[barry-cotter]

>> In order to get projects, you have to leave your house and meet other local business owners.

> And so we come to one thing that rarely gets explicitly discussed in articles like this - the location. I don't blame authors for that, your environment is usually something you take for granted.

Isn’t that what conferences are for? Or content marketing? Patio11 went from not consulting to charging $10,000 a week while living in the Japanese equivalent of Iowa by writing blog posts but IIRC the best channel for his particular consulting was Microconf followed at some distance by cold emailing.

If you live in Romania you can afford to attend a Western European conference once a quarter, right? You can definitely afford to blog.

[balfirevic]

Sure, I did not mean to imply that it's impossible. I was kind of thinking out loud about how it's whole different kind of game when you have access to good clients locally compared to situation when you don't.

I personally haven't tried to seriously make a jump to freelancing but I have been thinking about it lately, so these kinds of considerations are on my mind.