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That's what I am thinking right now

I need help. Do you have alternatives to the nextdoor app. Its not available in my country South Africa. I build fullstack websites and do graphic design work but I have no where to advertise. Would instagram work? Any advice for me?

Good stuff! Thanks for the tips while I’m still learning.

Thank you tech dad for sharing this! I am experiencing this right now, but now I do not feel alone

Tech Dad as someone who does freelance full time how do you cover medical expenses without medical insurance?

Great video man

Just to add on what Tech Dad says: I have a full time job AND I freelance. Don't think that freelancing is some magic solution. It's a ton of hard work, worry, crazy hours and you still need to make sure you have income to make ends meet. If you embark on the freelancing journey - be ready to worry about money a *LOT*. Some months I wonder what will happen. So yeah - be ready. It's hard work, effort and insanity. Cheers!

just you need it's laptop and internet. You are ready to work from anywhere in the world.

The same happened with me recently, I needed money so I got the client that my teammates told me to not take. Then things got slow, and that was horrible but good learning.

Thanks for sharing your experience!!

Idk if contracts are the answer, if someone doesn't want to pay, a contract won't stop them. Most of the time, (in my experience), if they don't pay it's because they just don't have the money. But IMO where you went wrong was having a client ask for a discount and you obliged. I'm imagining because you need the money, which makes sense. So here's a few solutions that I've found for this problem. 1. Don't take on clients that want a deal, usually they want to pay the least and expect the most. 2. If I REALLY need the money and don't want to turn a client down, I just break down what I can do. So you said you do web-dev, I'd say okay, so I charge 1k for this. But since you can only do $500, we can cut out these things (list them) since you don't need them right now. Then I would turn this into a benefit, by saying "Okay so we can cut X, X, X things from the package, bringing the price to $500. Those extra things are important, but it doesn't sound like you need them right now. Cutting them out will get you a functional website faster and then we can build on it later." Offering a price change this way, A) doesn't devalue your service B) Gets you working together, (it's easier to upsell an existing client than find a whole new client) C) Prevents you from doing a ton of extra work 3. I always use the word "fair" when I negotiate. I will literally say to a client, does this sound "fair?" and I will mention the word often "I want to make sure everything is a fair exchange of value." I use this word a lot because it's honest PLUS it also protects me later because if I feel like I'm working for nothing, I will say to the client; "I feel like the work has become an unfair exchange of value, I'm okay with doing X for you, but this extra (list the extra stuff that takes more time) doesn't feel fair on my end." And then just see what they say. If they say no, etc, then cut the relationship. Then last but not least, just find more clients. Wasting time on a shit client, when you could have fired them and spent that free time (and free brain power) to prospect for new clients.

Great advice for any business. Have a contract. Even if it is just barebones. Try to include a SOW as well (Scope of Work) even for smaller projects to indicate and agree on what will be completed and when.

Some freelancers break it down in three stages. Design payment Website dev payment Delivery final payment. If u complete the design part and things fall aprt u should have a non-refund fee and give them the design files. Ur time and talent is worth money.

Good advice. I had my fair share too! These are the best lessons to learn so one knows how to avoid it

This is what I'm most scared of in starting a dev shop, tbh.

More power to you!

Hey uncle Will very proud of you man!

From London here, you may call yourself a regular guy but your impact extraordinary! I hope your mesaage grows to millions!

Wow is coding no longer needed?

I charge my clients $50 for their landing page 😅

i'm so proud for you, dude! you've got all the love from us here

So inspiring man. Little did you know back then that you'll end up touching the lives of people such as myself that you've never even met and inspiring us to be consistent and dedicated to our mission. You opened my eyes to other possibilities of achieving my goal of making money in web dev by going the freelancing route instead of still struggling to find a job. Keep up the great work brother.

Effective approach

great insights man

Much love brother keep going! You got this & let me know if you need anything man. Sorry again.

Thanks for your story and words.

Thank you ! Currently learning code on my free time and working full time on engines under my father in law. I related with your past and i am still tryna remove myself from a meth addiction but like you said replacing the desire for a drug and replacing it with something greater can benefit 10x as more but yeah thanks for this video !

I know coding, I have 7 years experiment but I have problem about finding customers. What is the best advice for me?

Big love brother, thoughts are with you and your family

bro your boy from berlin here. unfortunately i missed this video online from the timezone. But have you tried webflow?

Oh cool!

Thx