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Shall I count my management work hours if I outsource the project?

The questions is simple. I am outsourcing a project which I cannot handle. And I am taking percentage on every hour my contractor worked. I am closely monitoring this project and do all project management thing which sometimes take 1 hour a day, and…
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Freelancing while being Employed in Germany

I am an expat living in Germany for 2 years now. My question is how to report one-time freelance earnings and how to register as a part-time and one-time freelancer, considering my situation: I am a full-time employee My visa permits…
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Dealing with potential partners

I have been doing work on my own and with a team distributed around multiple countries. I get projects and we work on them together. Recently a startup company, which is considered a competitor approached me and the guy asked me to help them get…
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Another client wants to buy a challenging work I did for one client

Sometime ago, I did a challenging project for a client as a freelancer, and he uses my work as core of the software he sells. Basically my work is the main feature of that software, and he just ship it as part of his Software and make profit from…
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Best behaviour to have in meetings with people trying to impress / confuse others with unnecessary technical jargon

(excuse me for my not good english) This happens me once in a while and happened lately: I am in a meeting in the same room with my client and someone (one person or more) from a web agency, or some company's salesman, or someone from marketing…
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When working with another freelancer, how do we resolve disagreements on what projects to take?

Two freelancers have partnered up who both specialize in different aspects of Web development. They bill the client for all of the work done and then split the profits evenly, so both parties spend an equal share of time working on a particular…
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How to estimate project costs - Mail (Postal) survey?

A brief background on myself: I am a database developer that does freelance work for multiple companies. I generally manage data for these companies for large projects -- primarily surveys in mining regions in Africa and Asia. Recently, I was asked…
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Sending advertising offer letters to local businesses

I'm a professional software engineer in my late 20s with a MSc in Computer Science and 3 years work experience in small companies (7+ years programming experience). So, I'd like to develop custom enterprise software for small businesses. By the term…
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How are images, icons, videos, logos, etc. budgeted, and who chooses them, the developer or the client?

Are images, icons, videos, logos, etc. included in the final budget or are they charged later when the developer has to buy them? And also, who chooses them? Are they chosen by the developer, taking into account the design needs of the website?…
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A dress code during a freelance interview?

I have been interviewed lately and during the interview a client told me that he liked my interview dress code. I was quite surprised since I had nothing special but a polo-shirt. I asked the client why he complimented my outfit since I was not…
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What expectations are there of support when handing development over to a different contractor after my contract is terminated?

This may be a better fit for a different site, but I couldn't really find one that served the intersection of software engineering and business norms. My primary concern here is about something I thought was a business norm: a couple of hours of…
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Client saying Another freelancer did the job while on contract

Recently, I got an offer to make a web page for a company on Upwork, The client and I agreed on 10 days to finish the job and I accepted the offer and started working on the application. 7 days after the contract started the client sent me a…
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Do all clients requests, some off them or none at all?

Let me start off by saying I made a lot of mistakes on my end taking on a project. Now I am in a position where I have a software development project that is a bit of a nightmare and suffering from mission creep. Can you provide advice on what…
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Where can a front end web developer start freelancing?

Let's say you're beginning web development, and you want to start earning money. Where do you get started? I know a portfolio would be a start, but I don't know where to apply just as a front-end developer for jobs. I don't know and don't want to…
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How to offer services when organization is looking for an Employee

I am an independent contractor and recently saw a job posting for the same work I do as a contractor. I do not want to be an employee but would like the organization to know that I specialize in that type of work. How do I approach the organization…
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