What’s one piece of advice you would give to an aspiring WordPress

robiulroky

I was able to get most of my larger clients because the person making the hiring decision is also a developer and is familiar with my work. By releasing my plugins, tutorials, snippets and contributing to larger projects I’ve been able to prove my value to technical decision makers. For most of the other projects, I worked with them on a smaller project and once they realized what I brought to the table they utilized me on other projects.

There is more work out there than there are high quality Country Email List developers to do it. In my opinion, one of the best ways for a developer to get more business now is to contribute to projects with other top developers. Your talents will be recognized and when those developers receive work that isn’t a good fit for them, they’ll send it your way.



I just looked at my stats. Of the past 200 people who contacted me to do work, I took on 13 projects. That means I turn down 93.5% of the work that comes my way. This is for a variety of reasons – outside my skillset, too short of timeline, too small of a project, and many other reasons. I bet many other developers would have similar statistics if they looked.

When I’m not a good fit, I try to recommend people that might be. And the best way I know who to recommend is by seeing them in action, contributing to projects I follow and work with.