How Being A Diligent Freelance Web Designer Can Earn You More Money

Talented freelancers are a dime a dozen in the highly competitive world of web design and development. A good example of a talented and skiled freelancer is a web developer from Idaho who recently posted a 14-post-long Twitter thread detailing how he landed a project in excess of $10,000. The entire thread is very informative to review because it includes attached files showing the actual quote sheets, proposals, counteroffers, and strategy, but the most interesting tweet is the one that begins the thread.

It so happened that the freelancer received an email from a previous client for whom he had completed a real estate project. The message in question was an actual introduction to a colleague whose office location was far from the developer's home, thereby reducing the potential for a personal meeting. The initial contact via email was very vague; the developer did not have very high hopes because the most recent real estate project he had completed was a low-key affair, but correspondence with the client revealed the need for a complex website with customer relationship management features.

Even though the developer started off negotiating with the business owner, it did not take long for the matter to be handed off to a personal assistant. Everything seemed to be going smoothly until the assistant indicated that it would take a few weeks before a decision could be made. In the meantime, the freelancer got a little bit ahead of the project by presenting some preliminary wireframing along with notes about how the website would flow in order to capture leads. At every step of the correspondence exchange, he showed that he was interested, capable, and on top of the project, which in the end he secured for nearly $12,000.

Some freelancers will think that closing a referral is no big deal, but how often do they strongly pursue the leads presented to them. The aforementioned developer may have given up if he thought the project was going to be a quick $200 WordPress setup not worth being diligent about, but he covered all bases and scored a home run in the end. For more information click here https://twitter.com/steve_tenuto/status/1255863128421588992?s=20.