Freelancing: One year done.

The Business of Web Design, Cardiff, Wales

18th July 2014

Transcript

1. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com
2. www.alwaystwisted.com @sturobson Freelancing: One year done.
3. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com The Talk Between You and Lunch http://burgerdays.com/eat-a-cheeseburger-on-national-cheeseburger-day/
4. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Stuart Robson front-end developer alwaystwisted.com RWDCalc SassnotSASS.com Sassifaction SassNews
5. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Why go freelancing?
6. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com
7. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com
8. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com
9. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com
10. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com
11. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Why go freelancing?
12. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com If you haven’t tried, you haven’t lived.
13. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com – Scott Smallbone “Try anything in life once, except …”
14. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com The Pros flexible working hours flexible working location choice of projects variety of projects constant need to learn new things
15. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com The Cons financial insecurities. loss of full time benefits. a blurred line betwixt work and home. being the captain, cook and the toilet attendant. loneliness.
16. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Getting Ready.
17. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com
18. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Preparation freelancing in the evenings. blogging tutorials and thoughts. making things. conversing on the twitters. deciding what I wanted to do.
19. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Web Designer What did I want to do…
20. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Web Developer What did I want to do…
21. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Front End Developer What did I want to do…
22. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Front End Developer What did I want to do… specialising in responsive web design front-end consultancy web performance building HTML, CSS and JS(jQuery, kinda)
23. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com How to get work?
24. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com
25. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com
26. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com
27. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com
28. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com
29. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Settling Down To Work
30. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com My Own Space
31. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com A Routine http://www.communication4all.co.uk/http/allaboutme.htm
32. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com A Routine With an allowance for flexible hours there’s no real ‘routine’. Moreover there’s a sense of things to try and do every day.
33. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Trying to keep up
34. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Keeping Up Twitter RSS Conferences Playing
35. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com
36. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com
37. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Where did the work go?
38. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Clients
39. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Clients Directly with client. With another developer. With a project manager. With the back-end developers.
40. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Client Smells
41. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Client Smells promise of more work. ‘up in the air’ specifications. questioning your rate. it’s a ‘quick’ and ‘easy’ job. they disappear.
42. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Get a Contract
43. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com
44. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com
45. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Contract Details Terms of payment (50% up front, 50% on final invoice). Late payments What is included (browser testing, etc). What isn’t included (copywriting, etc). What you’re expecting from the client. What the client will get from you
46. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Everything is a negotiation
47. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com
48. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Get Covered
49. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Insurance and ‘stuff’ Personal Indemnity Public and products liability Office insurance Portable Equipment www.policybee.co.uk
50. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Crossing the t’s and tittling the lower case j’s
51. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Cooking the books send estimates & proposals sort out expenses send out and chase invoices work out my profits and losses get ready for Mr. Taxman
52. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com http://fre.ag/41kfq5bv 41kfq5bv
53. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Wrapping Up Being your own boss, it’s pretty amazing. It does have its caveats Don’t forget to keep an eye on your schedule Karma happens more than you’d expect Allow time for you to play Don’t bury your head in the sand Enjoy yourself, your work, your time, your friends and family.
54. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com
55. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com
56. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com – Philip J. Robson “If you’re not working for yourself so you can enjoy yourself. What’s the point in doing it‽”
57. www.alwaystwisted.com @sturobson Thank You
58. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com Enjoy http://burgerdays.com/eat-a-cheeseburger-on-national-cheeseburger-day/
59. @sturobson www.alwaystwisted.com