Re: Best ways to find projects

2008-12-23 Thread Matt Williams
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Ravi Gehlot r...@ravigehlot.net wrote: For instance, your name(Jenny Gavin-Wear) is very powerful. Try to build a BLOG and give people what they want. Try to get on Social News networks like Digg, DZone, Delicious, StumbleUpon, Reddit. Also try to get on

Re: On line project site

2008-12-23 Thread Lu Sancea
I second Guru.com, you can pick up small and large products, and if you don't shun php you can do much better. Lu On Dec 22, 2008, at 10:24 PM, Dave Phillips experiencedcfdevelo...@gmail.com wrote: Guru.com was good for me a few years ago. Some clients post projects looking for US only

Re: Best ways to find projects

2008-12-23 Thread Ravi Gehlot
I have experienced the same here especially with IT. But since I like programming more, I kind of drifted away from the whole IT scene. But you are correct, word of the mouth is also a good selling point. Great you mentioned it. Ravi. Jacob wrote: Word of mouth... I been in IT for 14

Re: On line project site

2008-12-23 Thread Trevor Cole
A major contributing factor to these low-ball estimates is a lot of the time, people completely unfamiliar with how IT should be conducted, much less how much it should cost are the ones who are posting the jobs. Anyone in their right mind who has worked in this industry should know that they will

We Do Three Types of Jobs Here…

2008-12-23 Thread Ravi Gehlot
At times, I get requests from people wanting me to build websites for them. Such websites range from a simple layout, in css without any server side scripting, to complex websites like those of social networks. These same people want the work to be done in an unbelievably short amount of time

Re: We Do Three Types of Jobs Here…

2008-12-23 Thread Vicky
Hal Helms Clark Valberg gave a good preso at ColdFusion United called Changing the Game. It was about how to win more profitable work. The materials may still be on the CF United 2008 website, if not on Hal's own site/blog. It was very interesting and worthwhile. On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:19

Re: We Do Three Types of Jobs Here...

2008-12-23 Thread Ravi Gehlot
Vicky, I wasn't able to find the presentation but I did find the notes of a person(http://www.philduba.com/index.cfm/2008/6/21/CFUnited--Changing-the-Game) who attended it. Here are his notes from the presentation Changing the Games by Helms. - Concentrating only on your rates =

Re: We Do Three Types of Jobs Here...

2008-12-23 Thread Paul Ihrig
great post. thx for the info R -paul On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Ravi Gehlot r...@ravigehlot.net wrote: Vicky, I wasn't able to find the presentation but I did find the notes of a person(http://www.philduba.com/index.cfm/2008/6/21/CFUnited--Changing-the-Game) who attended it. Here

Re: We Do Three Types of Jobs Here…

2008-12-23 Thread Matt Williams
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Ravi Gehlot r...@ravigehlot.net wrote: * http://tinyurl.com/humorFreelance That reminds me of a cartoon I saw a long time ago. It basically said, We have great service and low prices. Which would you like? -- Matt Williams It's the question that drives us.