How to find orders for creating websites for a beginner?

Question

Freelance

Is it difficult to get the first orders for creating freelance websites?

Do I have to pay money for advertising and business accounts?

Is there any normal freelance exchange or another method of finding orders?

Answer 1

Start with your contacts. I once found clients to create a site simply by posting a status on VK that I develop sites. Some friends who eventually ordered the development responded.

Answer 2

It depends on the experience with which you came for the first order, and on your ability to negotiate. If you have been a senior in a well-known company for many years and can sell snow to the Chukchi, then orders naturally stick. If you are an obscure asocial June, then there is no chance of getting an order at all.

Answer 3

1. Not difficult at all. In my experience, you just need to have time to respond to the proposal as quickly as possible. And ALWAYS leave your contacts. And yes, never lie about your skills, it's useless. Before responding to a proposal, carefully read the TOR and you must be sure that you can do it.
2. No, not necessarily at all.
3. Here is the site where I took my first order https://www.weblancer.net/

Answer 4

I found my first order in a fl.ru contest. I lost the contest, but immediately after the contest organizer wrote and offered to make a design for their other project.
After that, I did several works for non-existent clients (it took 10 days) and began to collect the first orders literally on the very first day after the publication of the portfolio and the response to applications. Six months later, I already found one or two normal projects per day of active search.
But I don't want to go back to freelancing. And if you are interested in development, I do not recommend it. These are perpetually boring stupid projects (most) and a direct exchange of your time for money.

Answer 5

In order for you to start taking orders in the web industry, you need at least a year to gain competitive skills and experience. It's already been discussed here.
I want to be a freelancer, but where do I start?

Answer 6

First, make some demo projects as a portfolio. Then design your portfolio.
Believe me, it's for a long time.

Answer 7

1. Create something that you can demonstrate "live" BEFORE receiving an order.
2. PRO-accounts - are valued only with a good profile history. But, for the first time, you can buy for 2-3 months, just to start noticing you.

Answer 8

Two months ago we were interested in how to learn layout. A month ago we were interested in how to learn JavaScript. Today we are interested in how to take orders. Dear mediocrity, initially you need to answer the question, who needs such a low-grade specialist, and who will pay for his work? Having answered this question, I assure you, yours will disappear by itself.

Answer 9

friends familiar relatives