Started web design and development as a freelancer in 2005 roughly.
Got into this accidentally. Had a baby at hand, in London, and did not want to leave him with the commercial child-minders- no offense! Neither wanted to quit the corporate world completely.
Kept updating myself through self-learning. Heard accidentally at a GP's place about a lady wanting to have her website for displaying her art work.Dived into it, and successfully designed and developed a site.
Unfortunately, after a year, due to lack of funding, she did not renew the subscription, and the site went offline.
Next, developed a site for Music class, same story, but this time, it is the latest one with fresh look revamped, and will go online again.
Another success story is for dietitian, the site is still on, It is doing good. What worries me is that, after the said 2 years subscription, it should remain online.
One site for Japanese translation service is almost complete, awaiting clients uploading signal.
Got another client, a friend of mine, for her site of baking studio.
My general reading is that a client feels, once the site is on the net, they will start receiving orders and their business will bloom. Having web presence is not the only criteria they have, they need to be educated about the rankings and revenue generation through net, which is totally different and vast, in-depth field, than my scope.
Hence these days, I have started learning whatever I get about SEO, Digital Marketing, Online revenue generation, Google tools. It is just the tip of the iceberg, have to go a long way ahead.
My main skill is ASP.NET MVC, html-css, coreldraw, photoshop, but these skills too need to be learned more and more on the go..
Getting new client is an effort. Before the previous one is done with, I wish get a new one, to keep me busy. Of course, in the mean time, studying and updating process kicks in, but that does not generate revenue for me. More the gap, more the lethargy. Needs hell amount of self motivation then !!
Keeping the existing ones alive is also a task I need to master.
Got into this accidentally. Had a baby at hand, in London, and did not want to leave him with the commercial child-minders- no offense! Neither wanted to quit the corporate world completely.
Kept updating myself through self-learning. Heard accidentally at a GP's place about a lady wanting to have her website for displaying her art work.Dived into it, and successfully designed and developed a site.
Unfortunately, after a year, due to lack of funding, she did not renew the subscription, and the site went offline.
Next, developed a site for Music class, same story, but this time, it is the latest one with fresh look revamped, and will go online again.
Another success story is for dietitian, the site is still on, It is doing good. What worries me is that, after the said 2 years subscription, it should remain online.
One site for Japanese translation service is almost complete, awaiting clients uploading signal.
Got another client, a friend of mine, for her site of baking studio.
My general reading is that a client feels, once the site is on the net, they will start receiving orders and their business will bloom. Having web presence is not the only criteria they have, they need to be educated about the rankings and revenue generation through net, which is totally different and vast, in-depth field, than my scope.
Hence these days, I have started learning whatever I get about SEO, Digital Marketing, Online revenue generation, Google tools. It is just the tip of the iceberg, have to go a long way ahead.
My main skill is ASP.NET MVC, html-css, coreldraw, photoshop, but these skills too need to be learned more and more on the go..
Getting new client is an effort. Before the previous one is done with, I wish get a new one, to keep me busy. Of course, in the mean time, studying and updating process kicks in, but that does not generate revenue for me. More the gap, more the lethargy. Needs hell amount of self motivation then !!
Keeping the existing ones alive is also a task I need to master.
