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Need advice to restart as a freelance programmer.

Hi friends,

Thank you all for this awesome community.

I need some advice please.

i was running a software consultancy from 2009 to july 2018 - http://kodeplay.com/

I now wish to restart my career as a freelance solo programmer.

How do i go about marketing and getting gigs, customers?

I am thinking about coding a new marketing website to try and win gigs, customers.
I am also thinking about good domain names for new marketing website.

any advice, roadmap will be very useful for me.

cheers.

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    Hi Kodekaran!

    It's great that you are looking for freelance solo programmer work. Would you ever consider using a marketplace like Upwork? Other options exist today like gigster and a few other businesses. Perhaps you can start with these marketplaces.

    If you really want to make customer acquisition repeatable, you'll want to get as narrow as you can with what you're offering. If you are offering developer talent find an ecosystem that you can get specialized in that compliments your strengths and passions.

    Do you have a lot of familiarity with Dev Ops or IaaS configurations? Check our AWS/GCP ecosystems. If you're into communication, perhaps you can build some services around twilio in their partner ecosystem. Salesforce has a big ecosystem where you could learn their API's and become a dev consultant for companies looking to achieve specific tasks with Salesforce.

    I wish you the best luck in figuring this out!!

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    Hi @Kodekaran, where are you living?
    You should build a network, start telling friends, previous customers/companies. The website is ok, it will be your contact point.

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      Hey,

      Thanks for your reply.

      that website was of my consulting company which is now closed.

      I intend to now make a new website for my freelance programming services.

      I am in India.