Where can you find clients as a Python freelance developer?

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hey guys it's Dan and this is a question I got from a reader where can you find clients as a Python freelancer so super important questions for anyone who's trying to make some money of their Python programming skills there are a couple of options that have worked for me in the past and I've seen work for other people so if you want some very you know actionable stuff we can just go out and apply that strategy I would do two things so I would create an up work profile just you know put your skills out there offer your work and then make a point of every day reaching out to people on that platform where people are looking for some Python help or some you know web scraping tasks a data transformation tasks and you can just offer your help to people on that platform this is not usually not gonna pay you know a super-high hourly rate there just because there's a lot of a lot of talent on the platform but this can be a great way just to build your your experience and build your portfolio and actually make some money doing that another option that you can do and this is something I call this prospecting so what you want to do is like you want to search Craigslist and search some job boards and just email out you know offers to people that you find there if someone's looking you know to have a website build or to have some kind of app build email them and say hey I'm a developer here's my portfolio this is highlights the importance of having a portfolio out there and I just get in touch with them and offer your services now you know this is totally a numbers game if you do it like that this is some this is also where kind of the really crappy clients are you know this is usually not like very sort of high value and the best clients you're gonna have a hard time finding the best clients on these platforms and doing these strategies and but it's something that you can do almost mechanically right like have a little template and just email as many people as you can and eventually you're gonna see some results and this is very important especially initially if you don't have to network and if you don't have the previous clients that you worked with that are gonna bring you repeat business so this is a good way to get started another thing you can do you can post your your your abilities or kind of make a posting on sites like hacker news or reddit forums we can just say hey I'm a developer for hire these is these are the skills that I offer these as my areas of specialization and just get inbound email from people that potentially want to hire you again this is usually not going to lead to the highest quality of clients but it's just something you can do and this is something you can use to attract clients so really the best way to find clients that are high value that are great to work with is by building personal relationships right and in order to do that you always want to bring some value upfront so if you're trying to meet a new person and kind of convince them that you've got what it takes to get the job done you need to show them that you've done this in the past and you know what you're talking about so really this is more a long-term game and this is why I'm sort of balancing it with you know these are some things you can do very very directly very quickly versus some more if the long term kind of like strategy things that you want to do and here it's it's all about building up your your expertise and also your authority in a way as an expert Python developer and for dad you definitely want to have a portfolio you want to put yourself out there see if you can you know submit a conference presentation speak at a conference and I've got some videos on that that show you how to do that and how this has worked for me in the past you want to build your network by actually shipping projects for people you know working for people and just have that personal network where people can say hey this person is a great programmer and if they hear something in their in their surrounding in their network they're gonna refer you that work so it's all about the referrals I think in terms of the really high quality work and this is how I found my best clients another Avenue you know if you can take that kind of authority expertise building very far and start a blog start a start a website and talk about what what you can do by teaching others how to do it and really this is this is gonna open up a whole nother level where people can see that you've got the skills that it takes and your if comfortable teaching other people this stuff and that for me has made a huge difference just in the amount of inbound that I get in terms of you know job offers or you know hey do you want to be my co-founder and stuff like that so that is really a long-term game and I would encourage you to get into it because it's very rewarding it's a lot of fun you can help a lot of people and then also have a source of a freelance work by doing that but this is gonna take a long time to build that momentum and to build that recognition right so this is why I want to balance it with having some actionable strategies that you can apply and some things that are really more like the long-term long-term strategies and long-term things that you want to do and then you kind of want to chip away at so so yeah these are some tips and what you can do to find work as a freelance Python developer if this question helped you out it didn't leave a comment below and I'll tackle your question in one of my next videos