Becoming a Freelance Web Developer in 2024 (The Truth)
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- Опубліковано 19 лип 2024
- Looking to become a freelance web developer or web agency owner in 2024?
Here's the truth about starting as a freelance web developer, presented as a set of steps for you to follow.
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These tips come from Aleksander Vitkin, who has 9 years of experience on Upwork and has taught 700+ entrepreneurs how to succeed on Upwork and build an online agency.
Getting jobs on Upwork is a great way to start as a freelancer or agency owner.
Aleksander Vitkin has traveled to over 45 countries, has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs start and scale their business and is the founder of BusinessMentor.com.
After 6 years of building his successful consulting business, he was asked to be a business mentor by some of his clients. In 2014, he founded Daily Business Hustle, which is now known as BusinessMentor.com.
He's an online educator who teaches marketing, business models, sales and other valuable skills for entrepreneurs.
BusinessMentor.com is known for its hundreds of success stories and case studies, it's a platform for results-driven business growth. That means we focus on learning real skills that allow members to build a legitimate business.
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You are advised to take all the content as opinion and entertainment only.
Most people who watch business advice, don't take any action. Most people who enroll in programs, don't take the programs very seriously. Most people are not likely to get results with anything they learn in any of these videos or programs. We do our best to share what has worked for others, but this is in no way a guarantee that it will work for you.
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Just finished high school,am considering doing web design&development
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Hey man, I just wanted to ask that can I really ask 1000$ for a website if I am not much experienced? I am just starting development after learning the basics.
I don't get the shopify part...can you explain it well to me ....do I need to sell on shopify.
i really respect this guy for not losing eye contact...thats a talent.
Tf bruhh 🤣
He is good no doubt, but bro he is reading from teleprompter that's why he can't lose eye contact....
he's like a news channel anchor
The 11:57 background video enhances this more.
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You are the first I watched that had an unbiased opinion and actually provided knowledge. Thank you soooo much.
Hi Carlos, thank you. I like to think my bias is towards results ;)
I'm really glad I found this channel. You really know your stuff! I'll be checking out more of your videos.
Good stuff man. Answered all my thoughts!
Great video my dude, I can tell you have been through the ups and downs of freelancing! Keep the videos comingg 🔥🔥
Great videos, timing is so good as when I am looking for videos like yours.
Thank you for sharing Aleksander Vitkin, you really have an impressive story in freelancing. Thank you for taking time to share tips. It will really starters like us.
Good points: weekly meeting, paid weekly, communication plan. Good customers must have resources to include both finances and time. Without adequate time or money, you cannot be successful providing services. Good point about bad clients keep you from finding great clients.
Thank you for providing real life examples along with your great advice!
Are you a freelancer too?
This is the guy I need to learn from.
Thanks, you're awesome! It's fun to listen to you talk, very captivating.
Best video I have seen so far! Thank you.
What advice would you give to people ho want to be a frelancer after finishing their computer science degree?
Very detailed and useful video, thanks a lot man!
Thanks for the new video! I’m looking forward to seeing what other content you post! Always good to learn as much as you can!
check out one of the playlists ;) see description for that
Awesome advice!! Thanks for sharing!
A very informative video with lessons applicable to anyone who wants to go into business for himself. Thank you for posting and good luck.
Do you freelance?
Thank You for the information.
Well explained! Keep up the good work
This is very helpful. Thank you very much.
This is the video I needed because I had many questions
Hey Aleksander, this was some helpful insight. I've done Upwork before and I honestly didn't have a good approach nor any experience with clients, but now I have completed roughly 20 projects on my own. After watching your video, I really feel confident about going back into Upwork.
Bro so how's your experience in doing 20 projects and pls tell me how did you get your first project
Hey Kev, mind if I ask you a question or two? Would be very helpful, I am on your way.
@@uHTPuGaHT Sure. What's your questions?
@@kodeDev Hi, Kev, and thank you for getting back, I saw your response just now.
For some reason your comment gave me the impression you have been mostly freelancing wihtout much 9 to 5 work experience in an office. As somebody who is currently learning to code I would, of course, go for a traditional career shift with a 9 to 5 on-site job, but, hey, I don't wanna write off freelancing -although in the beginning I will not have any previous experience (can have a portfolio though)
So any tips and advices in that direction would be great. I also took in consideration your response to Adhishek. Myabe your upcoming channel would be of help for me, so I will stay tuned. Maybe I should dig in Alexander's videos as well.
Thanks!
I'm a university student that wanna start be a freelance web developer, and this video was very helpful for me as an entry level
First leave university and study and learn what really matters
@@thefrustratedboyy who are you to say that to him lmao
@@282_daffarabbani3 Obviously the devil lol
@@Phillycheeze101 considering their name, not wrong
@@282_daffarabbani3why r u mad? the guy pointed out the obvious: don't waste f*cking time
Very informative video, thanks, can u make a video how payment works (I mean what all charges need to pay and what's the exact amount I m going to revive ) on upwork
It's really useful. Thank you so much brother
Great details, practical stuff for someone like me, thanks
Excellent video! Thanks!
Thank you, that was informative!
thank you for sharing you motivated me
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Very helpful, thanks for this video
Hi Aleksander! How I wish I've known your vlogs sooner. This is really great! Thank you so much. However, is it necessary that when you're starting to become a web developer, you really need to niche down? For example, my first client would be from a food business. Should I focus on delivering websites about food business? I'm really curious on this one because I'm a little bit confused.
You don't need to sell to a specific type of client like "food business client" when selling on Upwork. Sell a specific type of website instead built on a specific platform.
i have built a few shopify stores, from purchased themes, and now studying programming taking the web dev industry as business/web developer. Do you recommend customizing from themes or fully building out shopify themes from scratch?
I would just see what clients are looking for. Both techniques are viable.
pure content!!!! only , nice
Спасибо, помог проветрить голову от ненужных мыслей.
Amazing video brother.
You're awesome. Thanks!
My job I work now people would complain about it on reviews and in the comment section. When I got there it wasn't that bad. I going to watch more videos get a better idea of what is going on and let experience be my teacher.
Just following you, I hope this will help me!
Thank you very helpful
Best Explanation
Do you recommend selling yourself as a solo practitioner? Like "Hi, I'm John Doe..." or as a business, like "Hi, I'm John from [Company name]..."? Also, is it recommended to operate under an LLC?
solo, llc
I don't normally like these kinds of channels but this is brilliant stuff. Subbed, you just made me a lot of coin
You just made my day
I got very interested on the method and data source of the market research you conducted! Could you please give me some hints. 😊🤷♂️🙏
thanks your video help me a lot
Bro, I was hesitant to click on your video, I thought it would be a pessimistic doom and gloom about freelancing and how its not worth it but your content is the bomb, Ive subscribed just because listening to you I feel like I am making more money already
Always listen to business owners not people bitching about how stuff is. You can’t be a business owner and bitch, those are mutually exclusive.
You really motivate me to finally start learning skills to make some good money as a freelancer so I can finally become location independent.
I got fired on purpose to chase my passion as a writer but it's gonna take a while to make money with that since finishing a good legendary book takes time.
But I need to learn a quick skill so I can earn quick cash in the meantime to keep myself being able to chase that dream.
I'll start with WordPress.
Thx man. 😎
If you, a single person got motivated to start learning new skills from this video, it’s already a success.
@@AleksanderVitkin
how you doing bro
I want an update
@@jobennebur update from me or Tao?
Excellent video!
Thank you Kevin Parkinson. Strong last name! You're just in time here on the channel, we're growing quickly and exponentially to 100k subs, always good to be among the first :D
Will wordpress development be relevant in the comming years? Should I learn WordPress development or invest my time in learning some other development language like Python and Java?
Thank you very much.
Am learning a particular web technology , but the web has lots of tools to solve the same problem , wat if a particular client complains bout the technology I use and forces me or opines me to use python , for example.... A language I don't know!
Aaron Daisuke_Luv Clients can’t force you to do anything. You decide which clients you work with as long as there’s enough demand for it in the market and you can deliver with what you know or what your future team knows, you’re good to go.
If a client forces you to do it in a specific language, just know that you are doing their school homework for 5$.
I don't get the shopify part...can you explain it well to me ....do I need to sell on shopify.
What a great video. Talented guy
Thanks a lot!
thanks!!
Can you link any site of 1K just to have an idea of what you talk about?
Awesome !!
New subscriber!
Pardon me asking. What mic you are using?
Worth watching
What if you have no shortage of clients but spend a lot of time “sharpening the saw”? How can you charge for that?
i am doing free lancing in google site for 1 year for a college.
Cost is low.
Teachers post notes to repective dept.
Authorised access using gmail id.
students fill forms, submit feedbacks and submit assignments.
database is mainted with authorised access and some other features.
pls tell if i can get freelance customers.
Thanking you.
Well, what happens after first client? Is it getting any easier?
What about a place like iraq, which upwork isn't servicing it ?
Hey thanks bro ur a legend
Can you advise a path to learn web development, what is the best course of action to learn it fully, which language or technology is to learn to start a freelance web development??
well you have to decide, frontend or backend. During the time you trying to think about it just be learning javascript cause that is used on both frontend and can be done on the backend. Then go udacity or udemy. Pick good curated courses and start learning.
Thank you sir
What do you mean by web development ? what do you do?
Sir, I've problem how i can share link of my portfolio on fiverr & upwork? Actually, I'm mern-stack developer!
Hello! When you are about to sell a website to a customer, do you charge him with the domain expenses or it is you the one who manage it ?
You can do both. I suggest selling the site only, no management.
Awesome video !! I am hard of hearing person trying to learn Web development. What's your advise to me who can't hear but want to earn as a freelancer?
What’s great about freelancing is that some work is only done online.
This is some great advice.
But as a novice, with some html /css knowledge.. I just don't know how to justify a 1000us bid for a job. It seems overwhelming for an inexperienced wp dev.
You have to charge less. Like $200-$500 to get started. Be prepared to learn on the fly once you do get a client
oh i love this content
wordpress developement is only simple if you mean installing some plugins, slap on a bloated marketplace theme and an even more bloated page builder and call yourself wordpress dev.
if you do it right, it is not that easy.
Then do it right and charge more.
I don't trust someone who calls themselves WordPress Developer and recommends 'Elementor' to build webpages.. lol
Sir I've recently learned basic web development html css javascript so what freelancing can I do from that please help really need
That's not enough you atleast need to learn framework like react or angular and for back-end go with PHP
Thank you so much for the advice. It was really helpful 😊
PS don't forget to relax your voice and blink once in a while 😉
If I relax even for one second, you'll feel bored on youtube ;)
Biggest question I have is (currently I am learning and have studied Vue.js and Laravel courses) when and how to know if I am ready to get into the freelance business?
Have you started freelancing ?
@@Coderdawg no. 😩 lost and confused. Things are pretty bad in my country rn… if things get better i will apply for an internship
i have developed local wesite using html css javascipt. pls tell how to jump to become freelancer
Thanks for nice video.
Now a days, Upwork isn't approving new registration, especially from people of indian subcontinent!
How to get approval?
They aren’t the only website out there. Fiverr, ifreelanced are other networks/marketplace.
@@PaulVazquezJD Thanks for replying. Upwork is, however, very popular, at least at Indian subcontinent!
I don't what are reasons for this popularity.
ALEXANDER PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO FOR APPLICATION PROPOSALS
You ca learn develop wordpress in 2 weeks? Do you mean anyone without coding and programming skills or those who already know php?
Hi, I’m trying to finish my associates degree of arts. I don’t want to get a bachelors. Should I focus more on getting a 4 year degree even if I don’t want it because of the competition of those who hold higher education degrees? Or just focus on getting certifications (python, swift, web development cert) and gaining skills and experience? Any advice is appreciated.
Certifications.
Depends on what you want to do. This is an old comment so maybe you figured it out but you can get certs at any time. There's nothing stopping you from getting the degree and then also getting certs and that will of course be even more competitive.
If you want to do web development certs aren't going to matter much compared to a degree and more importantly a solid portfolio with well polished projects in javascript and some javascript framework of your choice.
Something like security or networking jobs are more cert oriented. Depends on you.
Isn't it almost impossible to find a client in upwork because it is so crowded
Bruh have you tried?
@@AleksanderVitkin i'm asking
Be prepared to be offered 5 Euro per hour...
You are a legend
Upwork is listed on Nasdaq
I need help
I'm not a Computer science student. So I don't know a single word of coding. Should I start learning
Web development?
Android development?
First Of All, learn to code. grab concepts like control structures and OOP. After that pick what interest you more between mobile and web
what did u do? any updates?
I'm leaning web dev through code but should I learn WordPress as i want to earn quickly?
learn css, html and javascript. You will have much more freedom.
Best of luck on your journey
You should consider webflow!
@@LilSOS no
thanks bro
No matter what platform someone more experienced with more review gonna take my job.
Upwork is worst because they give only few attempts and if none of your proposal gets accepted by clients (again because more experienced people takes it away from you) then they will block your account permanently.
Edit: watched the part where you talked about getting 5 revs. 👍👍
It's not the platform, it's you, improve your stuff instead of complaining ;)
@@AleksanderVitkin right. I will try.
Freelancing its a bullshit, and all this people are promoting web dev are scammers selling hop and fake dreams to people on youtube, but this guy is great
once the work is completed and if the client want some features to be added or if found some type of bugs and needed to be fixed , what should be the situation of the freelancer then ?? .. sorry if my question doesnt make any sense but being a beginner i have a number of doubts ,i just need someone to answer all my silly questions but that mean a lot to me .Thank you in advance
I would charge for extra services especially one the work is done. I would charge also if they ask for work after we spoke on goals
You can charge for web maintenance fees and additional fees for add ons.
Titles says 2023 but uploaded 3 years ago? Am I seeing this right?
How to start freelancing if I have no real world frontend experience?
@B.N.H Amateur production yup
@@respectknuckles428 what about w3 schools
thanks for this ! I'm recently about to be finished with the udemy full stack course so this helps me out a lot to get my fist job in the web developer career, but one question besides adobe photoshop what's a good software app to do editing for all my needs during my journey ? thanks
Editing of what? Images? Photoshop is fine :)
Aleksander Vitkin yes images but seems like certain things have changed after watching you tube videos there is some missing options
How has it been for you these past four months? Im considering this as a side weekend job. Would you say thats possible?
Take Away "Check if they are normal, sane people"
So nice great
Hi,I was suspended in Upwork for no reason.Can you suggest me platforms that are better ?
milan poudel Message me on facebook.com/aleksander.vitkin there are ways to solve this problem
@@AleksanderVitkin sure thank you so much sir
I like ifreelanced.
Currently a cs major at a UC. how are full stack jobs for cs majors. Been foing a lot of webdev on the side
How are they? They exist and your skillset is in demand. However, you could also get into freelancing/business Before you graduate, now.
Best of luck
Hi, what do you think about going into web scraping/crawling freelancing ? ( On upwork )
Fundamentally the automated extraction of data out of any website/public facing resource is illegal. Otherwise the company/product would've given its customers an API.
But everybody seems to do it like it's no problem at all.
Edek Qwerty One of the guys i work with right now does this successfully. No, it isn’t illegal, he asked a lawyer.
@@AleksanderVitkin cool, thanks!
Check the terms of use if you do want to get kicked off the site or get sued for the value that you stole.
Shopify is easier what u talking about?