Re:Freelancing: A 6-Month Retrospective
by autarch on Sunday July 08, 2012 @03:31PM
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Without knowing what his income goals are, it's hard to know how well this would work for others. Most people can't easily charge more than $100 per hour for consulting, unless you have niche, in-demand skills, or are notably above-average in skills and you can back that up somehow (like you wrote a major FS/OSS tool that people know about).
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Re:Freelancing: A 6-Month Retrospective
by mrooney7828 on Sunday July 08, 2012 @04:21PM
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Pretty much anyone will have specific experience that they can market themselves for. Just think about what you've done in your past few jobs, and you probably know more than 99% of developers in those specific areas you worked in. If you check out my About page at http://mrooney.github.com/about, you can see I'm not marketing myself just as a general web developer, as you don't stand out that way and can't charge a good rate against all the competition.