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Contracting platforms are a race to the bottom. Successful freelancing requires a lot of outreach. Start with your network and then move on to cold outreach to
by PragmaticPulp 4y ago
Contracting platforms are a race to the bottom.
Successful freelancing requires a lot of outreach. Start with your network and then move on to cold outreach to companies that might need your services.
Hint: If a company has full-time job postings for your work domain, it means they need your services. You can pitch them on contract work and offer to augment their teams on a contractual basis while they search for a full-time hire.
- MOARDONGZPLZ 4y agoI get about 50 of these cold emails a day. Almost all of them are wanting to provide contracting services to me. Most are just offshore body shops. I could very easily hire contractors for discrete work given my company’s posture on this, much easier than hiring FTEs, but there is so much noise it just all goes to spam. What I wouldn’t give for some trusted source of signal to just take my money, honestly, but a cold outreach is likely not it.
- tomrod 4y agoWhat high-signal channels are you open to?