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Marketing yourself as a developer can just be blogging, creating videos/sreencaptures of you explaining some thing etc. You don't have to sell anything, just co
by perlgeek 10y ago
Marketing yourself as a developer can just be blogging, creating videos/sreencaptures of you explaining some thing etc. You don't have to sell anything, just convince people that you're worth employing.
Just the other day my boss discussed some hiring decisions with me, and he said "the guy is too expensive. If he had a blog or an active github profile, I could justify 10% more" (above what we'd usually pay for the position).
So, having a public blog with some contents and visitors can increase your pay as a developer by 10% easily. If you're not comfortable with traditional marketing, that's all you need to do.
And if you're lucky, you can also sell some courses on pluralsight/udemy/whatever at some point, and make some extra cash on the side.
- pryelluw 10y agoYes, with those simple things you can manage to develop a nice online persona. Where I help people is more in how they are going to implement those ideas. Blogging is not as simple as it sounds and some people need some help to get started. They also need to write with an end goal in sight. I tell people to blog as if you were to publish a book from your posts after 6 months. People also tend to need help in structuring content. I help them learn how to write technical content that does not end up reading like furniture instructions.