Why you should work for FREE
29 Aug 2023
Working for free early on forces you to develop skills and build client trust, which eventually leads to paid opportunities. It's a deliberate strategy to improve faster than you would otherwise.
Working for free early on forces you to develop skills and build client trust, which eventually leads to paid opportunities. It's a deliberate strategy to improve faster than you would otherwise.
If you start for free, it often translates into paid work. It doesn't take very long for the person to go, this is amazing. I want to pay you right? They will throw money at you. If you can prove that you can do it, the money is easy. But if you can't do it and they're not happy with the free work, then you shouldn't be charging for it in the first place. It's an uncomfortable forcing function for you to learn. Am I creating something for this person that's worth being paid for? And if it's not, go do more free work to get your skill up right? And if it is, they throw money at you. It seems seems like it's the longer road, but it is the shortcut because it's the forcing function for your skill, and the skill is the hard part.
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