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Show HN: Pricing Freelance Projects

1 points by tom_hirst 6y ago

tom_hirst 6y ago
Hi HN! Pricing Freelance Projects is the book that I've always wanted to write, born through chance. I've been freelancing as a web developer (WordPress/JavaScript) for the last 11 years. When I began pricing my work, I did so without knowing: - What pricing methods to use - What to charge for my work - How to ensure that I got paid in line with what I was worth As time went by, and with a keen interest in business, I started to study pricing heavily. Through my learning, experience and experiments, I priced myself to a six-figure yearly freelance career. Since my success as a freelancer, friends and other freelancers started to come to me for advice on their own careers, leading me to start sharing my thoughts on social media to help reach a wider audience. In June 2020, I posted a Twitter thread summarising my thoughts on pricing freelance projects. It went viral. The thread has received 37,100 likes, 11,200 retweets and over 3,000,000 impressions. Freelancers, consultants, owners of agencies and entrepreneurs across all industries got in touch to offer their praise for the condensed version of my approach. Many people wanted to know more. I’d already thought about writing a book on pricing for freelancers and this response was the catalyst. I set myself a deadline and dropped everything to start writing. I set up a pre-order product on Gumroad to announce that I was working on the book. The book received 229 pre-orders and generated $4,351 in revenue while I was writing it. Now, Pricing Freelance Projects is here and I'm super proud of it! It's ~30,000-words, across 135 pages, divided into 59 easy to digest sections. Available in PDF, ePub and MOBI formats. You can check out a sample from the book here: https://pricing-freelance-projects.netlify.app/pricing-freelance-projects-sample.pdf https://pricing-freelance-projects.netlify.app/pricing-freel... Pricing Freelance Projects covers everything that I've learned in over a decade of pricing real-word freelance work. Early readers have given 5-star reviews and I'm humbled at the level of interest my vantage point on pricing has received. I wrote Pricing Freelance Projects because I see skilled freelancers every day who can charge more for their services. I'm posting on HN in the hope that more of these people get to know about the book. If you have any questions, please leave a comment, I'll be happy to answer them! Cheers, Tom

1 points by tom_hirst 6y ago

Hi HN! Pricing Freelance Projects is the book that I've always wanted to write, born through chance. I've been freelancing as a web developer (WordPress/JavaScript) for the last 11 years. When I began pricing my work, I did so without knowing: - What pricing methods to use - What to charge for my work - How to ensure that I got paid in line with what I was worth As time went by, and with a keen interest in business, I started to study pricing heavily. Through my learning, experience and experiments, I priced myself to a six-figure yearly freelance career. Since my success as a freelancer, friends and other freelancers started to come to me for advice on their own careers, leading me to start sharing my thoughts on social media to help reach a wider audience. In June 2020, I posted a Twitter thread summarising my thoughts on pricing freelance projects. It went viral. The thread has received 37,100 likes, 11,200 retweets and over 3,000,000 impressions. Freelancers, consultants, owners of agencies and entrepreneurs across all industries got in touch to offer their praise for the condensed version of my approach. Many people wanted to know more. I’d already thought about writing a book on pricing for freelancers and this response was the catalyst. I set myself a deadline and dropped everything to start writing. I set up a pre-order product on Gumroad to announce that I was working on the book. The book received 229 pre-orders and generated $4,351 in revenue while I was writing it. Now, Pricing Freelance Projects is here and I'm super proud of it! It's ~30,000-words, across 135 pages, divided into 59 easy to digest sections. Available in PDF, ePub and MOBI formats. You can check out a sample from the book here: https://pricing-freelance-projects.netlify.app/pricing-freelance-projects-sample.pdf https://pricing-freelance-projects.netlify.app/pricing-freel... Pricing Freelance Projects covers everything that I've learned in over a decade of pricing real-word freelance work. Early readers have given 5-star reviews and I'm humbled at the level of interest my vantage point on pricing has received. I wrote Pricing Freelance Projects because I see skilled freelancers every day who can charge more for their services. I'm posting on HN in the hope that more of these people get to know about the book. If you have any questions, please leave a comment, I'll be happy to answer them! Cheers, Tom