pricing and marketing for freelancers - how to?
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Pricing and Marketing for Freelancers:
How-to?
@brianhogg
About Me
Time-Basedstop doing the work so fast...
Hourly(a.k.a. logging the 23 minute meeting
and commodity-based pricing)
Going Backwards
•current employee salary divided by 1000 hours (overhead of marketing)
•multiply by lots
•divide by π
Daily(move to the UK)
Weeklyyou == product
Fixed Price(can we just add this one simple thing?)
Value-basedROI
Retainerssmart-guy-with-root-access
Competing on Price
function call_with_client( rate ) { return rate--; }
Marketing(you’re not a “ruby developer”)
Clients“I just need a website”
Find People to Help
hard-selling not required
Testimonialswrite them yourself
Being a sub-contractor
sort-of an employee?
Networking Events and Conferences
they’re fun, and you can expense them...
Burnout
Incorporation vs Sole Proprietor
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