{"id":1265,"date":"2009-11-13T10:56:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T14:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2009.newyork.wordcamp.org\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2009-11-13T08:59:53","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T12:59:53","slug":"successful-wordpress-consulting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyork.wordcamp.org\/2009\/successful-wordpress-consulting\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeding your family with WordPress development"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"Mark Jaquith\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/da9d0241af648f9514d79c9eb0bd7566?s=100\" alt=\"Photo of Mark Jaquith\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Jaquith<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m not just one of the Lead Developers of WordPress (a volunteer position) &#8212; I&#8217;m also a freelance WordPress developer and consultant. WordPress consulting quite literally puts food on my table. With a wife, a mortgage, and a kid on the way, I can&#8217;t afford to treat WordPress as a hobby. If you are an aspiring WordPress consultant, someone who is doing WordPress work &#8220;on the side&#8221; and is considering going full time, or if you are earning your living working with WordPress but want to improve your standing in the marketplace, you can&#8217;t miss my Saturday morning session on &#8220;Feeding your family with WordPress development.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be sharing my story &#8212; from high school and college dropout to WordPress Ninja &#8212; my tips, a few tricks, and some pitfalls to avoid.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the topics I&#8217;ll address:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to get started<\/li>\n<li>Setting your rates<\/li>\n<li>Hourly, or by-the-project?<\/li>\n<li>Picking your clients<\/li>\n<li>Keeping your skills sharp<\/li>\n<li>Improving your standing in the community and the marketplace<\/li>\n<li>How to keep your sanity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Come with questions. I&#8217;ll see you there at 10:15am, and I look forwarding to competing with you in the WordPress marketplace!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not just one of the Lead Developers of WordPress (a volunteer position) &#8212; I&#8217;m also a freelance WordPress developer and consultant. WordPress consulting quite literally puts food on my table. With a wife, a mortgage, and a kid on the way, I can&#8217;t afford to treat WordPress as a hobby. If you are an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2545,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[289,288,144,290],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-topics","tag-business","tag-consulting","tag-development","tag-success"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyork.wordcamp.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyork.wordcamp.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyork.wordcamp.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyork.wordcamp.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyork.wordcamp.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newyork.wordcamp.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"https:\/\/newyork.wordcamp.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyork.wordcamp.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyork.wordcamp.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyork.wordcamp.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}