How To Start Freelancing in 2022! Free Software Engineering Bootcamp! (class 15) - #100Devs

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This is fifteen eleven of a 30 week software engineering bootcamp being offered on Twitch for those affected by the pandemic. It is aimed at helping folx launch a new career in software engineering with a focus on web development!
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[@Rascal_Two]

Here are timestamps for the slides, for whomever needs them: 00:01:22 Question of the Day: What is the best Pokemon starter: Grass, Fire, Water, Electric? 00:02:55 #02 Questions 00:06:00 #01 Agenda 00:08:34 #03 Checking In 00:09:23 #04 Friends? 00:10:17 #05 Submitting Work 00:11:31 #06 Want to be fancy? Best Clip 00:13:36 #07 I AM NOT A LAWYER NONE OF THIS IS LEGAL ADVICE 00:15:00 #08 I AM NOT A LAWYER AND NONE OF THIS IS LEGAL ADVICE 00:15:08 #09 I AM NOT A LAWYER AND NONE OF THIS IS LEGAL ADVICE 00:15:38 #10 I AM NOT A TAX PROFESSIONAL AND NONE OF THIS IS TAX OR FINANCIAL ADVICE 00:15:47 #11 I AM NOT A TAX PROFESSIONAL AND NONE OF THIS IS TAX OR FINANCIAL ADVICE 00:15:56 #12 Just Ramblings Of Someone Who Has Done Some Of This Stuff Before 00:17:00 #13 USA Perspective 00:18:02 #14 Why? Money & Experience 00:28:57 #15 How to play the game? 00:32:05 #16 Those that played... 00:36:47 #17 Questions? !ask 00:37:57 #18 What is freelancing? 00:40:42 #19 Freelancing means 00:41:07 #20 Other Terms 00:41:41 #21 W2 vs. 1099 00:43:17 #22 PAY YO TAXES 00:44:43 #23 Process 00:46:00 #24 1. Online Persona 00:46:05 #25 Portfolio, Twitter, Linkedin 00:48:42 #26 Portfolio Examples Blaw 00:58:41 Break Started 01:03:41 Break Ended 01:04:33 #27 Twitter Nyah 01:07:37 #28 Twitter Sam 01:09:21 #29 Linkedin Andy 01:14:10 #30 Use A Template 01:17:35 #31 Templates 01:19:59 #32 Hosting netlify.com/drop 01:22:49 #33 Domains 01:26:19 #34 2. Finding Clients 01:27:16 #35 Start Close Friends Family Social Media 01:29:12 #36 Go Local NETWORKING 01:44:32 #37 Outbound 01:46:18 #38 Go Wide 01:51:33 #39 3. Proposal 01:53:06 Break Started 01:58:06 Break Ended 01:59:40 #40 What is a proposal? 01:59:43 #41 Proposal Examples 02:01:26 #42 Real Example 02:06:38 #43 4. Contracts 02:06:52 #44 What is a contract? 02:07:02 #45 Protects Both Parties 02:09:30 #46 Contract Example 02:11:47 #47 Important Bits 02:18:13 #48 5. How To Close 02:18:42 #49 The Magic Question 02:23:35 #50 Be Firm 02:25:09 #51 Leave room to get help 02:26:53 #52 Get a deposit 02:27:02 #53 6. Deliver The Goods 02:27:08 #54 Under Promise 02:27:46 #56 Communicate 02:30:06 #57 Get Help When Needed 02:31:01 #58 7. Reinvest 02:34:31 #59 After First Clients 02:38:43 #60 Questions? !ask

[@SeipherNL]

Legend

[@viralknockout]

Absolute hero

[@Quo210]

Thank you!

[@davidtran1360]

this is fantastic. thank you so much for this comment

[@claudettebentley]

What Leon says is the truth. Once you have these skills you don't worry about getting work. Your only worry becomes finding a good place to work or to do the work that you find interesting. I left a full time job for personal life reasons in 2020 and decided to take a break from work. I then decided 6 months in that I do need some work but not full time. I got a 100% remote contract job within two weeks at a very nice place that has been accommodating to my schedule. I can't think of any other field that has this much flexibility in the type of work and the ability to do remote work.

[@DrecoMandres]

That sounds amazing claudette, Congrats!

[@Sevaleries]

How did you find the remote contract job.

[@claudettebentley]

@@Sevaleries I will preface this by saying I have 20 years of experience in my field so I am not entry level. I had turned on the I am open to contact by recruiters in my profile and I noted that I was looking for remote part time work. Not all contacts were for remote/part time but being contacted on a regular basis was nice for the ego. Once your in this field, if you need work you wont have to look very long.

[@Chocolatinhermoso]

cant wait to get to this point

[@kristenwilkinson1014]

@@Chocolatinhermoso Same!

[@dnlbellfield]

Leon gives us the path, the tools, and the knowledge and it’s only class 15! I straight up love 100Devs.

[@dreamz808]

catchup crew strong. This class really engerized me! lets go get!

[@codingwannabe]

This bootcamp is invaluable.

[@calebmatteis9155]

This class give me wings!!! Your the best Leon

[@keyplayer101]

Just happened on this site and am blown away with this guy. To give this info for free to help people is just awesome. I have done HTML and CSS but never thought of marketing it to do for clients. But this presentation alone is worth a lot of money. Years of experience given away with imagination from a brilliant man. Thank you! Wow!

[@NatePerdomo]

I missed this class a month ago and can't believe I'm just now watching it. Incredibly valuable info about freelancing.

[@himanshushukla6451]

Oh man. Incredible levels of info you are providing

[@victoriaparker2255]

Absolutely loved this class! Thank you a lot!

[@philliphamilton4882]

Leon thank you so much for for everything you have been sharing!

[@dywa_varaprasad]

CatchUp Crew💪 check-in

[@alexanderbrewster3595]

These videos are a life saver, really trying to change my life

[@addvokeight]

I feel exposed all of a sudden; Thanks Leon for the eye opener; Thank you so so much

[@xakiri4577]

LETSS GOOO CLASS 15erss!! WOOOOOO WE ARE MAKING IT BOI

[@LToledo01]

This video is worthy of more attention!

[@Darkangel9036]

Checking in!

[@portfedh]

A great class. So much to do now...

[@oldirtybirdy2533]

Catchup crew in the building!

[@cliffordmapesa6636]

Wow! Just wow!

[@zombiekill25]

wow, there's something about this class...LFG! 🔥

[@natehenson71]

You the man!

[@jeanneolie7683]

I am really broke 😢 and this vidoe is giving just hope that I can continue coding while making some money as freelancing 😢

[@samurai8548]

Same here

[@mattvail5301]

Thanks Leon

[@hallwayraptor2036]

I almost always prefer the water starter. One of my friends made me a Piplup plush that I use as my "duck" :D

[@ljcamp07]

If your anxiety is killing you. Me too but I just watched the free solo movie of dude(Alex Honnold) climbing with no safety gear 3000m. No excuse!

[@balikisbolanle2107]

Is this landing a freelance job is forthcoming? I don't know but the tech space is quite saturated atm. But I will give it a try. Thank you.

[@brandonlai9388]

here I come class 15, almost 3week in and I already learn some html css java basic(I do read the homework Leon assign) and my typing speed from 33 wpm > 46 wpm. just discover something call Full Stack Dev Roadmap, still a long long way, but we all know it's a marathon.

[@sylviareece3119]

#catchupcrew Checking in. Thank you, Leon!

[@Traestar]

@2:32:40 I could relate to that right now. It really hurts going through that.

[@lukedoyle2697]

WOOOOOOOOOHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@callmejobson]

I got got my first client by sharing what I have been on social media! FB!! They reached out to me after I had been posting what I have been working on!!

[@lovevidehart]

Dead links for the twitter accounts in the slides .. what happens ^_^ ?

[@spunosounds]

#catchupcrew hey Leon, any way to access the slido questions and answers? the code is not active anymore. thanks!

[@Eric-bi5ud]

(In Pauly Shore voice) Yeeeeeaaahhh Budddddy!

[@RiFi357]

👍👍👍 been following these courses for awhile now, what would I put on a resume if I'm self-taught?

[@onosemuodeikuesiri7620]

Don't know if this is too late for a reply but You said you have been following these courses for a while now.... while if I was in your shoes, I will include #100Devs in the 2nd section of your "experience" in the resume....after all it's free and you have been following

[@RiFi357]

@@onosemuodeikuesiri7620 thanks but I've finally joined since then

[@vishnu2407]

​@@RiFi357congrats!

[@tauhidrahmangazi4184]

hi @hotish82 . i am also a self taught learner like you .could you plz tell me your story.

[@habeebawoyemi8054]

Thank you leon

[@adriancpm]

Lesgetit!

[@theeredqueen]

I watched the Pokemon anime before I played the games. For that reason I am a fire starter main for lyfe, that Charmander story. Hold up let me get a tissue.

[@danneytee]

Does anyone know a good reccuring monthly payment system that I can apply to my client's monthly maintenance & SEO fee? I think setup an automate payment withdrawal will be much beneficial long term

[@vishsingh7235]

Quickbooks Online and Square can both do this. There are probably other options as well.

[@codecollege1079]

When do you run your boot camps? I would like to join

[@The0nlyJanel]

It’s every Tuesday and Thursday at 6:30 pm est time. You can join with the links in the video description. There’s also a catch up crew that can help you with starting out in the discord

[@jitone1]

I'm sad😭, i want to hear blaw's talk!

[@islamicsolution5618]

Great 👍 Sir 👌

[@momowii92]

I love you

[@supersaiyangoku11219]

Pandadoc isn't free :( Templates are not free on their site either

[@learnwithleon]

The link in the slides is a direct link. Free and doesn't even require an account.

[@supersaiyangoku11219]

@@learnwithleon Thank you Leon !

[@krupasindhu_05]

48:00

[@TheBabelTower]

Unfortunately I'm from india and i only got $15 client today :(

[@jarrellidk]

It's a start though! If you can't find people in your area start looking on google maps for businesses and checking out there website. Call/ come prepared with a list of issues you noticed with their website and WHY it's important to fix it. It's pretty effective if you can find an issue thats actually costing them customers like slow loading times, broken pages, unclear information, very old website, etc.

[@dywa_varaprasad]

how do you get clients btw ??

[@randomrock3439]

I got a $50 client lol

[@noface00]

food for algo

[@tzintzos1]

1:14:26 lol

[@leog1676]

half a mili kids... that's right. That class brough into half a mil.

[@BetaWink711]

Huh

[@jitone1]

i'm 15 minutes in, and i wonder if there will actually be legal advice or not. When people say this they still usually give advice 🧐

[@lordphemstar]

First viewer

[@joaco4ever11]

anyone looking for a coding partner

[@momowii92]

I'm a month behind, still down ?

[@captstrugglebunny]

Lots of good information shared here. Is there a document or something where all links/resources shared in this video are written down, so I don't have to skip through the video to find them? However, this video committed the cardinal sin of that all these freelancing videos do: they assume you have a network of people dying to pay you to build websites. And if you don't have a network, just magically become a master of something. Yeah, sure... Sorry, this video really does have a lot of excellent advice and resources, but it fails in the most important part, how to land a client for people like me who are outside of small town USA and don't have a network.

[@mistytomlin]

If you've watched any of the other videos, you would know that is his #1 thing he tells everyone to do. Network, network, NETWORK. If you haven't watched them, then you should.

[@EPICPIXEL24]

Join the discord and the “follow along channel” you’ll find more info. Is not that hard to understand what it takes find a client. There are many many ways. Clients from network doesn’t happen until your name is out there. Google businesses around your area that don’t have a website. Call them. There’s one for you. Just have to get up and do it.

[@jarrellidk]

Most of the emphasis was place on cold calling/door to door If I recall. I don't know if you watched the video all the way through but somewhere along the lines (at least I believe it's this one) he goes over cold calling.

[@NatePerdomo]

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