30 Days To Your First Freelance Programming Client: Step-by-step guide to finding your first client

by Zack Burt

Do you already know how to code? Then this book is for you. If you don't already know how to code, start elsewhere. This is a step-by-step guide, updated for 2017 best practices, on finding your first freelance job as a developer, programmer, coder, software developer or software engineer – for the purposes of the book, it's all the same thing.

This book provides you with a 30 day plan, where each day you make a substantial step forward to finding your first client. I guarantee that if you do not find a programming client within 30 days of faithfully executing this plan, I will personally refund your money (my contact information is in the book; details of the deal are in the book as well) within two years of original purchase.

How To Use This Book
Day 1: Update LinkedIn
Day 2: Build A Blog
Day 3: Craigslist Resumes
Day 4: Find Meetup Groups
Day 5: Hacker News
Day 6: Hired
Day 7: Toptal
Day 8: Gun.io
Day 9: Set up a blog
Day 10: Dream Client List
Day 11: Make a Twitter
Day 12: Write a blog article.
Day 13: Twitter engagement
Day 14: IRC
Day 15: LinkedIn content marketing
Day 16: Make a YouTube Video
Day 17: More Blogging, with syndication checklist
Day 18: Craigslist Market Rotation
Day 19: Blog Content Day
Day 20: Blog Research Day!
Day 21: Guest Post Outreach
Day 22: Portfolio Day
Day 23: Blog Content
Day 24: Blog Content
Day 25: Blog Content
Day 26: Find Your Following On Twitter
Day 27: Craigslist Gigs Hunting
Day 28: Quora
Day 29: StackOverflow
Day 30: Meetup Talks
Appendix Slack
Appendix Code For Cash
Appendix Acknowledgments
Appendix Table of Contents
Appendix Money-Back Guarantee
Appendix Contact Information
Appendix Websites and Continuing Education

54 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 12, 2017

Reviews

[Miguel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Incredibly practical advice for getting into the freelancing. A nice quick read too

[Kyle]

This very straightforward list of activities helped me understand the ways to be visible and active in my local community as an expert. Although I don't plan to use it to take on freelance work, I do plan on using this information to share what I know with others.