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My Third Year Of Freelancing

Silvestar Bistrović on June 08, 2020

It is time for another yearly overview of my freelancing career: the third year. You could read the report on my first and second year, too. ...
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Jean-Michel Plourde

Do you plan on ever scaling your freelancing journey to collaborate/hire other freelancers? I too want to go freelancing and I already plan to collaborate and eventually to run as a kind of agency.

Also, I know it's a bit sensitive, but I would have liked to know more about the financial aspect of your journey, without too much detail, just the big picture. I think one of the major insensitive to go freelance is the pay.

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Silvestar Bistrović

To be honest, I often thought about running the agency, but never took the courage to do so. I don't think that is off the table, too.

I always wanted to make a product and then build the company around that. Unfortunately, every idea I got is either not good enough or already exists.

From the financial aspect, my freelancing career has been successful and exceeded my expectations.

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Jean-Michel Plourde

I've recently read Kelly Vaughn Start freelancing today ebook and its what really inspired me to really pursuit freelancing and ultimately going the agency route. I strongly recommend it, it's a gold mine.

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Pankaj Tanwar

That's great. I am also into freelancing since last 2 years, developing applications for local clients but scaling application makes me uncomfortable. I use MEAN Stack. I was wondering if you could advice me on the same.

Thanks

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Silvestar Bistrović

I don't know much about MEAN stack. The good starting point would be to ask a question here on dev.to.

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Adam Crockett 🌀 • Edited

I respect your vision and distinction in website and web app. But it's truthfully becoming a blurred line. React is great, Vue is great, Angular is great. And it sounds like you in my camp, JavaScript original is great. So I don't know how you might take this suggestion being the captain of your ship as I once was. I absolutely love lit-html being just JavaScript not pretending to be anything more and maybe you might enjoy it? Anyway have another smashing year.

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Cool

Hey, I've been planning to do freelancing with WordPress not the drag and drop one. I wanted to dive in WordPress development but I don't know what I should learn and focus.

I was wondering if you have any tips whatsoever with WordPress development

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Silvestar Bistrović • Edited

WP tips:

  1. Get familiar with WP Codex: codex.wordpress.org/.
  2. Learn all about child themes.
  3. Try starter templates. My favourite is underscores.me/.

General tips:

  1. Think about supported browsers.
  2. Think about accessibility.
  3. Break template into reusable partials.
  4. Avoid using frameworks, if possible.

Good luck!

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Madza

Could you please elaborate a bit on what are the most used online payment services clients typically prefer to use to pay for your work?

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charles1303

Thanks for this info. Always good to know more about this area of my career.

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Mohcin Bounouara

Good Job bro, keep it up

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Filip

Keep up the good work!
P.S. Like your username :)