Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Going IT Alone: The Handbook for Freelance and Contract Software Developers

You're reading from   Going IT Alone: The Handbook for Freelance and Contract Software Developers A detailed guide to self-employment for software and web developers - from identifying your target market, through to managing your time, finances, and client behavior

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783001408
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Concepts
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Leon Brown Leon Brown
Author Profile Icon Leon Brown
Leon Brown
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Going IT Alone: The Handbook for Freelance and Contract Software Developers
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
Preface
1. Introducing Freelancing 2. Positioning Yourself in the Market FREE CHAPTER 3. Defining Your Business Model 4. Creating a Brand 5. Networking, Marketing, and Sales 6. An Introduction to Client Types 7. Managing Clients 8. Negotiation 9. Software Development Resources, Patterns and Strategies 10. Software Development Methodology 11. Creating Quotes and Estimates 12. Project Management Appendix

Components


The first step in building your Business Model Canvas is identifying the different components that will make your business model. Every business is unique in some way, so whereas you may use the same general model as many other software businesses, there will always be some difference in the way you are structured to operate. Knowing in detail how your model works and what makes it unique will allow you to operate and make decisions that play to your strengths.

 

"If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril."

 
 --Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Value proposition

Starting the design of your business model with a definition of what you provide to your customers will help to identify the requirements for each of the other components in your model. The value proposition isn't about what you do, but the reason why people buy from you; what we do as software developers is write code, but the reasons that motivate our customers and clients to buy from us is what the...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime