Do create an e-commerce website, mobile application or any other type of site can quickly cost several thousand euros. Even the development of a prototype can go up to several thousand euros. It is therefore vital to find ways to develop a good product at a lower cost and that is what we will see today.
In this article you will see:
how to find a developer willing to develop your product or your mobile application free and quickly
how to convince the developer to work for you now, not in six months
3 arguments put forward in that he can not say no!
In this article you will see:
how to find a developer willing to develop your product or your mobile application free and quickly
how to convince the developer to work for you now, not in six months
3 arguments put forward in that he can not say no!
Prerequisite to find a developer willing to work for free
I said that it's not really free since you are going to barter skills. It should therefore have skills needed by the developer, something that really blocks and prevents it from moving forward. Consider an example. From a certain time and then I decided to start a market place in a very popular area that is expected to explode in 2015. It has nothing to do with web marketing and is a B2C oriented sector.
I did not want to invest 5,000 dollars to 10,000 dollars in the development of this market place because it's not my priority. That said, I was waiting for the opportunity to give life to my idea and I wanted to test it. Even if it does not work, I would have tried. Then there was a time, a developer who has many e-commerce sites to contact me. He asks me to help optimize Google Adwords campaigns because it does not lose money but did not win either. I quickly realized that this was a top priority for him. So I carried a quote including 3 days of creation of the campaign two days of creating landing pages and a monthly fee of optimization campaigns. Basically the estimate amounted to 5,000 dollars plus fixed 400 dollars per month.
After reading this quote he told me right away that this is not possible, too expensive for him. I asked him to let me think about a solution. I come back to him a few hours later and this is what I propose:
you do not give me a dime but you installed a clone that I bought for my marketplace. You adapt the clone my needs, you customized design and SEO optimization you are doing what I want. In exchange, I created you optimized Adwords campaign
each month, you provided me a developer to 2 hours a day in exchange for a monthly management of your campaigns. He agreed and did not even negotiate. I specify that it is based offshore and pays an average developer 800 dollars per month full time.
You get the idea? Of course, to succeed in this kind of negotiation you must have high demand skills that the developer does not have the means to pay through a service provider.
How to ensure that the development of your site or application will be well done?
You must proceed in the same way we do it when paying a development agency or a freelance developer. It is therefore essential to provide a maximum of elements the developer:
a schedule of the fullest possible loads
mockups of each page
photoshop mock-ups of each page
complete SEO recommendations
Regarding the specifications, I advise you to proceed by scenario. First, you need to break your site or application into two parts, namely front office (the site visible to all) and back office (the personal space of members who have created an account). Next, you need to list all the pages and detailing all. Can you write scenarios. For example, for my marketplace, on the home page I will say:
a logo at the top left.
right, a Facebook icon and one for Twtter
below, a large banner that takes the entire width of the page
an image background
both centered buttons. The first button is red with the text "free registration". The second button is black with the text "watch the video"
and so on
Then I will then explain what the developer has to happen when the visitor performs an action. I'll write things like:
when the visitor clicks on the icon Twitter, they are redirected to my Twitter account is linked twitter.com/videoadw. If the visitor clicks on the red button "free registration" a pop up opens.
In this pop up there is a field to enter an email address and a facebook connect button. If the visitor completes a valid address, it automatically receives an activation e-mail sent Mailjet then he is redirected to the page "my account-welcome.php". On this page, there are 5 fields to fill these fields are. etc.
You must do so for all pages of your site and you should consider all situations.
Certainly it is long but it is the only solution to obtain a correct result quickly.
How puncture web developers and mobile?
Now, it remains to find developers. I insist but you are competent in a field such as web web marketing, it will be more simple. Do not waste your time to contact the developers if you have nothing concrete to offer them. So needless to say that you will pay them when your site will work and that you will get the sales.
The best method is to pay a developer to a first mission of a few hundred dollars. This allows you to establish contact and see how it works. You can do your research on sites like codeur.com, odesk.com etc.
You can also use my website Teamizy that connects web project developers and potential partners. To maximize your chances of success, tell the developer that you are willing to pay him a fixed 500 dollars (for one week Dev no more) and 30% stake in the project.
Finally, another very good method is to go in computer engineering schools as SupInfo. They are full of student developers who want to get their hands on concrete projects.
Again, no miracle methods, nothing is easy.
I said that it's not really free since you are going to barter skills. It should therefore have skills needed by the developer, something that really blocks and prevents it from moving forward. Consider an example. From a certain time and then I decided to start a market place in a very popular area that is expected to explode in 2015. It has nothing to do with web marketing and is a B2C oriented sector.
I did not want to invest 5,000 dollars to 10,000 dollars in the development of this market place because it's not my priority. That said, I was waiting for the opportunity to give life to my idea and I wanted to test it. Even if it does not work, I would have tried. Then there was a time, a developer who has many e-commerce sites to contact me. He asks me to help optimize Google Adwords campaigns because it does not lose money but did not win either. I quickly realized that this was a top priority for him. So I carried a quote including 3 days of creation of the campaign two days of creating landing pages and a monthly fee of optimization campaigns. Basically the estimate amounted to 5,000 dollars plus fixed 400 dollars per month.
After reading this quote he told me right away that this is not possible, too expensive for him. I asked him to let me think about a solution. I come back to him a few hours later and this is what I propose:
you do not give me a dime but you installed a clone that I bought for my marketplace. You adapt the clone my needs, you customized design and SEO optimization you are doing what I want. In exchange, I created you optimized Adwords campaign
each month, you provided me a developer to 2 hours a day in exchange for a monthly management of your campaigns. He agreed and did not even negotiate. I specify that it is based offshore and pays an average developer 800 dollars per month full time.
You get the idea? Of course, to succeed in this kind of negotiation you must have high demand skills that the developer does not have the means to pay through a service provider.
How to ensure that the development of your site or application will be well done?
You must proceed in the same way we do it when paying a development agency or a freelance developer. It is therefore essential to provide a maximum of elements the developer:
a schedule of the fullest possible loads
mockups of each page
photoshop mock-ups of each page
complete SEO recommendations
Regarding the specifications, I advise you to proceed by scenario. First, you need to break your site or application into two parts, namely front office (the site visible to all) and back office (the personal space of members who have created an account). Next, you need to list all the pages and detailing all. Can you write scenarios. For example, for my marketplace, on the home page I will say:
a logo at the top left.
right, a Facebook icon and one for Twtter
below, a large banner that takes the entire width of the page
an image background
both centered buttons. The first button is red with the text "free registration". The second button is black with the text "watch the video"
and so on
Then I will then explain what the developer has to happen when the visitor performs an action. I'll write things like:
when the visitor clicks on the icon Twitter, they are redirected to my Twitter account is linked twitter.com/videoadw. If the visitor clicks on the red button "free registration" a pop up opens.
In this pop up there is a field to enter an email address and a facebook connect button. If the visitor completes a valid address, it automatically receives an activation e-mail sent Mailjet then he is redirected to the page "my account-welcome.php". On this page, there are 5 fields to fill these fields are. etc.
You must do so for all pages of your site and you should consider all situations.
Certainly it is long but it is the only solution to obtain a correct result quickly.
How puncture web developers and mobile?
Now, it remains to find developers. I insist but you are competent in a field such as web web marketing, it will be more simple. Do not waste your time to contact the developers if you have nothing concrete to offer them. So needless to say that you will pay them when your site will work and that you will get the sales.
The best method is to pay a developer to a first mission of a few hundred dollars. This allows you to establish contact and see how it works. You can do your research on sites like codeur.com, odesk.com etc.
You can also use my website Teamizy that connects web project developers and potential partners. To maximize your chances of success, tell the developer that you are willing to pay him a fixed 500 dollars (for one week Dev no more) and 30% stake in the project.
Finally, another very good method is to go in computer engineering schools as SupInfo. They are full of student developers who want to get their hands on concrete projects.
Again, no miracle methods, nothing is easy.
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