Freelancers can build credibility fast by taking short consulting gigs on platforms like codementor.io. Half-hour sessions generate real reviews and testimonials that replace empty promises, making it easier to land bigger projects and develop skills through constant variety.
So I talk to people all the time who are freelancers or want to get into freelancing or just want to become technical professionals in general. And one of the things I'll often tell them to do is to go do small consulting engagements in order to build up their social proof. This allows you to have more people who have said, yes, this person has delivered for me and done extraordinary work for me. And this person I really want to work with again, allows you to build reputation in the market and provable reputation you get to use with others. This puts you in a position where instead of making claims about what you're passionate about or what you want to be doing in the future, you can talk about what you've successfully done in the past, even if it is at a smaller scale. Now, one of the great things is it's very no-code-like because you get to do this with small turns. I find services like codementor.io are fantastic for this because you can do engagements, they last maybe half an hour, you can have a good impact on people, you can ask immediately for a review, and then you have a review that's being mediated by the, by the platform itself. Doing more small turns allows you to help people, allows you to build social proof, it allows you to build your skills. That's great.
