 So, you're trying to be a freelance web developer in 2021 where you picked the right video. Let me explain. This video was brought to you by Digitalink Academy, your number one source for programming fast and get to that six-figure salary you desire. Our Academy have a wide range of courses including our 30-day lunch pad course series which includes SQL, Python, and JavaScript. We also have a programming interview course and a mentor membership program and much, much more. When you sign up, you get free access to our community of professional developers who are willing to help you take your career to the next level. So let's take the next step and sign up for our free seven-step guide so we can help take your career to the next level and start learning programming fast with our free seven-step guide. So click the link below and I'll see you guys in the guide. All right guys, let's jump into this topic. Everybody wants to be a freelance web developer. They feel like, hey, I can make some money on the side. I can really take my career to the next level, learn some projects, learn how to code and really put myself in a position to win. But you have to go by the right way to really put yourself in a position so that you can get these freelance development jobs and put yourself in a position to make that money and live the lifestyle you want to go. Let me tell you guys a story for a second. When I first started developing, just like any of you guys, I wanted to be a freelance web developer well. Back then, they had sites like Elance and well, Upwork was something else at the time. But it was not like it is today where it's super competitive across the board and it was more mature and established as it is today. That being said, I was able to actually get a job without necessarily showcasing my business projects as good as I would actually today. So I went into that freelance job and guys, you got to understand, yeah, the client is going to know what they want initially, but it's up to you to really translate things in a way that's going to actually scale out from a technical standpoint and be able to work because they may say, hey, I want this, but it may not be technically sound for the amount of budget they want, or it may be a lot more work on the back end to what they expect with their budget. That being said, you have to set expectations. If you don't do this, you will fail. If you don't showcase your skills in your resume, you won't even get a call back. And that's how most of you guys are going to end up. You're not going to even get to the actual negotiating stage or reviewing the project stage or anything like that. They're going to bring you in. They're going to actually interview you. They're going to find out that you don't know what you're doing and then you're not going to actually get the job. So guys, to answer your question, should you be a freelance web developer? Yes, if you've got business projects and experience, know if you don't because it's going to set you up for failure. So you're like chicken versus egg. I have no business project. I have no experience. How am I going to get a job to be able to start to be freelance? Well, you have to take the initiative. You have to do your research and build business projects. When I say business projects, I'm not talking about a calculator app or some of this other stuff that you see on some of these coding websites. I'm talking about actually looking at that company, see what kind of software they use, more than likely they have a business management software that they use as a core piece of software and they have all these additional pieces of software around it that they want to integrate with that. And usually those software is actually connected through SQL, XML documents, APIs or whatever it is. That's basically where you're going to be spending most of your time around that actual software to build integrations with it. You need to have this on your resume as a freelancer. If you're not, you're going to struggle. If you're going to eLens, you're going to any of these web platforms, you're going to see it all around the actual site as far as this requirements. And even if you don't have the experience, you're still able to do this. I teach you guys this MI7 step freelance guide below. Go ahead and sign up for that. It's free. It's going to tell you all the locations you can go to learn code for free. And then once you learn the code, the fundamentals, why you need to learn programming, then we get into the actual business projects you need to really stand out. I'm restructuring all of my courses. By the way, if you already signed up for it, go check it out again, re-sign up for it because I'm restructuring it based off of beginners. In the past, I've created my courses for somebody who's really, really, really serious about programming. And I'm finding out pretty quickly. A lot of you guys are just dabbling into it. You're not really into it 100%. So you're looking for a way to just gradually get into it. So I'm restructuring my courses around that. So go ahead and sign up for that, guys. So I got a couple of points here I want to cover. I want to make sure I cover everything properly, guys. But at the end of the day, we want to have that freelance opportunity to be able to make that money on the side or even do it full time once we get our portfolio in a way where we can actually attract the bigger clients, the high paying clients so that we can do this thing full time. And I can tell you 100% of the time, they're going to give you two. You're going to have two scenarios where you can get that freelance job. One being you may not even have experience, but you come into your interview, your resume. You have those business projects. You know how to speak their language. You're a good fit for the company. And they just want to give you a shot. And they know that, hey, based off of this resume, he got stuff on here about TMW. He got stuff on here that's talking about SQL. This is all application we use. He's a good fit. We have some chemistry when we talk. They will give you an opportunity even if you don't have any previous experience. But you have to have those business projects in place. If not, you guys only come to them with cold in hand saying, I learn cold, but I don't know how to apply it in the real world. It's going to be harder for them to take a risk on you in that situation. Not say they want, but I'm saying I want to take all risk away from them to say, hey, give me a shot when we're coming in 1099 freelance. You can drop me a drop of the hat. We don't have to commit to anything long term. And once you get that first project done for them, you meet those expectations, then your career, your freelance career, go up from there. So guys, you have to put yourself in a position to win and be a actual freelancer. So if you haven't already, go sign up for that seven step guide. And if you signed up for my seven step guide, go ahead and buy or purchase my premium courses, support the channel anyway, so that we can help take your freelance career to the next level guys, links or below for all that. I'm working on a new software guys. Bear with me. I'm still trying to figure out this software. I noticed that if I don't put it full screen, I don't see my timer. So we got to work those little logistical things out. So Bear with me. I'm still in the process of trying to learn how to do all this stuff and doing the camera angles and all that good stuff guys. So let's get back into it. Number five guys, it's so hard to build a reputation up front. When you go on these freelance platforms, you quickly notice that they can filter you out based off of your experience, your job. If you don't have any jobs, you don't have any kind of way to get your first client is going to be crucial for you guys to build your reputation. I'm not a huge fan of just solely depending on one platform or the other. I'm I got my own website, so I attract people to my website. Yeah, I do utilize the platforms to kind of get leads and showcase my skills and, you know, get logged in so I can have an account. But primarily I want multiple sources of freelance clients from different platforms, so I'm not solely 100% locked down to one because, you know, Upwork could change their rules today. FlexJob can change their rules and you can be you can lose 100% of your clients just like that. So I want to make sure I brand myself across all social medias as a freelance web developer or a developer in general so that they know what kind of problems you solve. You know, it's not that much different than being a regular 9 to 5 developer. It's just the way you find work is actually different. Instead of going into a one employer and they pay you, you know, once a week, twice a week, once a month, you got more of a contract work with multiple people and eventually you're doing the same thing. It's just a matter of how do you acquire that work? And that's really the key difference between a W2 employee or a developer and a 1099 developer. You'll hear me talking about that a lot guys and I want to make sure we do that. But at the end of the day, guys, you got to always be prospecting as a freelance developer. You're going to find pretty quickly that you're going to go from not being able to find anybody to quickly overwhelm and got too much work and having to turn people down. And the only difference is the amount of business projects that you have in the experience level. You know, your skill set, the learning to code is probably going to be similar to what it was at the beginning. You're just going to have more experience actually with the real world application side of programming, not just learning code. And that's from my years of developing. You know, back then I probably knew more, I had a wider knowledge based about code and know all the intricate details about just learning code, far as just loops or raise all that. But now it's more focused to real world projects, to what my clients are needing and all that good stuff, guys. So at the end of the day, we have to position ourselves for success. And the best way to do that is to actually start with those business projects. And again, we talk about that in my seven step freelance guide below. So we'll go ahead and jump on that and get that guys. Always be prospecting, don't depend on Fiverr and don't depend on Upwork for all of your leads. Don't get me wrong, you know, you can start with those. I can tell you right now with no experience, no business project, nothing on your resume, you will struggle. So we need to get past that. It's more competitive. And unless you really stand out, you're going to make less money than all the other ones telling you that now. So I just want to make sure I cover all my points here, make sure I didn't do anything. At the end of the day, guys, your profiles, your resumes, the interview, when you actually interview them for that job, you have to showcase your business project. And if you don't, your problem solving skills, you have to be able to do that in a real world situation. We talked about that more in my courses and my guide. And I know I want to make sure I hit home on that, guys. A lot of you guys thinking you have to have this vast knowledge of programming to really get started. No, you just have to be able to solve a specific problem for a specific company and just build off of that. That's where you're going to really stand out from a company and really put yourself in a position to win. So guys, if you haven't already, go ahead and comment below. Do you agree with me? Comment below and let's start a conversation. If you disagree with me, also comment below and go ahead and support the channel in multiple ways. You can go buy a course, you can donate. We got a lot of different ways you can actually support the channel. Like, subscribe to the content. If you have additional questions, comment below. I'm going to put a link up here right here to my seven-step guide. It's free, by the way. Go ahead and check that out and I'll see you guys in the course. Peace.