Do you have any advice for aspiring freelancers?

Question

Freelance

Good afternoon. Several such questions have arisen.

1. How did you do front-end work for the first time, and how much did the client pay you for your first work?
2. Is it possible to do front-end work without using back-end, and how much does such work usually cost?
3. And how is it correct to approach customers in one format or another for the first time?
4. How do you communicate with customers, what advice can you give to a newcomer?

You can, if you don't mind showing your work (portfolio links).
Already have a website but no work yet. I plan in such a way that the customer visits the site and looks at the work, and so on.
I would be grateful for helpful advice.

Answer 1

How did you do front-end work for the first time, and how much did the client pay you for your first work?

1. content site for yourself and visitors, on the topic you like.
2. The website of the company I worked for, I can't remember the cost, maybe 10,000 rubles, the website was made on the basis of a ready-made template from templatemonster.com.
Yes, but this is a more time-consuming process (a site on pure html) than the most elementary self-written engine without an admin panel or CMS (look at MODX, you can master it at the initial level in a couple of days of practice - a very convenient and thoughtful engine, business cards can be scribbled like a machine gun)
What you mean is not entirely clear.
1. Correct written speech without errors. Be courteous, polite and correct.
2. Subordination, don't put yourself first. You work for the customer, not for you. Then when you gain experience and you can get a little impudent and show off but within reasonable limits.
3. Don't use "you".
4. Do not discuss personal (outside) topics. Work is work. Then, as you gain experience, you can break this rule within reasonable limits - it is important to learn how to separate work and personal.
5. Be well organized, consistent and punctual.
6. Learn to convey your idea from the first time to the customer of any level of understanding of what you are doing together.
7. Read books on the skill of business communication, on the skill of communication in general.
8. Learn to understand people, take into account the little things in communication.
9. After you learn to understand people by making a series of mistakes, do not work with motherfuckers. Never.
Good luck!

Answer 2

I can give you one piece of advice.
Enough already creating questions about freelancing. Just go do your job and get experience.

Answer 3

I wrote about Odessa a long time ago
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Answer 4

You need to be prepared for the fact that the freelancing industry is utterly overflowing with intermediaries. In this regard, the front-end very often goes separately. Will offer to work for 3 rubles.
And before entering the market, you must already be a professional in your field - be responsible for your work and deadlines. It looks very funny when a person is just learning layout, but is already creating a website for his "web studio".

Answer 5

1. Implemented the logic of a complex pop-up with a form in a ready-made UI. 500 rubles per hour (low price, I think, helped at that time). As a result, ~4K (it took several hours + bonuses).
2. If the work involves data exchange with the server, it is better to use a real (test or even combat) server of the Client. I used to ask the Client to connect to the test server CSS / JS from my server.
3. See Alexander Taratin
's answer 4. Solve the Client's problems, not your own.
Work with Clients who don't care about specific frameworks, libraries, ... . You can use what you have.

Answer 6

Maybe it will help If you know how to do something, you will always find your job :)

Answer 7

use google)

Answer 8

Yes, don't freelance

Answer 9

It happens to me like this .
I think you will have somewhere the same in 5-7 years ...