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Tanax · 12-06-2008, 01:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Wildhoney

I personally don't freelance any more, but rather have many, many websites which make money. Most of these websites could only be created because of my expertise in programming. Such as grouping projects together under a single library, and that library then holds all the responsibility for acquiring data, and distributing it to the individual websites.

Perhaps the best place to pick up PHP jobs would be Sitepoint. I used to pick up quite a few PHP jobs there. I think you're more than capable of freelancing now!

Yea, that's true. But the only way to gain experience, is by trying. And what better way is there, than to get paid for trying and practicing?

Thanks for the link, I'll check it out!
And thanks!

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Originally Posted by sarmenhb

try going on craigslist or something and set up a post and telling them that your going to school and are trying to make some money and that you create websites or web applications and show some examples

before you know it you'll have multi customers

Thanks! I'll check it out!

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Originally Posted by Village Idiot

Only you can assess if you are capable, the first few projects are always scary. Start with easier projects and do harder ones when you are confident and know what you can do (not to mention how fast you can do it).

Advertise your services, I got many times more clients coming to me than projects I found. Sarmen, never tell the client that you are young or in school (I would go as far as to tell teens to lie about their age), the two are suicide if you want to make real money. Such details are of no relevance and can only hurt you (and age is illegal to discriminate by).

If the project is too big for you to do because of school, just say "I won't have time to take this one on." Not "I have school." When you say that, people think of some idiot highschooler who they wouldn't even have mow their lawn.

That's true. I myself wouldn't hire someone whom I knew was a "highschooler". Where would I advertise my services? Got any good tips of websites?

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Enfernikus

From strictly PHP work I made upper three to mid four figures per job, I have continuous clients whom I charge less for so long as the majority of their scripting things go to me.

Cool. But where do you find your clients?

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Originally Posted by t3st

So far, i really dont make money out in coding php, but i tried maybe once or thrice when i just try to do some functions and a little debugging in their code :)

Ye, like me then ^_^