rmcastil

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by rmcastil 11y ago
I get what you're saying. HN is known as a place to generate traffic for your product. After all, that's why I posted it here.
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7 Recurring Revenue Recipes for Freelancers(ryancastillo.org)
5 points by rmcastil 11y ago|2 comments
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A $24,420.00 Support Contract(ryancastillo.org)
1 points by rmcastil 11y ago|0 comments
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by rmcastil 11y ago
Completely agree with the premise of this article. I'd even put communication slightly ahead of technical aptitude in the skills required to freelance. I've just seen so many freelancers fall on their face because they built out w
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Growing ConvertKit to $5,020 in Monthly Recurring Revenue(nathanbarry.com)
5 points by rmcastil 12y ago|0 comments
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by rmcastil 12y ago
Here's the source regarding being able to make money on elance: http://copyhackers.com/2014/12/how-to-earn-on-elance/
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by rmcastil 12y ago
Lean how to sell. When I was in college I got frustrated at not having software dev opportunities and only opportunities working at the mall (I went to college right after the dot com bubble). This curse ended up becoming a blessing because
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by rmcastil 12y ago
A lot of salary negotiation and asking comes down to preparation. It's terrifying to ask for one the first time but it's a natural part of employment. The basic principal behind hiring an employee is that they will become a financ
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by rmcastil 12y ago
Great copy! My only issue is with the "How I Can Fix Your SQL Server Woes". Everything prior is the right level on the ladder of abstraction. This section needs to be more specific though since it is the last area besides the test
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by rmcastil 12y ago
Actually this isn't my article. It's just something I encountered while doing research for my guide.
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by rmcastil 12y ago
First I just have to say this was titled "How I launched a productized consulting service in 2 days that brought $15,450 worth of work in the first month" but that was a little long for HN :) There are just a ton of things to lear
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How I launched a productized consulting service that brought $15,450 in a month(studiofellow.com)
4 points by rmcastil 12y ago|3 comments
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by rmcastil 12y ago
> I assume that these things should be obvious. I'm glad that you've gotten so many takeaways but be very mindful of this. As you've said you didn't see a lot of these things when you just started out. It's thro
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by rmcastil 12y ago
It's never too late to switch or alter the direction of your profession. Plus you're asking for help which means you're moving in the right direction. It sounds like you're at a bit of a crossroads. The first thing I&#x2
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by rmcastil 12y ago
This all depends on the environment you're working in. When we used to do lunch and learns they were on Fridays which were blocked off for side projects. Plus half the time we did lunches it was as a team and we always ended up talking
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by rmcastil 12y ago
You need to stop thinking of them as 'coders'. When you think of them that way, you're putting them in a box and limiting them. Instead consider them to be a team of people. As you said, each of them are at different stages i
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by rmcastil 12y ago
> what would you do when your gf/bf/wife/husband complains about it? When my wife complains about it, I just listen. She's also a working professional who works a ton more than I do so it's usually a red flag if
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by rmcastil 12y ago
Exactly. In one case I was associated with the work was done with a collaborative research grant. A laboratory had the need for a custom Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). We built the software as they specified but retained o
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by rmcastil 12y ago
As pistoriusp alluded to I'm just trying to gauge interest. But to give you more details these are the things I'm focusing on with the book: 1. Word of mouth referrals. This is the old school way to get recurring revenue. But I&#x
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by rmcastil 12y ago
Author here. You're exactly correct. I have a ton of drafts on the book so far. But nothing I'm ready to release yet. I've actually been sitting on this landing page for months and was convinced to push it out.
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by rmcastil 12y ago
Another way to approach this is to ask what they consider a day to be? Is it sitting in the chair from 9 to 5? Is it just doing a certain number of features in a day? Does it involve doing support after hours? Considering that they are aski
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by rmcastil 12y ago
I'm hoping so. I got a MS degree in Bioinformatics and for the past three years the only role it has served is collecting dust in my closet upstairs :) I was the young bioinformatician in 2006 and when working in a lab it felt very iso
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by rmcastil 12y ago
I submitted this several weeks ago but I ended up rewriting the entire article due to the walls of text. My writing is still a work in progress :)
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Figure out your client's budget before giving them your rate(ryancastillo.org)
1 points by rmcastil 12y ago|1 comments
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Stop Leaving Money on the Table with Your Freelance Rate(ryancastillo.org)
2 points by rmcastil 12y ago|0 comments
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I Took Last Place in the Crossfit Games Open(crossfitindustrious.com)
2 points by rmcastil 12y ago|0 comments
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by rmcastil 12y ago
This is the exact same thing I do. In fact I wrote a little shell script ( https://github.com/rmcastil/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/gtd ) that I use once a day to get everything organized. It opens up al
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by rmcastil 12y ago
I had a hard time just getting over 22h per week. Its one of the reasons I switched to weekly billing. On average a lot of the legit consultancies (not including recruiter shops) ask their employees to bill 32h per week.
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by rmcastil 12y ago
Its part of the initial conversation you have clients. The goal with the initial meeting isn't to focus on how you can fix all their problems with technology, it's to focus on truly understanding the problems they have from their
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by rmcastil 12y ago
> A rule of thumb I've found that can be accurate is you should/can charge about $10/hr for every year of experience you have, and should be working for clients or employers that see value in paying for that kind of experi

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