This document provides tips for freelancers on getting their first client, building a portfolio, setting prices, and dealing with client feedback. It recommends freelancers rebrand themselves on LinkedIn and GitHub, join online communities, and create a strong portfolio to attract clients. It also suggests using milestone-based payments for first projects and calculating hourly, fixed, or daily rates based on experience and local wages. The document notes freelancers may receive negative feedback from clients about delays, poor communication, or bugs, and stresses the importance of being honest, keeping clients informed, and fixing issues respectfully.

1. Lesson Learned : My Freelance
Experience
M Aris Setiawan
WORDCAMP JAKARTA 2017

2. HOW TO GET YOUR FIRST CLIENT

3. Re-Brand Yourself
- Linkedin ( most of my client find me via linkedin )
- Facebook ( make all of your silly statuses can see by only your friends )
- Create an account in Github, kreavi, dribbble, etc.
- Website is a must have.
Join The Community
If you are a student or employee and want to become full-time freelance, start
making a portfolio, make it stand out. Be awesome.
Build a Strong Portfolio
This is the thing that I want to do for my early year of freelance. Do it and you
will know what benefit you can get.

4. GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY
If you do a good thing, something good will happen :)

5. Give yourself the right price
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For the right projects

6. Little advice:
“ If it’s the first project with a new client, use pay per milestone.
They will love it (in my case).
Welp, it still depends on the type of your project ”
It very depends on the client and the type of projectsType of rate and how I measure it
- Hourly rate : I rarely using this method. Not just because it’s not fit with my project,
but also my client mostly not interest using time tracker or marketplace. You can
measure it same as hourly average regional wage (UMK) and double it :D
- Fixed rate : this is the most rate I ever used. To calculate it how much it’s cost, it’s a
little bit tricky (for me). For example: I start my project from $100, so even if they just
want to install WordPress and theme…. I will start with $100. Same goes with
creating website. Most of my friends that I ask, they measure it with their year of
experience
- Daily rate : It’s still new for me, but I already tried it with my clients. They are happy
with it because it’s sound reasonable to them. You just need to calculate a monthly
expense then divided to 30 days, yups, you got your daily rate.

7. How To Enjoy Being Freelancer

8. What Freelancer Think
about you ?

9. Pak tolong bayar sisa pembayaranya :(Plz, kalau revisi desain jangan 1 1 :|Jam 12 malam itu artinya tidur pakkkKok ngilang ? jangan-jangan ninja ?Woi baca perjanjian woi

10. EITSSS…..LALU BAGAIMANA UNEG-UNEG
PROJECT OWNER TENTANG KAMU

11. Ini Anak apalagi digunung ya ? lama bener balasnya
Woii , yang akan pakai program itu kita, bukan kamu.
Sulit banget sih navigasinya
Ingat nak, kita ini pihak ke-2, kalau delivery project
bad. Nama kita tercemar :(
Jujur dan komunikasi adalah hal perlu kamu miliki, bug
program bisa diperbaiki, attitude membutuhkan waktu
lama untuk diubah :) , jadi ayo mulai sekarang kalau
ada masalah, langsung konsultasi sama kita ya

12. WHAT’S NEXT ?