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by msadowski
484 days ago
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I’ve been consulting for close to 7 years in robotics now, robotics being a niche field I guess it has been a bit easier for me to find clients. I never had a period without a client and never had to do cold outreach. Here are some things I learned:
* You can usually charge way more per project basis instead of charging by the hour but it’s crazy difficult to get it right for R&D projects
* Most of my clients came to me through my blog
* 2 years ago UpWork was surprisingly good for finding projects, these days there is lots of AI stuff coming from freelancers when they apply and I’m not so sure anymore
* Discuss price as early as possible to not waste time I wrote a series of blog posts on my journey in case anyone is interested (I’m quite sure you will find the above points there): https://msadowski.github.io/5-years-remote-robotics-consulti... This year I might write another update to share a painful lesson on having all your eggs in one basket and not spending time on working your blog. |
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I get one good client on Upwork a year. 99% of the clients I've found are either unwilling to pay market rates, are subcontracting out before they actually landed the project (had lots of initial meetings and then suddenly they didn't get the project, final meeting fell through), or are trying to build up a team first, with no clients (I had 2 of these already this year).