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Finding Clients as a (Web Development) Freelancer

Per Starke on April 21, 2024

In today's post, I'm excited to share strategies and tips that have significantly boosted my freelance career. These insights are tailored for web...
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Ezekiel

Very Impressive Blog. Really made me realize what I've not been doing earlier or have been overlooking

I have a quick question though.... What's your thought about backend developers who want to go into freelance...

Should they sharpen their frontend skills to display to clients what they can do or....
...... 😕(I dont know)

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Per Starke

Thank you for the feedback that's so great to hear!

Uhh that's a really good question. I defo think it will be helpful to create nice frontends for your backends as well, so you can visually show your work to clients. But, usually clients who require backend freelancers should have at least a certain degree of knowledge about backend/frontend, so just having some kind of documentation or anything similar you can show to potential clients might be enough as well. Still, I believe frontend skills will surely be helpful in finding clients and displaying your work, even if you mainly focus on backend.

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Ezekiel

Thanks a Lot ⭐.
Will work on it right away

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Per Starke

It's cool that you immediately take action, love that. Let me know if there's anything else i can help you with!

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Per Starke

Just wanted to let you know I just published the second part of the post!

You can read it on my blog or just here on my dev.to profile!

Enjoy your day! :)

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Sahanon Phisetpakasit

Thanks for this article, really open up my perspective for freelance!.
Out of my curiosity, how did you deployed or hosted a website for a client?
Did they already had their own server or you had to handle this by yourself?

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Per Starke • Edited

That's lovely to hear!

I usually create sites with Jekyll and deploy and host them via Github Pages, so I handled that. But my clients are usually very small businesses, as that's what I focus on, larger businesses with different requirements might require different hosting as well.

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Sahanon Phisetpakasit

Thanks! Really appreciate that. Looking forward to part 2 👍.

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Per Starke

Just wanted to let you know I just published the second part of the post!

You can read it on my blog or just here on my dev.to profile!

Enjoy your day! :)

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Julian Gaston

This article is absolutely god-tier. I will have to come back in the morning and comment on the rest. You did great on this and I have learned a lot from it. I'm looking forward to more of the stuff you write. Thank you!!!

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Per Starke

Just wanted to let you know I just published the second part of the post!

You can read it on my blog or just here on my dev.to profile!

Enjoy your day! :)

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Per Starke

I'm so glad to hear you could benefit from my article!!

I'll be working on part 2 next week as well :)

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Per Starke

What are your experiences with and tips for finding clients as a Freelancer? I'd be happy to hear from you!

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Podcast Launch Strategy

Very helpful, thank you!

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Per Starke

Just wanted to let you know I just published the second part of the post!

You can read it on my blog or just here on my dev.to profile!

Enjoy your day! :)

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Per Starke

Lovely to hear that, thanks for the feedback and for reading :)