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Going IT Alone: The Handbook for Freelance and Contract Software Developers

A detailed guide to self-employment for software and web developers - from identifying your target market, through to managing your time, finances, and client behavior

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|Sep 2025
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    Book Description

    What you will learn

    • Identify and understand your target market. Propose the value of what your service or product offers. Build a business model that identifies key entities required to make your software business work. Develop marketing a marketing strategy that targets the right customer segments and produces the sales you need to be profitable. Analyze information to make better decisions and understand your business performance. Understand people through observation and use this to your advantage in project management and negotiation. Improve accuracy of estimates for time and costs of your software projects. Understand the relationship between code and the business strategy. Identify software features from a business perspective, allowing you to prioritise must have features from those that are less important to your profitability. Avoid the trap of increasing software development time and costs from features that provide no benefit or sales increase.

    Who this book is for

    Table of Contents

      PDF ISBN: 978-1-78300-141-5
      Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
      Copyright owner: © 2016 Packt Publishing Limited
      Publication date: 2025
      Language: English
      Pages: 376