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I did sysadmin freelancing for a number of years. The keys for me were:

1. Find small to mid-sized companies who can't afford (don't need) a full-time SysAdmin, but could use one for say 2 hrs per day.

2. Be nice and attentive to secretaries and office managers!

3. Push clients to engage in contracts. Offer discounts on hourly rate for bulk commitments (e.g. offer 10 hrs per month at a 35% discount or whatever).

4. You need to oversubscribe yourself about 1.5x to make it work financially...also invest in decent time & billing software.

5. Never pay for advertising. Asking existing clients politely for referrals is 10000% more effective. Further, the kind of jobs you get from "ads in the paper" are never the jobs you actually want to do.

[rezahandzalah]

Can you elaborate on point 4? Billing software?

[erfgh]

What you will use to create the invoices that you will send to clients.