8 Ways to Acquire More Clients as Freelance Developer

A Freelance developer in Mumbai is always looking at ways to keep the pipeline flowing and work to proceed as usual. However there are situations when your competitor seems to undercut and snatch your clients. Don’t get disappointed, there are ways to enhance your abilities in landing more clients for your business. So to help you out, we have just stated the easy ways to do that.

• Work on Open Source Projects - Get involved in open source projects where you can exhibit your work and build your reputation as a developer with a purpose. There are numerous open source projects where you can showcase your talent and add value to the project. Your clients can see your contribution value in your GitHub commits.
• Work free of cost for the time being - Most developer sulk at doing fee work. However this has its own benefits. Suppose you have a dream client you wish to work with, if you know you can develop some valuable part of their website, create a portion of the same and send it for free. Then contact them. Your pitch would be the strongest.
• Create a niche for yourself - It is always recommended to create a niche for yourself in an exclusive domain which immediately slashes down competition by a significant margin. In this process, you can focus on development of your solo domain and master the same.
• Have a referral Engine - You should have a referral mechanism in place. If you have recently worked on a project with distinction, your clients will be happy. Now this happy client will give you referrals worth a lot of money. As per a survey done by Heinz Marketing, it is found that 84% of B2B business decisions are made with the process of a referral.
• ‘Be Everywhere’ should be your mantra - If you want your clients to find you before your competition, be everywhere at least on the web.  Your company should be available on all social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat etc. It is also advisable on the present on the social media sites where your possible potential client hangs around e.g LinkedIn and Angel.co profiles.
• Socialize with fellow freelancers - It is really helpful if you stop seeing all other freelancers as competition and see them as a part of your community. It will be helpful to build a rapport first by sharing their work on social media and let them know that you are interested.  Once they are aware about you, then you may help them with their work and viceversa.  Make it a point to connect with freelancer compatriots who complement your domain.
• Keep an eye on Select Job Boards - There are a lot of job boards, which are filled with low paying jobs and high competition, you should avoid these.  There are a lot of other job boards that are more oriented towards development specialities.  Over here you will find high quality clients looking for specialized freelancers. We recommend the below Job Boards -

• We Work Remotely 
• Authentic Jobs 
• 99u Freelance Jobs 
• OnSite 
• Smashing Jobs 
• Coworks 
• Gun.io 
• KropCodeable.io

Write good content - Content Marketing can be a very prosperous way to get new leads in free lance business.  Blogging and tutorial videos can lead to a great awareness about your brand or company.  It would make you stand out. You also need to put in extra efforts to be the present everywhere you can in the digital network.