Yalamber Subba, who is a top WordPress consultant at elance.com, shares his experience and thoughts of how you can market yourself as a WordPress Developer.
2. Why WordPress developer as
a career?
• Currenlty Ranks
No. 7 On
Elance.com* for job
trends.
• Powers more than
70 million websites.
• WordPress users
include some high
profile companies.
• There is demand
for WordPress
Developers
* Elance.com is a freelance market place
3. Why Market Yourself?
Competition
To get better value
To get right type of
customers not just
more
customers/clients
More projects?
4. Where and how to get
WordPress jobs?
Where are the jobs?
Freelance market places like
elance/odesk/freelancer.com.
Support forums
Job boards
How?
Build your portfolio of WordPress jobs
Make your self known in WordPress community
5. How to get WordPress jobs?
Help others solve WordPress related problems
Help in forums like stackoverflow.com
Give away some free themes and plugins you have
developed.
Make you proposals interesting and related to the
clients projects
Take available tests that verifies your knowledge
(smarterer)
6. Some Tips
Be honest
Dare to say NO.
Know when to increase your rates
Be friendly
Provide your suggestions
Ask for referrals
7. End
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http://yalamber.com
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