them know that you are available for work. Ask them to let you know, if they find any good opportunity.

3. Make friends with people going abroad:

1. They are the ones offering these roles.
2. Be in touch with them. Ask them if any of their friends need any help with college assignments, jobs, etc.
3. Help them, whenever you can. Make a large group of connections.
4. Constantly talk to them about your learnings, roles you’re pursuing, etc.
5. Make them feel like they are in safe hands, and they can rely on you in terms of work.

4. Once you get any role:

1. Be patient, and help the clients realize what information you would like them to get from their peers. For example: what data is missing, why is this not possible, what’s the issue here etc. explain the concepts in the simplest manner possible.