Hi Laravel Business, I have started my career in the freelance market place from the third world (Bangladesh) since 2014. I have done 63 five star rating so far. In the Cov-19 season, I got messages daily basis "Can you do that for me?". In this scenario, I am pretty much successful and I am very happy about it. My Secret is, The only number #5 rule that you discuss today, which was worked for me. Regards
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I've just started and I have no idea how to get client :(
Of course you will get 5* rating for charging 50$ / project . This is by no means a rude comment. Maybe in bangladesh you get to live one month with 50$ so that totally makes sense. I'm not taking new projects for under 1000€ , but I still remember my first e-commerce that i did for 300€. Keep up the good work. Cheers
It was kinda fun that that poor client hates PHP and MySQL LOL. Perhaps have had bad experiences with professionals so ended up blaming the technology.
Ok let's "unpack" it and discuss. What have you tried to find freelance jobs? What clients have you pitched, how does your pitch look like, what answers are you getting? Can you show me how your online portfolio somewhere looks like? Any other difficulties because of culture or laws/payouts you're facing? Tell me more, I want to help you and others, at the same time.
@@PovilasKorop Thanks for your reply Povilas. I learned Laravel not more than 6-7 months ago. And your videos helped me a lot. Right now I am working on a website called Fiverr. I got two jobs after a few months of trying and they are at a very low price. One of them is an e-commerce website and the other one is a social media website (mytocu.com, there are many bugs and I am trying to fix it) similar to Instagram. There are many clients out there who want to get the job done at a very low price. So many third world country freelancers bid on this type of job at a very low price to get the job. That's what I am currently doing right now to build my portfolio. But to get a high pay job clients don't trust us for some reason.
@@47Lancelot I never did. I just applied. And then got rejected. And then improved at skills I saw that were weak (including application pitching). And applied again. And again.
@@47Lancelot No, I was committed to figuring out what I didn't know. And those first "risks" were for very small projects/budgets. At the very very beginning, I started with projects for online friends and local forums. I failed a few times, had to apologize and not receive the money. That's part of what clients get when they hire juniors for $100. It's their risk.
Ok, if it's hard, let's "unpack" it and discuss it. What have you tried to find freelance jobs? What clients have you pitched, how does your pitch look like, what answers are you getting? Can you show me how your online portfolio somewhere looks like? Any other difficulties because of culture or laws/payouts you're facing? Tell me more, I want to help you and others, at the same time.
Lithuania is former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which was a better neighbor / lord of post-ruined Kyiv Rus (which is now my native Ukraine), than Russia (consider name as stolen, real name is just Duchy of Moscow) can ever be, and it remains same progressive country, fastest to reach EU membership in 90thies, so, not a 3rd world anymore
@@PovilasKorop o hi, I didn't know you reply. Upwork needs lots of training to use lately. They have put a test on the website, I have achieved 20%, however I've been checking upwork for jobs since a decade at least. Very rude from a company who takes a nice percentage off of the anyways low payment, just for maintaining the site. At least they should provide a tutorial if they need special knowledge to use the site. Anyway the money they pay for these works doesn't worth it to wake up in the morning, any warehouse pays more on a hourly rate. But I'm probably wrong. Which was interesting, they never replied to my messafes or application. As I said maybe it's just me.
@@dgloria well, there's a lot I can comment on this, but generally yes, it's that hard from the beginning, as in any other job that requires skills - at first, you have to prove it, especially when you're "fighting" against hundreds of other candidates (that's the idea behind this video). 1. So if you are checking for jobs for a decade and haven't found anything reasonable, then yes, "maybe it's just me" is probably true. 2. Warehouse pays more - true, in the beginning. But warehouse maximum salary is pretty limited, and if you grow your development portfolio, then your hourly rate may be almost unlimited. For everything else, seems that you're having trouble with either your pitch message to get work, or maybe your skills are not that good, or maybe you're applying to the wrong jobs, hard to say. But if Upwork would be THAT bad as you describe, then no one would take any jobs from there. Meanwhile thousands of developers work there successfully, somehow.
Hi Laravel Business, I have started my career in the freelance market place from the third world (Bangladesh) since 2014. I have done 63 five star rating so far.
In the Cov-19 season, I got messages daily basis "Can you do that for me?". In this scenario, I am pretty much successful and I am very happy about it.
My Secret is, The only number #5 rule that you discuss today, which was worked for me.
Regards
I've just started and I have no idea how to get client :(
@ get started and do some of real-life projects, gather experience, clients will come automatically.
Of course you will get 5* rating for charging 50$ / project .
This is by no means a rude comment. Maybe in bangladesh you get to live one month with 50$ so that totally makes sense. I'm not taking new projects for under 1000€ , but I still remember my first e-commerce that i did for 300€. Keep up the good work. Cheers
From all these Upwork examples, you pick Exactly this that NO want Laravel or PHP! Useful video anyway! Keep going! :)
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It was kinda fun that that poor client hates PHP and MySQL LOL. Perhaps have had bad experiences with professionals so ended up blaming the technology.
This channel is low-key the best channel I am currently subscribed to.
I really like your content sir. Thanks for the tips, i'm from Kenya
Respect from Pakistan. 🇵🇰. Video saved in mobile to watch when i ever i wanted to gather confidence. 🙏🙏 Thanks Povilas.
You always bring the content I need..thanks a lot Im from Mozambique
Love your content. Love the pace and no BS.
Thanks for sharing this. so much love from 🇳🇬
Thanks for your great advice. I am from Bangladesh
Wow ,, it's always a pleasure to see someone from Egypt make it big and do great things ,,, 😍
from Egypt +1
Thank you so much! I am from Bangladesh and getting a freelance job here is very hard.😩
Ok let's "unpack" it and discuss. What have you tried to find freelance jobs? What clients have you pitched, how does your pitch look like, what answers are you getting? Can you show me how your online portfolio somewhere looks like? Any other difficulties because of culture or laws/payouts you're facing? Tell me more, I want to help you and others, at the same time.
Povilas Korop instead of complaining and concluding that its very hard. Your answer is quite ok to review our own efforts in hunting. Respect
@@PovilasKorop Thanks for your reply Povilas. I learned Laravel not more than 6-7 months ago. And your videos helped me a lot. Right now I am working on a website called Fiverr. I got two jobs after a few months of trying and they are at a very low price. One of them is an e-commerce website and the other one is a social media website (mytocu.com, there are many bugs and I am trying to fix it) similar to Instagram. There are many clients out there who want to get the job done at a very low price. So many third world country freelancers bid on this type of job at a very low price to get the job. That's what I am currently doing right now to build my portfolio. But to get a high pay job clients don't trust us for some reason.
great video
about what you said at 9:29 :):):):):):):) so true but now for 50$ I won't even turn on my pc let alone start phpstorm
It is what i need. Thank you!
Thank you very much. Sharing your experience.
I'm from Libya and i couldn't find any freelance website that supports our country, so imma give this a try.
Excellent Tips... Thank you
Which gig is best for college student
Thank You, Long live humanity
Thank you so much Korop!!
- So, you're from Lithuania. Okay, we have not worked with developers from Riga yet
- Oh no, not again
Great tips. Thank you!
good advice thanks&Respect
I’m a good year in programming. I live in a small town 200k in a middle of nowhere and I’m afraid to start even locally
Well, it may sound harsh, but as a motivation, I can say: if you are afraid to start, then don't start. Not starting is always easier.
Povilas Korop when did you understand that your skill is sufficient to apply for a serious job?
@@47Lancelot I never did. I just applied. And then got rejected. And then improved at skills I saw that were weak (including application pitching). And applied again. And again.
Povilas Korop So you weren’t afraid of not delivering the promised or fail completely?
@@47Lancelot No, I was committed to figuring out what I didn't know. And those first "risks" were for very small projects/budgets. At the very very beginning, I started with projects for online friends and local forums. I failed a few times, had to apologize and not receive the money. That's part of what clients get when they hire juniors for $100. It's their risk.
Thank you for sharing
Thank you!
Kindly make a video on how to host Laravel projects in virtual Linux server
I have an article about it: laraveldaily.com/how-to-deploy-laravel-projects-to-live-server-the-ultimate-guide/
Excellent content thanks,
8:19 funny how they just assume that PHP/Laravel/MySql are not scalable. I think they don’t even understand what scaling is.
Thank you ...
tks for your share
Good advice 👌
I watch this because I'm in Australia, and Australia from a tech point of view is pretty much the 3rd world.
im from Morocco. very hard
Ok, if it's hard, let's "unpack" it and discuss it. What have you tried to find freelance jobs? What clients have you pitched, how does your pitch look like, what answers are you getting? Can you show me how your online portfolio somewhere looks like? Any other difficulties because of culture or laws/payouts you're facing? Tell me more, I want to help you and others, at the same time.
Lithuania is former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which was a better neighbor / lord of post-ruined Kyiv Rus (which is now my native Ukraine), than Russia (consider name as stolen, real name is just Duchy of Moscow) can ever be, and it remains same progressive country, fastest to reach EU membership in 90thies, so, not a 3rd world anymore
I think upwork isn't good for beginners.
Which platform is better for beginners, then?
@@PovilasKorop o hi, I didn't know you reply. Upwork needs lots of training to use lately. They have put a test on the website, I have achieved 20%, however I've been checking upwork for jobs since a decade at least. Very rude from a company who takes a nice percentage off of the anyways low payment, just for maintaining the site. At least they should provide a tutorial if they need special knowledge to use the site. Anyway the money they pay for these works doesn't worth it to wake up in the morning, any warehouse pays more on a hourly rate. But I'm probably wrong. Which was interesting, they never replied to my messafes or application. As I said maybe it's just me.
ah to reply to you, if I knew, I wouldn't work in a factory instead of coding at home. :D
@@dgloria well, there's a lot I can comment on this, but generally yes, it's that hard from the beginning, as in any other job that requires skills - at first, you have to prove it, especially when you're "fighting" against hundreds of other candidates (that's the idea behind this video).
1. So if you are checking for jobs for a decade and haven't found anything reasonable, then yes, "maybe it's just me" is probably true.
2. Warehouse pays more - true, in the beginning. But warehouse maximum salary is pretty limited, and if you grow your development portfolio, then your hourly rate may be almost unlimited.
For everything else, seems that you're having trouble with either your pitch message to get work, or maybe your skills are not that good, or maybe you're applying to the wrong jobs, hard to say. But if Upwork would be THAT bad as you describe, then no one would take any jobs from there. Meanwhile thousands of developers work there successfully, somehow.
@@PovilasKorop yes, problem is I have to pay bills and work on upwork which doesnt't fit in a week.
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