The reason I’m freelancing is because I love gaming against other people. I game against others for organic traffic. It’s a big game!
I am always getting leads via Linkedin though, and that’s hard to skip by each week as it takes up a large portion of my day. A lot of offers are starting to become “head turners” however in a lot of ways it’s more of the same work and less access to cash, expensing, and making decisions I feel are right.
Job offers haven’t changed in the past 5 years…. until just recently someone helped me with my resume.
I will admit jobs are talking about “director” however I know I look like a baby so the chances of me being in a director role feels limited. So I’ve been throttling that wrinkle cream ding ding and now I look older than fuck. It’s great!
Amount of experience doesn’t matter in the eyes of a lot of people when you get past a certain point in life, I think it matters a lot and of course whether or not you’re supporting or creating something net new is important to understand too.
A lot of people, they assume and place you. If you don’t fight or sell yourself better, you’re going to be that person.
Now, having shaken my resume enough… I see I have 12 years of experience, I realize this is the “oh shit moment.”
I’m scaling up my tableau consultancy, I’ve needed to pay two different people to help me while also helping clients however mostly focused on my family and building new business relationships. Being able to have two other people helping two different clients is really interesting. Also having them work together on one client is awesome too. Before I was always doing the freelancing work.
The reason I am freelancing is because I found path. The path is companies like Upwork, Fiverr, etc.. they make their traffic mostly by harvesting a lot of the same style of keywords in a webpage. I figured how to puncture through their ranking algorithm. I studied their ranking for a few years. I watched how they dumped money into advertising, even though there’s not that much money to make in this realm. Thousands of people do click, however less than a percent will buy. A lot of times you’re clicking yourself, or your friends are checking your page out. However each click is extremely valuable.
I freelance because I understand the value of each of those clicks, I can even tell you an exact dollar amount each click gives me because each click is aggregated I’m scored against other people.
A lot of times these clicks are robots trying to drive down my averages. However I block only the annoying bots, and let the stupid bots continue to do their stupid stuff. I don’t mind the clicks, I enjoy the clicks, and I don’t think the fake robots are driving down my ranking. If anything they are indicating to google that I’m not only quality, but I got people trying to hack my ass, and I’m still fucken here.
Freelancing is a lot like star wars galaxies before the engineers fucked it all up and they deleted the game.
A long time ago, in a server far away, they built a MMORPG, which stands for massive multiplayer online role playing game. Where a bunch of fucken nerds like me run around and pretend to be friends in order to gain off of one another in a digital enterprise we called clans, guilds, or whatever.. maybe groups?
In the clan you build houses, and they can’t be destroyed. Also you can place NPC homes which can be destroyed and they fight out the “red vs blue” style. People from the other team blow your shit up, destroy that shit and that’s the name of the game. People blowing up your gear, npc homes, and other fancy things that are hard to build and find, and craft etc.
Freelancers are always attacking each others websites for more money, and the pressure grows each day because you get more competitors the longer you rank on the internet for organic traffic.
It’s a game they play against you. It’s nonstop fake comments, hack attempts, and abuse of your website and applications to make you fail, crack, explode, and eventually quit.
I’m not quitting.
I’ve been playing a lot of VR which is nice but it’s not everything. However it’s a lot like freelancing.
I have to mute everyone otherwise I’m not having fun, and I’m in a tense mood with how rough everyone is getting with each other these days.
The companies like upwork and fiverr try to rank on many things and if you do those things you can out rank them and earn that traffic by building a wordpress website. If you built something better than a wordpress website it would be easier to rank higher. Cheers.
Sorry for the rambling, last month really was a gas. I’m tired after staying up late trying to get all those blogs done and be available to my family. A blog a day was incredible difficult and I should be able to write something decent in the future. Until then, don’t forget to add me on twitter, where I do micro blogging much more often.