[thelist] Roping clients
Palyne Gaenir
palyne at sciencehorizon.com
Wed Jul 12 01:54:16 CDT 2000
freeagent.com - freelancers.net - there may be others.
You can also let agencies know you work on contracts from home.
Or you can take the route I took (which I don't know that I'd
recommend) -- teach yourself while doing sites for little or nothing,
and after some period of starving you'll have some knowledge and a
client base, and then you can have a 'real' job. Personally... if I
had to do it over again... I'd visit the web sites above. :-)
Re: how to get those 'free' clients -- you must be kidding. My god,
everybody wants something for free. In my case, I didn't start doing
it for others. I was interested in a scientific subject, and I asked
some PhD's for permission to put their papers on a site I made for
myself. In the end the site didn't fly (not enough principals would
contribute), but I made nice splash pages for those I had papers for,
linked their papers to it, and there you go, they had a web site all
their own, didn't cost them anything, and I had a few clients out of
the gate, and we were all happy. In fact the first web site I *ever*
made, for one of those PhDs, this guy has got me tons of business
over the years. Another PhD I did a paper for, for her own website,
later referred me to the biggest contract I ever got. It's more than
doing work; it's establishing a good relationship with everybody you
talk with about the subject. Word of mouth goes a long way in my
reality.
There are lots of groups that would love sites -- from help groups
that might like discussion boards and libraries, to cubscouts or
churches, even your favorite restaurant. What about a web page
featuring the volunteer fire dept.? -- might get that in the paper.
The list is endless.
Palyne
On 11 Jul 2000, at 20:28, Daniel McMurray wrote:
How does one go about getting clients?
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