10 Steps to Becoming a Solo Technology Consultant

Where are you along the journey to start solo consulting? If you're thinking about it, what step is holding you back?

Subscribed after 20 seconds I just know this is going to be good. Appreciate it. 🙏🏿

Pretty bad time to try to do consulting

I started my career as a consultant. It was a terrible idea and it worked out anyway, AMA

I swear, you and your channel speak to me on another level. I'm at 10 years of experience and don't know what to do next. The only thing in common between all of my jobs that I've enjoyed? Building things. I can't think of a better way to build something than to go out on my own and build up solo consulting business. However, I've always struggled with finding and retaining clients :/ Hoping to push through and finally make it as a solo dev.

I just found your channel recently. This video is interestingly timed, I had just started planning something like this about 2 weeks back. Thanks for the help

thank you for the time you invest in these useful videos

You, sir, are a goldmine! A brother we all need in our lives :) please know that your videos are much appreciated, even though many of us may not be in a position to financially contribute to your channel!

Excellent advice. Thank you.

Thank you, this has helped a lot! Andrew - Plutoneon

Is it possible to get anything serious doing this? Seems everybody think they get top quailty for low price when they buy from 3. world countries. All projects seems to be «save our failed project» where you inherit a totally broken code base with full of bugs. Just so tired of this. I want projects where i start from the begining.

Where do I start? Upwork?Or do i need hustle big time to get my first customer by cold emailing / networking?

College kids are incapable of working for themselves 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

My fear with career coaches is that it might not be worth it because there is no revenue as a result of it. Good luck in getting your money back due to dissatisfied services. The coach will argue that he delivered the services offered and it was you who implemented them incorrectly. This is a problem with selling vaporware.

did you just call Java as a legacy language? Hahaha

great video as always!

Defining when the work is done is as important as politely refusing more work. In the early days of web design I worked part-time and freelanced. I had one client / business that, after I finished the work, were happy and wanted more. I ended up working on site and got stuck with them too long when I should’ve moved on broadening my client base.

This is a great video, but it definitely is triggering my imposter syndrome. Being a tech professional for 11 years and everytime I think of a service offering, I just think of the worst case scenarios and embarrassing myself.

For a future video, could we have some day in the life kind of content where you and some of you coached folks show what their individual consulting workflow is like? I'd love to see some folks who have to bring humility into their consultation but still put together a win.

So when you are searching for clients, you just message them yourself personally instead of like a job-board or something?

Just finishing a project proyected to 4 months that was extended to 1 year...so bad in negotiations, the part of getting right with the due dates and the payment is essential... Learned the hard way.

Uu y se la metierom con tuti..pero ssbemos q la derecha solo defiende sus interes de dinero y poder político.. incluso se destruyen entre si mismos.

just be a contract developer, join a existing team, let their team leader or manager handle all the bs, not you

I know first step: "open all your holes to IRS".

How do you convince people to buy your service instead of using an outsourced developer who speaks perfect English and is half the cost? That's what you're up against these days.

Great tips, thanks!

Hey, greetings from another independent tech consultant who is also a musician!

Half way in, I just want to say I appreciate the valuable information on this channel. Lost my job as a dev and I am currently trying to freelance to make some income until I find a new job, so these videos are like gold nowadays. Thanks Jamie