Tonny P Chinaka: How to make it as a freelance developer using WordPress as a business

Make Wordpress your way of life
COMPLETE GUIDE ON HOW TO START WORDPRESS AND
MAJOR IN IT PAY YOUR BILLS AND GIVE BACK TO THE
COMMUNITY

How to make a living with Wordpress
• What you need
• Where can you get it
• Taking off
• Getting in-depth with Wordpress
• Giving back to the community
By Tonny P Chinaka of AnimaTWebservices 2

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What you need
• Goals
• Skills
• Facilities

Goals
• What are you going to be
majoring in(webdev /
backend)
• How are you going to be
usingWP for your business
• Choose your market of
choice
Plan your
business
• Have great knowledge of
what you want
• Hear from those who have
gone through and get that
angle you never anticipated
Research &
Evaluate well • Have a standard work base
• Have your restrictions setup
right
• Whether its purchasedWP
templates or your own
created templates
Establish a
standard

Skills
• Have basic knowledge of
computers and study the web
• Invest your knowledge and time
inWordpress it is the easiest
• Know web based programing
languages
(XML,HTML,PHP,CSS,JS)
Programming
• Before you engage know how
and when to approach
• Know your market and its sweet
spots use it to your advantage
Communication
is key • Think outside the box try not to
stay basic and static
• Be different in a positive
manner bring new methods,
designs
• How to make a great elevation
in your business with Wordpress
Innovation

Facility
• Have/ Look for a standard working area to
carry out your service unhindered
• Standard in this term is well ventilated,
electrified building/room with access to
internet
• With fast internet speeds of the likes of Zol
make it easier for you to build these
websites with wordpress online for a slow
internet connection can kill your progress
dramatically I use Zol and it proves to be
the best in this business
Infrastructure
• Secure a stable wallet to engage not too
much yet not too little all depending with
how big you want to start
• Money will help in acquiring the right
equipment to embark
Finance • Obviously you need computers but best
performing ones core series mostly
,laptops for on the go and tablets
• Server racks if you want to host your own
sites and more, with that comes the
servers and UPS for backup power and
preferably another plant / mirror server
• Download your fresh copy of Wordpress
from the site
Equipment

Where can you get it
• For know how in programing have stack over flow and youtube as your playground
• Use online purchases to build your specific webserver builds or high performance
machine build platforms such as Amazon and Ebay these have the most hot gizmos in
the system
• Use the CBD shops to purchase your basic machinery there are some good machines
as well
• Or if you are money tight buying 2nd hand machines can work but don’t make it a habit
or relax with them because machines have a time span and you don’t want these
things to go dead on a client
• Read motivational books and blogs to help you get intrack when you feel your losing
your way for it happens to every one
• Get your copy of wordpress setup from the site ,the plugins and templates as well

Taking off
PLANS
• Not all you plan comes in scope
• Your 1st client
• Payment
• Tasks completion
• Easy of use of wordpress
REALITY
• Reality can surprise you positively
• This 1 can come when all hope is lost
• Some have issues with payments so its not
get rich quick
• At times tasks you are given can be really
impossible(remember your dealing with
some from a dif wavelength in Computers)
• At times you might find bugs and have
tough times , always remember to look for
help before you get lost far

Your 1st client
 Know where to search for your 1st client using your market research and aswell as researching
where indeed is in need of your service
 Know how to treat your 1st client its your 1st client don’t mess it up take it slow and build a
relation remember its not about the money but your service
 Know that a journey of a million miles starts with the 1st step make the reference from this step
count for down the line you might meet up that gig of a life time and it requires the pure
experience of your 1st client
 Once you have your 1st client secured know the journey has begun the 2nd client comes to give
you security and assurance of what you are doing and more start coming easily from this point
onwards
 Introduce your clients to the WP dashboard and help them become familiar with it for doing
their posting and give them the right privileges you see fit and mind the user registration and
password
 Do not leave their credentials unsecured
 With the use of jetpack plugin get to link your clients social accounts linked with their website
 With hosting services such as bluehost you get to have a backup plan and always backup your
clients website always
 Keep your website up to speed when you managing the hosting made easy by the likes of
bluehost

Pricing
 Its not about the money but improving the service of ones business through your
intervention with a token of appreciation in it
 Do not think highly about the money ofcourse you need to eat but don’t price exorbitantly
 Do not over price that will chase away clients will weigh the risk and unguaranteed turn
around and end up turning around from you
 Do not under price your service for you will seem too desperate , desperation has a
deceiving attribute
 Know when to improvise your price and no when not to improvise for you should never
work feeling unsatisfied for the results of your feeling becomes evident and tarnish your
fragile fetus reputation

Secure your old clients always
 Old clients are reliable clients for years of experience bring trust great relation n most of all
loyalty
 Don’t be over excited with the flash flooding new clients these are noobies they can leave
anytime at the same time you should concentrate with them to secure them to become
yours permanently
 Introduce anchors for your old clients to keep things exciting and satisfied these can
include promotions and free services or a free sub website for another branch whats the
harm you already making money
 With growing client base comes the need to increase your work time and ability to be in
many places in the same time now comes the need to expand to get the services done
with flying colors
 Your clients should never feel a lag a latency in a bug on the site it should be sorted out
there and then
 So put more people behind the computer and on the ground for you and as well on the
payroll , keep everyone satisfied always not just your clients but most of all your stuff
 And be weary of stuff that’s there to steal your client base never get over carried away
always stay alert and I wish I could find another way to say this butTRUST NO ONE many
companies fail in their 1st yrs

Your Goals Once More
 Remember what your said you where going to trade on the beginning of your campaign do not
lose
 Sight of your goals
 Put your goals 1st to have a stable trade and growth
 Do not improvise your goals unless necessary
 Most of all put God 1st in your goals and he will guide them well
 Respect the Lord and do not make the web a platform to tarnish the lord by doing improper
actions

o how is wordpress developed and how it functions
o indepth on the structure and languages used
o start developing your own websites with intellij using raw Php/Html5/Css3 and JS
o start using your achieved skills to implement them on wordpress to make your own themes
o start doing free themes to upload to the community then priced themes
o start working on your own plugins using knowledge of how plugins are made which is almost same as
themes
o use free wordpress plugin creators online then move to your html/php to code on your own
o ts imparitive to know how a system operates and so as to make it easier for you to debug problems
and make your clients satisfied by giving them what they desire to the dot and the added advantage
of debuging preset themes and plugins
Knowing wordpress on the next level
Getting indepth withWordpress

Start connecting with other wordpress developers and make wordpress to be
custom to your area , culture and others who want to try it to make it easier for
them so the Wordpress user base keeps on growing
Build and increase the Wordpress Community

Thank you
It all falls in your palms how to arm up
and take the world with wordpress
making your life better and business
around you flourish with the weapon
that isWordpress and with God on your
side you can get to the next level always
believe in yourself never stop imagining
practice a lot and have the zeal to to
learn always and think outside the box
Reference links
• https://wordpress.org/
• https://wordpress.org/download/
• https://www.bluehost.com/wordpress-
hosting
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/
• https://www.zol.co.zw/fibroniks-residential
• http://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketin
g.htm
• https://www.indexmundi.com/zimbabwe/popul
ation.html

Wordpress to & for the
world
Wordpress has made it easy to start
understanding websites and growing
your influence in it , it surely has for me
Make great use of it don’t hesitate to
experiment with wordpress lose your
ways ask for help that’s the easiest way
to learn
(but refrain from tempering with client
websites this can result in blazing hot
phonecalls)

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