A lot of incoming freelancers have some preconceived notions about freelancing which, if overlooked, can doom your plans. I will be soon throwing some light on what exactly is freelancing but before that here is a list of reasons for not being a freelancer. continue reading »
I got the invite for Orkut around 5 years back. It has just started then but within few days of joining Orkut, I just lost my interest. There was not much to do there except for asking people to be your friends. It was just another network in the likes of Hi5. 2 years later one day one of my colleagues asked me if I knew about Orkut? continue reading »
This is one of the most common question that has been asked by many of my friends who want to jump onto the business wagon. And, honestly I was asking this all the time when I started up. The bad news is there is no simple way of getting it. But, the good news is that you can do it. continue reading »
It is very important that whatever you do you should be passionate about it. Passionate doesn’t mean being crazy about something. It means that you have an inspiration, a motivation and, above all, patience for that thing. It means that even if you don’t get anything out of it you will never give it up. I have came across a lot of people in my professional as well as private continue reading »
When I was starting up my own venture one question often popped in my mind was how will I retain my people. Lots of people questioned me. Why would someone come to work with me instead of a big company? Why someone will want to hang out with my startup business while they can earn good money in MNCs? How am I going to retain people?
Well I thought about it continue reading »
I was recently looking at a freelance job board. A lot of freelancers had posted their response over there. Out of curiosity, I just checked out their profile and was surprised to see how many freelancers have a “Company website”. I thought people would have stopped doing this mistake now since I started. Yes, I too did the same mistake. I thought of venturing out as a company rather than continue reading »
Hello Everyone,
Sorry for disappearing without a notice. I was busy with some projects and hardly found time to jump in here. The load is off for day and here I am back on my blog. I will be soon putting up some recent work that I just did for my clients.
Thanks for checking my blog and your support. I will be regular from now. continue reading »
Quoting the right price to your clients can be a daunting task. You have to hit the right balance between your effort and the client’s budget. Being a freelancer it is imperative to overlook this aspect.
Continuing from my previous post about quoting the right price, here is how you can decide the right price to quote to the client and at the same time rewarding yourself with the right remuneration. continue reading »
With a swarm of unprofessional and inexperienced freelance web developers around, it is sometime frustrating, irritating and surprising to see to what level people can reduce their quotes to just get a project. Because of this uncontrolled pricing the good ones are suffering.
I hereby urge you to realize that you are providing your services for a cost and you should get what you deserve. Don’t grill the client but at the same time don’t go overboard by undercharging them. continue reading »
It has been a long long time since IE6 was introduced. It was introduced in the year 2001. So, that makes it a Eigth year old internet browser. The web designing community knows what a pain is IE6 in the butt with its misbehavior towards CSS, javascript and so on. It is time for web developers themselves to discourage people from using IE6 now. continue reading »