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If you are calling yourself a freelancer, then you have the wrong mind-set. Treat your work like a real business. Brand your services. Whatever you do, don't
by gexla 15y ago
If you are calling yourself a freelancer, then you have the wrong mind-set. Treat your work like a real business. Brand your services. Whatever you do, don't call yourself a freelancer. You are missing out on the opportunity to present a much better image to your prospective clients.
Freelancer is bad, hacker is even worse. You might as well have thrown rock star and ninja on the front page as well.
Quote from the front page...
"Hackers can focus on code, and clients get peace of mind."
Sure, because these are the sorts of problems people who refer to themselves as freelancers or hackers have. If this service isn't taking care of marketing, accounting, budgeting, business strategy, etc. then the hackers can't just focus on code. If you need a service like this to give your clients peace of mind, then you probably shouldn't be doing client work.
If you guys really want to help connect people, then you should probably start by helping them get into the correct mind-set. Prospective clients aren't looking for hackers, they are looking for professionals.
ETA: This was a bit of a rant. So, I suppose I should offer something constructive. I think the service is fine, but I would change the message. I could see clients being turned off by the choice of wording. Also, you may want to provide different portals for clients and hackers / freelancers / ninja's / rock stars. The client doesn't care about all the benefits to the developer and doesn't need to see those details. Maybe a more simple "find talent" and "find work" page (like Elance) would be better?
- antoviaque 15y agoAgreed on the message/positioning, as discussed in previous comments - we'll see if we can find a better branding, at least for the client side. About learning to get the right mindset, we would definitely like to include people who are new to freelancing in the first batch - you're right in the fact that this is probably one of the most valuable aspects of our help for them, besides the matchmaking itself.