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so you're trying to be a freelance web developer in 2021 where you pick the right video let me explain [Music] this video was brought to you by digilink academy your number one source for programming fast and get to that six figure salary you desire our academy have a wide range of courses including our 30-day lunch pad course series which includes sql python and javascript we also have a programming interview course and a mentor membership program and much much more when you sign up you get free access to our community of professional developers who willing to help you take your career to the next level so let's take the next step and sign up for our free 7-step guide so we can help take your career to the next level and start learning programming fast with our free 7-step guide so click the link below and i'll see you guys in the guide all right guys let's jump into this topic everybody wanted to be a freelance web developer they figured hey i can make some money on the side i can really take my career to the next level learn some projects learn how to code and really put myself in a position to win but you have to go by the right way to really put yourself in a position so that you can get these freelance development job and put yourself in a position to make that money and live the lifestyle you want to go let me tell you guys the story for a second when i first started developing just like any of you guys i wanted to be a freelance web developer well back then they had sites like elance and uh well upwork was something else at the time but it was not like it is today where it's super competitive across the board and it was more mature and established as it is today that being said i was able to actually get a job without necessarily showcasing my business projects as good as i would actually today so i went into that uh freelance job and um guys you gotta understand yeah the client is gonna know what they want initially but it's up to you to really translate things in a way that's gonna actually scale out from a technical standpoint and be able to work because they may say hey i want this but it may not be technically sound for the amount of budget they want or it may be a lot more work on the back end to what they expect with their budget that being said you have to set expectations if you don't do this you will fail if you don't showcase your skills and your resume you won't even get a call back and that's how most you guys gonna end up you're not gonna even get to the actual negotiating stage or reviewing the project stage or any of that they're gonna bring you in they're gonna actually interview you they're gonna find out that you don't know what you're doing and then you're not going to actually get the job so guys to answer your question should you be a freelance web developer yes if you got business projects and experience no if you don't because it's going to set you up for failure so right you're like chicken versus an egg i have no prod i have no business project i have no experience how i'm going to get a job to be able to be starting to be freelance well you have to take the initiative you have to do your research and build business projects when i say business projects i'm not talking about a calculator app or some of this other stuff that you see on some of these coding websites i'm talking about actually looking at that company see what kind of software they use um more than likely they have a business management software that they use as a core piece of software and they have all these additional pieces of software around it that they want to integrate with that and usually those um softwares actually connect through sql xml documents apis or whatever that is that's basically where you're going to be spending most of your time around that actual uh software to build integrations with it you need to have this on your resume as a freelancer if you're not you're going to struggle if you go on elance you go on any of these web platforms you're gonna see it all around the um um the actual site as far as just requirements and even if you don't have the experience you're still able to do this i teach you guys this in my seven-step freelance guide below go ahead and sign up for that it's free it's gonna tell you all the locations you can go to learn code for free and then once you learn the code the fundamentals um why you need to learn programming then we get into the actual business projects you need to really stand out i'm restructuring all of my courses by the way if you already signed up for it go check it out again i resign up for it because i'm restructuring it based off of beginners i could um in the past i created my courses for somebody who's really really really serious about programming and i'm finding out pretty quickly a lot of you guys are just dabbling into it you're not really um into it 100 so you're looking for a way to uh just gradually get into it so i'm structuring my courses around that so go ahead and sign up for that guys so i got a couple of points here i want to cover i want to make sure i cover everything properly guys but at the end of the day we want to have that freelance opportunity to be able to make that money on the side or even do full time once we um get our portfolio in a way where we can actually attract the bigger clients the high paying clients so that we can do this thing full time and i can tell you a hundred percent of the time they're gonna give you two you're gonna have two scenarios where you can get that freelance job one being you may not even have experience but you come into your interview your resume you have those business projects you know how to speak their language you're a good fit for the company they just want to give you a shot and they know that hey based off of this resume he got stuff on here about tmw he got stuff on here that's talking about sql this is all application we use he's a good fit uh we have some chemistry when we talk they will give you an opportunity even if you don't have any previous experience but you have to have those business projects in place if not you guys only come to them with code in hand saying i learn code but i don't know how to apply it in the real world then it's gonna be harder for them to take a risk on you in that situation not say they want but i'm saying i want to take all risk away from them to say hey give me a shot when we're coming in 10.99 freelance you can drop me a a drop of a hat we don't have to commit to anything long term and once you get that first project done for them you meet those expectations then your career your freelance career go up from there so guys you have to put yourself in a position to win and be a actual freelancer so if you haven't already go sign up for that seven step guide and if you signed up for my seven step guide go ahead and um buy or purchase my premium courses support the channel anyway so that we can help take your freelance career to the next level guys links are below for all that i'm working on a new software guys bear with me i'm still trying to figure out this software i noticed that if i don't put it full screen i don't see my timer so we got to work though that those little logistical things out so um bear with me i'm still in the process of trying to learn how to do all this stuff and i'm doing the camera angles and all that good stuff guys so let's get back into it number five guys it's so hard to build a reputation up front um when you go on these uh freelance platforms you quickly notice that they can filter you out based off of your experience your jobs if you don't have any jobs you don't have any kind of way to get your first client it's gonna be crucial for you guys to build your reputation i'm not a huge fan of just solely depending on one platform or the other i'm uh i got my own website so i attract people to my website yeah i do utilize the platforms to kind of get leads and showcase my skills and you know get logged in so i can have an account but primarily i want multiple sources of freelance clients um from different platforms so i'm not solely a hundred percent locked down to one because you know upwork could change their rules today flex jobs can change their rules and you can be you can lose 100 of your clients just like that so i want to make sure i brand myself across all social medias as a freelance web developer developer in general so that they know what kind of problems you solve you know it's not that that much different than being a regular 10 a 9 to 5 developer it's just the way you uh find work is actually different instead of going into a one employer and they pay you you know once a week twice a week once a month you got more of a contract work with multiple people and eventually you're doing the same thing it's just a matter of how do you acquire that work and that's really the key difference between a w-2 employee or a developer and a 1099 developer you'll hear me talking about that a lot guys and i want to make sure we do that but at the end of the day guys you got to always be prospecting as a freelance developer you're gonna find pretty quickly that um you're gonna go from not being able to find anybody to quickly overwhelmed and got too much work and having to turn people down and the only difference is the amount of business projects that you have in the experience level you know your skill set the learning the code is probably going to be similar to where it was at the beginning you're just going to have more experience actually with the real world application side of programming not just learning code and that's from my years of developing you know back then i probably knew more i had a wide wider knowledge base about code and know all the intricate details about just learning code as far as loops arrays all that but now it's more focused to real-world projects to what my clients are needing and all that good stuff guys so at the end of the day we have to position ourselves for success and the best way to do that is actually start with those business projects and again we talk about that in my seven step freelance guide below so we'll go ahead and jump on that and get that guys always be prospecting don't depend on fiber and don't depend on upwork for all of your leads don't get me wrong you know you can start with those um i can tell you right now with no experience no business project nothing on your resume you will struggle so we need to get past that it's more competitive and um unless you really stand out you're going to make less money than all the other ones you know i'm telling you that now so i just want to make sure i cover all my points here make sure i didn't do anything at the end of the day guys your profiles your resumes the interview when you actually interviewing for that job you have to showcase your business projects and if you don't your problem solving skills you have to be able to do that in a real-world situation if you don't we talk about that more in my my courses in my guide and i know i'm uh want to make sure i hit home on that guys a lot of you guys thinking you have to have this vast knowledge of programming to really get started no you just have to be able to solve a specific problem for a specific company and just build off of that that's where you're going to really stand out from a company and really put yourself in a position to win so guys if you have if you haven't already go ahead and comment below do you agree with me comment below and let's start a conversation if you disagree me also comment below and um go ahead and support the channel in multiple ways you can go buy a course you can donate we got a lot of different ways you can actually support the channel like subscribe to the content if you have additional questions comment below i'm gonna put a link up here right here to my seven step guide it's free by the way go ahead 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