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Can I ask how you find contracts? Are there that many contract roles posted in public or is it due to your network?
by DeltaCoast 3y ago
Can I ask how you find contracts? Are there that many contract roles posted in public or is it due to your network?
- pxue 3y ago100k: - network 200k: - high signaled / luke warm outbound on dev communities (YC work at a startup job board is one) - referrals 300k++: - dedicated outbound tech sale person
- mylons 3y agoyou hired a sales person? can you elaborate on that?
- pxue 3y agoYeah. I have a dedicated outbound sales person who pings their network for referrals every few weeks. Their job is to weed out noise + educate + convert hourly to project based billing Went into a lot of detail on Reddit a couple years back here https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/ommiww/comment/h5mz744/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/ommiww/commen...
- tuukkah 3y ago> convert hourly to project based billing I can see how that helps in increasing revenue, but it also makes the work less agile, requires longer negotiations and adds risks. So it's probably not for everyone. Some others have found a way to bill similar amounts but on short projects billed by the day/week. That sounds preferable to me, but you need to have a skill that produces value in such short projects.
- pxue 3y agoI do it mostly for legal purposes.
- itsoktocry 3y ago>but you need to have a skill that produces value in such short projects. I assume you're a software developer? There's your skill. I think you're overthinking this. How is it less agile? You have a project, a price and a timeline. Everything between then and the end is on your schedule. The only "unintuitive" skill you need to hone is assessing value and pricing based on that. But there is endless analysis and analogies out there to help.
- satvikpendem 3y agoBased on what I've seen other people do, it's basically someone who does the lead prospecting and qualification for you. They can be paid commission or flat, but are usually paid both.
- arrowsmith 3y agoDo you work for a lot of different clients at once? How do things work day-to-day?
- freitzkriesler2 3y agoUpwork. Solely up work.
- delfinom 3y agoWow, I tried upwork but it generally always seems to be entities in significantly cheaper countries underbidding everything. How did you get started to snap up your first jobs on it?
- frankreyes 3y agoNo idea on the specifics, but the theory goes like this : clients have been burned many times over cheap solutions. Cheaper is usually more expensive on the long run. For this to break the circle you need reputation of reliability.
- freitzkriesler2 3y agoI didn't nor do I use Upwork. I'm just saying what the reality is.
- bdcravens 3y agoIf you're in the US, restricting yourself to jobs where they are limiting to the US results lessens that problem (doesn't eliminate it - I suspect there's a ton of fronting accounts)
- csomar 3y agoI've tried it on the buyer side and anything less than $50/hour can't speak proper English. It's definitively cheaper but not significantly; and if you add the struggle of going through all the profiles, then the price will match reality.
- zo1 3y agoJust wait till chatGPT hides this telling input signal. I mourn for humanity.
- ransom1538 3y ago