Considering freelancing with WordPress? Worrying that your technical skills are not high enough yet? Want to know what are the most common issues the beginner freelancer developer meets with? Surprisingly, tech problems can be googled, asked about and fixed. Real pains are mostly people related.
Maria Skatova, public relations and media professional since 1997, WordPress fan since 2009 and a new freelance developer will share how she uses email writing, mind reading, and Game of Thrones knowledge when dealing with clients.
Let’s discuss the following topics:
- How to find a first client without a portfolio.
- How to deal with ‘difficult’ clients, people with non-tech background, those who don’t know what they want.
- Is it worth taking projects that other developers abandoned, or every project you see (for the portfolio, you know), or someone’s broken site.
- How much time do you need for a project, and what is your main deliverable as a freelance developer.
- And finally – if you could do only one extra thing with that client’s site – what would you choose?