Fact: Hiring a programmer sucks; everyone has horror stories. Good, affordable programmers are rare and very often constantly booked solid.
Fact: I am a programmer and some of the tips I will give will probably cramp programmers style (ironically, including my own).
If you have ever talked to me in person about business, chances are I have at some point told you that if I was ever to create an info product it would be on just this subject. As of now I don’t have any serious plans to do so and I would rather help you folks out instead of hording the information.
Fair warning this post will not go into wear to find programmers, but instead focus on how to screen a list of canidates once you have them.
Hint: Standards.
How to Make One Thousand Two Hundred Ninety Seven Dollars and Thirty Six Cents with DFHU
To follow up to the “How to Hire a Coder” Post, I would like to offer you the chance to work with me personally, FOR FREE.
Do you have an idea for a cool and marketable IM/SEO related web application?
Think, Internet Marketing or Search Engine Optimization tools that could be sold on DFHU.oRG.
Here is the deal: Lots of people who are newer to IM have some really cool ideas for Widgets, Web-Apps, Plugins, etc… but for whatever reason they do not get them made (maybe they wish to invest their dollars elsewhere or may not yet have built the confidence).
Many times people have me create a widget for them, they use it, make some good money with it’s utility, but fail to go the next step and make money off the widget itself.
If you have an idea for a widget that you think can be sold on places like dfhu.org then you could make some monies.
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