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10 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Be Building WordPress Sites For Clients

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When a client approaches an individual or company to build them a new or upgrade their old site to WordPress they expect the person doing the work to know exactly what they are doing, right?. I mean you wouldn’t take your car to be repaired at the local grocery store by a worker who isn’t a mechanic but has read a few tutorials online in their free time.

Unfortunately this is exactly what is happening to some unfortunate people within the WordPress eco-system who are making bad decisions on who they hire to build their new but in the end not so awesome website for them.

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The Freelancer’s Complete Guide to Finding Website Clients

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When you have a regular job, you tend to be tied down doing it from 9 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon. This happens not two or three but five days a week.

Looking forward to the weekend is your weekly plea and hating Mondays is the new fun thing to do.

Some are able to build their careers and use this to gain traction in their respective fields. The others just work and look forward to the next pay.

The waiting goes on for days, then weeks, then years. And you notice that you have spent your life doing something that took the most time out of your life. Only to realize that you scrambled to make a living, but not really LIVING.

You made a living to have a life not fully experienced.

Whether we admit it or not, we need it for the money. We work our a$$e$ off to have money.

This is the new normal. Sad, but true.

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Getting More Money with Fewer Clients: A Guide for WordPress Developers

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WordPress developers subsist in a cutthroat industry. No wonder many developers are willing to play price-cut wars with others in the business. Well, there’s nothing wrong with accepting low-paying gigs. It’s a valid method of getting a newbie developer’s foot on the door of opportunity.

But while signing up for low paying jobs can allow you to break into the industry, this way of thinking can sure open up a whole new can of worms. Developers who focus on low-cost projects may find themselves caught in a trap, both in their work and finances.

If you are a WordPress developer who has had enough of the burdens put on by low paying projects, then it’s time to break free. Today, you will learn how to finally get more rewarding gigs with few well-paying clients.

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