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Originally Posted by shake
Depending on where you live you might want to try locally. I've picked up some extra work easily by helping local companies with their website/it/socialmedia/seo/marketing. There seems to be never ending demand for that type of work if you ask around. It's helping out while I build my next big mainstream project.
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Walrus. If you try to get business from your office/home you will have to compete with every cheap ass who is online and many living in countries where $5 an hour is a good wage. As this thread proves.
So get out and use my method of contacting people face to face. Build sites online showing what YOU can do for THEM, then go knock on doors. Offer to replace their existing site or build them a new site. You need to display YOUR talents and what you can do.
Getting in front of prospective clients eliminate the competition who can't. So eliminates all the Ukrainian, Indian, Philippine, etc.
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Originally Posted by astronaut x
Horrible advice.
It's funny. I started out doing just that before I started working in adult.
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Respectfully I disagree. Regardless of the country the OP is living in, he or she can put their skills to use and build one or more fully functioning websites with a particular niche industry in mind (ie: dentist, insurance agent, automotive repair, landscape, pool maintenance, etc.). They can reach out to that category of business owners, who either do not have a website, or whose site is outdated, and offer them their services.