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About the Book

Are you ready to launch your own freelance development business but don’t know where to start? I used to be the same way and I spent years refining my system in order to run a successful freelance business. In addition to being an instructor I also have a freelance development business that generated over $295,000 last year alone. In fact, in one month I made over $43,000 in freelance work. And in this book I walk through the exact process I used to build my freelance service so that you can learn from it and launch your own business.

I have spent the last year putting together this book based on my own real world experiences with clients. This includes discussing the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to becoming a freelancer. Many other freelancing courses are filled with 1-2 hours worth of theoretical concepts. I took a different approach and focus 100% on practical real life experiences so that you can truly use this book to launch a freelance business. The result is that this course gives you 2 to 3 times more material than most other freelancing systems.

I’ve organized the course into practical sections so that you can follow along, this includes:

Preparing for the launch of your business. Including how to schedule your launch, how to create a portfolio that actually gets clients, how to craft a list of template proposals, and every other component you’ll need in order to start your business.

Next we’ll move onto the top challenge freelancers come across: how to get clients! This was the most difficult obstacle for me to overcome when I started my freelance business and I walk you through my marketing system that generated so many clients that I had to hire additional freelancers to help take on all of the new clients that were signing up.

As important as getting clients is when it comes to launching a freelance business I don’t end the book there. I dedicate sections to the topics of managing projects, testing for code quality, working with legacy applications, and how to manage client communication to ensure that your clients become your biggest fans.

If the idea of hard work doesn’t scare you off and if the concept of making your own schedule and being able to work from anywhere in the world is appealing, then this is the book for you.

Since these concepts are part of my life’s work, I didn’t simply write this book. I also filmed video lessons published on Udemy with a video guide associated with each chapter of the book. If you are interested in going through the video course you can access it at this link, along with all of my development courses.

I look forward to going through the book with you and I wish you the best of luck on your freelance journey!

About the Author

Jordan Hudgens

@jordanhudgens

Jordan Hudgens is the CTO and Founder of DevCamp where he leads instruction and curriculum development for all of the DevCamp and Bottega code schools around the US.

As a developer for over the past decade, Jordan has traveled the world building applications and training individuals on a wide variety of topics, including: Ruby development, big data analysis, and software engineering.

Jordan focuses on project driven education, as opposed to theory based development. This style of teaching is conducive to learning how to build real world products that adhere to industry best practices.

Additionally Jordan has published multiple books on programming and computer science, along with developing training curriculum for Learn.co, devCamp, and AppDev on the topics of Ruby on Rails, Java, AngularJS, NoSQL, API development, and algorithms.