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Discussion on: COVID Ruined Freelancing

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Darryl D.

I'll take my dev hat off for a moment...

From a positioning perspective, if you've been freelancing for a long time, don't use the platforms to scale. Use them to springboard into something with no ceiling. The platforms come with pros and cons.

Imagine treating Linkedin as, let's say Upwork. Everyone is flocking to Upwork because they don't have the same level of experience that you have.

Zig when everyone zags... learn other platforms, find a more direct source to your audience, learn to do direct humane outreach, etc.

How this vantage point helps! I also agree the flood of newly found freelancers is very real.

ps - you know how to use the platforms better than most. Teach the ppl flocking on how to achieve what you archived. This is the norm now. Take advantage of your past experiences.

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Besworks

This is exactly what I was thinking about today. I should be building a team of junior devs and imparting my wisdom on them. Lately I've been crushing the Stack Overflow bounty board and it made me realize that I could be profiting from this kind of thing instead of giving it away for just rep.

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Frank Font • Edited

Besworks, we'd love it if you could find a way to capture some of the knowledge into mission diagrams that others would learn from. Let me know if you'd like me to explain. The site we put together is twigflo.com and we think it is something different from the norm.

Being different is especially important now.