The easiest advice you can give someone who is looking for side web design/development work is to sign up for one of the freelance websites like ODesk, Elance or Freelancer. These sites are hugely popular, and companies or individuals will often use them when they have no options for completing a website or specific tasks. […]
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25 Feb 16
5 Techniques To SEO With Your Online Portfolio
Just like with anything else, Web design and development (and content creation) is a balancing act and there is a lot of compromise between user experience and Google results. If SEO is a big part of your marketing strategy, then it should win out most arguments about user experience. Good SEO strategy is building a […]
23 Feb 16
Google Adwords is Not A Good Monetization Strategy
If your site is ad revenue-driven, realize that you won’t get rich from Google’s ad network — Google AdSense — unless you can deliver millions of pageviews. And if you are doing millions of pageviews, you should be able to monetize better. That does not mean you can’t make good money from ad networks, but […]
23 Feb 16
Finding a Partner to Get You Web Development Jobs
If I had to pinpoint the most important step in my freelance career, it would be finding individuals to partner with that had no coding abilities. When I got started, I didn’t know anyone who had design/development work. I began answering ads in my local classifieds and through that, met some people who worked as […]
22 Feb 16
Replace Your Job With A Website
At the end of the day, it all comes down to the fact that you are just trying to make a living by doing web design or development. Sometimes, if your skills are too specific or you are getting frustrated by a lack of clients, you may want to supplement some of your time with […]
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22 Feb 16
How Many Web Projects Should You List On Your Website?
Another important issue to discuss is how you handle the projects you do get. You can get hundreds of projects in your career but still be struggling. Here is the breakdown of the number of projects you should have completed in order to be a stable freelance developer: Large projects (over $10,000): 1-3 Medium projects […]
19 Feb 16
Using Twitter To Get Web Development Clients Part 1
Here’s one idea you may have never considered. If you didn’t know this already, the vast majority of tweets are public and searchable. It used to be that you had to use a third-party website to search Twitter well, but that is not true anymore. Twitter has a very dynamic and fast search engine for […]
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19 Feb 16
Strategies To Gain U.S Based Clients
If you are a programmer from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, or any other country that is not the U.S, you may find breaking into that market difficult. If English is not your first language, or American or British English isn’t, it’s important to make sure your project bid is written in a way that shows you […]
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18 Feb 16
Example of Interview Test For Front-End Developers
Front-end web developers is a profession that is rising in popularity. If you have skills in HTML, CSS and Javascript, chances are that you are in the market for a job as a front-end developer. Often times you will need the standard online portfolio as well as a list of job history. However, many potential […]
17 Feb 16
How To Prepare For A Coding Job Interview
Landing a job in the tech field can be difficult, especially if you shooting for jobs at major companies like Facebook or Google. In fact, if you are applying to Facebook, you will be put through a series of targeted coding questions on the spot. So whereas some companies may give you a coding test […]
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