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Subject:
Web Development at home.
Category: Business and Money Asked by: garthmore-ga List Price: $100.00 |
Posted:
12 May 2005 14:55 PDT
Expires: 11 Jun 2005 14:55 PDT Question ID: 521045 |
After being put on disability from my work (age 60)as an engineer & lab supervisor, I took some core college courses in web site devellopment hoping to supplement my disability income by earning another $500 to $1000 per month. I haqve discoveed that training I received was good on HTML, Dreamweaver & Photoshop. I have started my own business and worked to complolete my first site which I recently submitted to a client. I do not have the ability to quickly respond to large projects and my training in Visual Basic, JavaScript, ASP skimmed the high points omly. My question is "Which options do I have to secure my $500 to $1,000 goal realizing the limitations I have". I would be willing to do a small part of the puzzle and I really do not care what that is. |
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Subject:
Re: Web Development at home.
Answered By: jbf777-ga on 13 May 2005 21:33 PDT Rated: |
Hello - If you need any clarification, please don't hesitate to ask. Thank you. There are a few web-based online services that are a perfect stepping stone for what you're trying to achieve. They work by creating a marketplace environment where you can offer your services (inter)nationally to people or companies looking to hire on a per-project basis. The terms, negotiated up front, will allow you to assess how much time you'll take with each project, and how much your compensation will be. You can start out on a very limited level, and increase your work load by taking on more projects. The first site I would suggest visiting is called guru.com: Guru http://www.guru.com I have personally worked with someone via Guru.com, and it proved to be an excellent source for both employers and professionals to connect. Employers can come to you by locating your profile (which you can customize to display your exact credentials), or you can browse employers' existing projects and bid on them. You can see dozens and dozens of work categories right on the main page. While it's free to get started, the expanded, fee-based membership gains you access to more offerings. Membership fees range from $29.95 to $129.94 per quarter. More information is found in their help section at: http://www.guru.com/help/pro/professionals.cfm Secondly, I would suggest visiting ElanceOnline. ElanceOnline is a similar service to Guru.com: http://www.elanceonline.com Subscription offersings are here, ranging from $5 to $30 per month. http://www.elance.com/c/cats/main/sellers.pl?rid=93G4&promo=&newReg=&jobid=&from_bidding=N The above two sites have been around for quite sometime, and have proved their usefulness to thousands of customers. Another service I located along these same lines is Select-A-Designer: Selectadesigner http://www.selectadesigner.com Subscriptions start at $5 per month Additional services include: GetAFreelancer http://www.getafreelancer.com/ Freelancers http://www.freelancers.com/ ContractedWork http://www.contractedwork.com/ Many more potentials at this search strategy: web design freelance ://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=web+design+freelance Here is an article from about.com on starting your own web development business from home: Web Design at About.com http://webdesign.about.com/od/jobs/a/aa073100a.htm Thank you, jbf777 Select search strategy: web design freelance |
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The thing that I liked about "the answer" was that I was given some sources of information that really are credible. I did not want a list of 10,000 options of low credibilty sources. For me, the answer gave me hope and represents a giant short cut to achieving my goal. Information overload, especially by people who put their spin on things is very destructive. People do not usually have time or the endurance to sort out the truly credible from the millions of rabbit trails leading to nowhere. Thank you! |
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Subject:
Re: Web Development at home.
From: zeelog-ga on 12 May 2005 21:33 PDT |
Web development is a very competitive and has prices ranging from $100 onwards from US and ROW web designers. IMHO - look at learning the business aspect - that of using the Internet for web based collaboration and information management. Sales Force Automation, Customer support, hosted call centres and other online web based business apps are springing all up all over the US. Check out sfafinity.com, appx.com, SugarCRM.com to name a few of the SFA/CRM/ERP apps that you download and use as a development platform. Most companies provide their development platform for free - all you have to do is ask. Do a study of small businesses in your geographical area, find out how many of them use web based apps and you can gain expertise and work with these enterprises. With your background and experience, you can easily figure out how the systems work and what is needed ....you may need the help of a business coach to help you in this. Check out csoinsight.com (Barry Trailer) as an example of what cn be done. Best of luck in your search.... |
Subject:
Re: Web Development at home.
From: jbf777-ga on 14 May 2005 13:26 PDT |
Thank you for the kind words and rating. Please stop by again! jbf777 |
Subject:
Re: Web Development at home.
From: jmanly-ga on 14 May 2005 15:56 PDT |
One suggestion if you use Guru is to pay close attention to the requirements of the employer and don't use a generic canned response to projects you are bidding on. I use Guru alot for various projects and alway get bids where I tell that they bid on every project posted and just cut and paste the text of the bid without looking at what the employer needs. You also may want to do some projects cheap or even offer to do a few free in order to get a feedback rating. Your rating is important in getting better jobs. Good luck |
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