Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 303 | Kyle Prinsloo - Business and Freelancing
Guest:
Kyle Prinsloo talks with Dave Rael about education, schooling, business, marketing, freelancing, and exchange of value
Kyle Prinsloo is the creator of studywebdevelopment.com where he helps web developers advance their careers and grow their freelancing business. He knows how it feels to earn a small income and to figure out ways to earn more on the side and to even do it full-time. Having the freedom that freelancing provides has motivated him to share what he knows and to help you do the same.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Kyle Prinsloo
- - Kyle's intent with studywebdevelopment.com
- - The nature of digital marketing
- - Kyle's approach when he decided he wanted to learn to code
- - The reasons Kyle got into web development
- - The things that "light Kyle up"
- - Education, schooling, life experience, and opportunity cost
- - Kyle's story of failure - damaging relationships due to a business partnership that didn't work out
- - Kyle's success story - Providing value and receiving positive feedback from people who were helped
- - Kyle's freelancing bundle - an information product with materials to help you succeed at freelance web design and development
- - Kyle's book recommendations
- - Finding a niche
- - Kyle's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Kyle
Resources:
- Kyle's Freelancing Bundle with Listener Discount
- Kyle's Website
- What I Learned From Interviewing Over 200 Developers - The Post Dave Wrote for studywebdevelopment.com
- Rob Percival on Udemy
- The Complete Web Developer Course 2.0 - Rob Percival
- Jonathan Stark on Developer On Fire
- Ditching Hourly - Jonathan Stark's Podcast
- The Freelancers' Show (on which Jonathan Stark is a regular panelist)
- Kotlin Programming Language
- Basarat Ali Syed on Developer On Fire
Kyle's book recommendation:
Kyle's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Identify problems and provide solutoins
- We all have something to say
- Act with persistence - "value can't act unless you do"
