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Discussion on: I start procedures to be a freelance (web dev) ! Let's talk about your best tips :)

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Joshua Johnson

I remember when I first started in the freelance world. My best suggestion is to do good work. Always make your customer happy and try to go at projects with fixed pricing. This has been my secret for the past 10 years and it has served me well!

For the past 10 years, I've made at least a good 10K extra per year on top of my day job. It is all built into the relationships you create with your clients.

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Ben

How do you do cost estimate for fixed price cost?

As customer always change and give detail requirement after your quote, too low estimate would lower your income.

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Joshua Johnson

In short, fix cost projects require a lot of upfront documentation to provide a defined scope of work. Clients always work with you as long as you have the paper trail to prove what you guys talked about. I do it with a detailed scope of work.