How To Become a Freelance Web Developer 2024 | Step-By-Step Guide
Summary
TLDR这段视频讲述了Chris在弗吉尼亚州加入一家初创公司的经历,以及他如何从被解雇的困境中重新站起来,创办自己的网络开发代理机构。他分享了自己如何通过在各种招聘网站上寻找潜在客户,并通过电子邮件模板向他们推销自己的服务。Chris强调了销售技能的重要性,并讲述了他如何通过招聘开发者和UI/UX设计师来扩展业务,以及他如何使用Wix Studio来提高开发效率。他鼓励观众,如果能够适应和拥抱变化,他们也能成功。
Takeaways
- 😀 加入弗吉尼亚的初创公司后,发现公司承诺的福利并不真实,如免费住房和提供汽车等。
- 🚀 意识到不能将未来交给雇主,决定自己创业,开始自己的业务。
- 🔍 主动在各大招聘网站搜索开发、UI/UX设计等职位,寻找潜在客户。
- 💌 使用模板邮件联系公司CEO或招聘经理,提供低于市场价格的服务,并附上作品集。
- 📈 强调销售技能的重要性,无论是面试还是自由职业,都需要学会销售自己。
- 📈 通过定期发送邮件来吸引潜在客户,虽然回复率低,但长期坚持会带来积累效应。
- 🛠️ 随着客户增多,开始雇佣更多开发者,包括之前指导过的人,以帮助完成项目。
- 🎨 提供的服务包括新页面建设、现有项目维护、网站更新等,但不包括从头开始构建WordPress网站。
- 🛑 倾向于使用现有模板和代码,以节省时间,避免不必要的从头开始构建。
- 🛍️ 使用Wix Studio工具来提高开发效率,该工具提供AI辅助的响应式设计和自定义后端代码功能。
- 💡 强调适应性和韧性在自由职业中的重要性,无论是面对裁员、学习新技术还是管理多样化团队。
Q & A
为什么Chris选择加入弗吉尼亚的初创公司?
-Chris选择加入初创公司是因为他被解雇后仅3天就收到了这份工作邀请,这让他感到兴奋。
Chris在加入初创公司后遇到了什么问题?
-Chris发现初创公司承诺的免费住房和车辆等福利并不真实,这让他感到失望。
Chris是如何决定开始自己的业务的?
-Chris意识到不能将自己的未来放在雇主手中,所以他决定自己创业,掌控自己的未来。
Chris的业务模式是什么?
-Chris的业务模式是提供比市场价格更实惠的开发者工作,他通过各种工作平台寻找潜在客户。
Chris如何寻找潜在客户?
-Chris会在LinkedIn、Indeed、Monster等招聘网站上搜索职位,然后找到公司的CEO或招聘经理发送电子邮件。
Chris在电子邮件中提供了哪些信息?
-Chris在电子邮件中介绍了自己和自己的网络开发代理公司,提供了作品集,并表示愿意以更低的价格提供服务。
为什么Chris认为销售技能对于自由职业者很重要?
-Chris认为销售技能是生活中不可或缺的一部分,无论是面试还是自由职业,都是在销售自己的价值。
Chris如何平衡经营网络开发代理公司和做YouTuber的工作?
-随着客户数量的增加,Chris不得不雇佣更多的人来帮助处理业务,这样他才能同时经营公司和做YouTuber。
Chris为客户提供了哪些服务?
-Chris为客户提供的服务包括建立新的着陆页、维护现有项目、更新网站等,他还聘请了一位UI/UX设计师来帮助改善网站。
Chris为什么不喜欢从头开始构建项目?
-Chris认为从头开始构建项目是浪费时间,他更倾向于使用现有的模板和代码来节省时间。
Wix Studio为Chris的业务带来了哪些好处?
-Wix Studio提供了高级AI工具,帮助设置复杂的响应式行为,简化了前端和后端的开发过程,提供了可定制的模板,加快了开发速度。
Chris如何看待在自由职业者领域中的适应性和韧性?
-Chris认为在自由职业者领域中,适应性和韧性不仅是优势,更是必需,无论是应对意外的裁员、学习新技术还是管理多样化的团队,能够灵活应对变化是他最大的资产。
Outlines
😀 创业起步与挑战
视频作者分享了自己在弗吉尼亚州加入一家初创公司的经历。在疫情期间被解雇后不久,他接受了这家初创公司的职位,但很快发现公司承诺的福利如免费住房和车辆等并未兑现。这促使他决定不再依赖雇主,而是开始自己的事业。作者介绍了自己的业务模式,即以较低的价格提供开发者的工作,并通过在各种招聘网站上寻找潜在客户,发送邮件推销自己的服务。尽管担心增加竞争,但鉴于当前的经济形势和许多人的困境,作者决定分享自己的经验。
🛠️ 业务发展与技术应用
作者详细描述了自己如何作为自由职业的网页开发者开展业务,包括维护现有网站、创建新网站、使用Wix Studio工具来提高开发效率。他强调了适应性和韧性在这一行业中的重要性,无论是面对裁员、学习新技术还是管理多样化的团队。作者还提到了使用Wix Studio的好处,如AI工具来简化响应式设计、自定义后端和前端代码的能力,以及通过使用模板来减少开发时间。此外,作者分享了自己如何通过展示前后对比照片来吸引新客户,并强调了在当前经济形势下节省成本的重要性。
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Keywords
💡创业
💡开发者
💡自由职业
💡销售
💡客户
💡团队
💡Wix Studio
💡响应式设计
💡UI/UX设计
💡适应性
Highlights
3年前,Chris在疫情期间被解雇后3天,收到了弗吉尼亚一家初创公司的职位邀请。
加入初创公司后,Chris发现公司承诺的免费住房和车辆等福利并不真实。
Chris意识到不能将自己的未来寄托在雇主身上,决定自己创业。
Chris通过在各种招聘网站上寻找工作机会,然后直接联系公司CEO推销自己的服务。
Chris提供的服务价格远低于市场,以此吸引客户。
Chris强调销售技巧对于自由职业者至关重要,无论是面试还是自我推销。
随着客户数量的增加,Chris不得不雇佣更多的开发人员来帮助完成项目。
Chris的团队不仅仅局限于开发新网站,还包括维护现有项目和更新网站内容。
Chris聘请了一位经验丰富的UI/UX设计师来帮助改善客户网站的用户体验。
Chris避免从头开始构建网站,而是尽可能地重用现有模板和代码。
Chris使用Wix Studio工具来提高开发效率,该工具具有先进的AI功能。
Wix Studio允许Chris编写自定义的前端和后端代码,以扩展Wix的功能。
Chris通过Wix Studio的模板快速启动项目,大大减少了开发时间。
Chris的团队还利用Wix Studio的交互式设计功能为客户网站增加互动性。
Chris认为,作为自由职业者,适应性和韧性不仅是优势,更是必需。
Chris鼓励观众,如果他能做到,那么观众也能做到。
Transcripts
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over 3 years ago I joined a startup in
Virginia when I received this job offer
to join the startup I was excited
because they gave me a new job offer
only 3 days after being laid off from my
job during the pandemic however I soon
realized that after joining the startup
everything they use to learn me to move
in the middle of nowhere was not true
from Free Housing to Chris if you moved
here you won't even need to buy a car I
have a bunch of cars you can use all
these things that they said would be
true wasn't and it sucked because when I
say I moved to the middle of nowhere I
mean literally the middle of nowhere at
the time that I moved to the city they
had a population of 17,000 people and
after this happened I realized I need to
stop putting my future in the hands of
my employer but put my future in my own
hands so in results I decided to start
my own business some people might be
wondering Chris why didn't you share
this with us earlier why didn't you
share this with us sooner one of the
reasons is because I knew I have a
following I know that people listen to
me and I knew that by sharing this with
you I'll have more competition but given
the current economy given all the
comments and the people I'm mentoring
that reaching out to me who are also
struggling I feel the urge that I need
to share this with y'all too so then
what exactly do I do I pretty much do
the work of a developer but at a much
more affordable price and here's how I
do it I go to every job board you could
imagine LinkedIn indeed this site forly
known as Monster and literally every job
site you can think of and so what I do
is I search for roles like fun and
developer UI ux designer Etc and then
once I find a role I think my company
can fulfill I then search for the CEO of
the company send emails to either the
hiring manager or whoever I can find on
the internet with this following
template hey my name is Chris and I run
a web development agency I see that
you're looking for this or that given
opportunities I would love to do this
for you at a fraction of the price
here's my portfolio and what I've done
for other companies which I'd also love
to do for you I literally email this to
as many people as possible this is what
you call called emails which is also
what you call sales we need all the
sales we can get if you want to be a
freelance web developer if you want to
make money on your own without a normal
9-5 job the one thing you have to make
sure that you learn is sales that is
literally the part of everything in life
even when you're interviewing what are
you doing you're literally selling your
value to that company you're trying to
sell yourself to them as in this is how
valuable I am and this is what you'll be
losing out on if you don't hire me right
and so I literally would send this to
people every single week and yes only a
few people will get back to me very few
to be honest very very few but that very
few amount of people will add up over
the years years and when they do get
back to me is when I finally send over
my rates this could be either through
via email or if I'm able to get them on
a oneone call and talk about it that way
which I always prefer because that's
when I can get a better picture and
better understanding of exactly what
they're looking for now as many of you
probably know it is not easy running a
web development agency and doing YouTube
at the same time so of course as I grew
grew my list of clients that I work with
customers I obviously had to hire more
people which is why I've been able to do
this while working a full-time 95 job
that's why I've been able to do this
while doing YouTube at the same time all
right so now y'all know what I do now
this isn't easy it it's honestly
extremely hard you have to learn how to
deal with customers with their
complaints you have to go above and
beyond for customers whether you want to
or not to make sure you keep those
customers down the line this isn't easy
whatsoever which is why I actually hired
a few developers to help help me with
this right actually ended up being some
of the people that I even Mentor that I
ended up taking on as my contractors who
helped me build these projects for my
clients now I'm sure you're probably
wondering okay Chris what do you
actually do for these clients well it
really depends on what they're looking
for I do try to do it all except for
WordPress but again it is just a
preference right maybe you like
WordPress WordPress in general can make
you a lot of money it's just it's just
not for me it's not you it's
me
so what we do is almost anything from
building new landing pages maintaining
any projects that already exists to
updating things like the website
actually I even hired a a web designer a
really good web designer that I've
worked with for many years to help me
clean up websites that already exist
right as a lot of my clients do now
don't have a good uiux designer and so I
actually brought in a uiio x designer
contractor onto my team to help me
Rebrand their entire website which has
been huge for people especially in my
portfolio where there's a before and
after pictures of what I've done for
previous clients that is one of the
biggest things that's helped me actually
gain new clients but I'd say second to
maintaining what already exists creating
new websites from landing pages to lead
generation and so on is actually a huge
majority of what I do now now one thing
I've learned is I no longer want to
build things from scratch if at all ever
possible I want to reuse a template that
already exists I want to use code that
already exists it just saves time
there's no point for building things
from scratch anymore which is actually
why I actually use something called Wick
studio with my developers by the way
Wick studio is the sponsor for this
video their support makes it possible
for me to do this full-time which means
more awesome content for you guys big
thanks to Wick studio for this so Wick
studio is a tool that enhances the
development process they have an
advanced AI tool that enables setting up
complex responsive Behavior seamlessly
allowing our websites to look stunning
on every device for in instance I had a
client who needed a portfolio site that
looked Flawless on both mobile and
desktop with Wick Studio AI tool I was
able to set up responsive elements like
image Galleries and text blocks that
automatically adjusted to screen size
saving hours of manual tweaking if
you're a friend a developer who's done a
ton of CSS you know what I mean I love
Wick studio for the speed but if I have
a really specific client request I can
write all the front end JavaScript and
backend that I want talking about
backend they simplify the backend
process for me number one they do this
by having the very own Wix IDE that
allows me to write custom backend and
front end code to extend Wix and create
any business logic not provided out of
the box and secondly it allows me to
manage site and Page functionalities
pretty effortlessly and this was a
lifesaver when I was working on a
multi-page e-commerce site allowing me
to easily integrate and manage user
accounts product list things and
transactions without getting bogged down
in complex back and coding and obviously
speed is crucial in this business which
is why I'm so thankful for the
customizable templates they provide a
solid starting point for projects
significantly reducing development time
for example when launching a marketing
campaign for a local cafe we use one of
Wick Studio's templates as a foundation
and customize it to fit the Cafe's
branding and style all within a tight
deadline which saved me money obviously
stand now more than ever you need to
understand the importance of saving
money now I've hired a junior developer
for my team and their interactive design
features are key for her when building
engaging websites for example they offer
a range of features to add interactivity
pretty easily this came in handy for a
recent project where we needed to
integrate interactive surveys and quizes
into website enhancing user engagement
without needing complex coding so that's
the rundown of how I car my path as a
freelance web developer it's been a
journey of ups and downs of learning and
adapting one thing I've realized is that
in this line of work being adaptable and
resilient isn't just an advantage it's
an necessity whether it's dealing with
unexpected layoffs learning new
technologies or managing a diverse team
the ability to Pivot and embrace change
has been my biggest asset and a if I can
do it so can you
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