I'm a web freelancer who plans to build some landing pages for my clients (to promote their products and capture emails).

I'll build the landing page myself with some HTML/CSS/JS. But then I'd like to give my clients some kind of backoffice so they can edit the content of the page itself if needed.

How can I easily "convert" my static landing pages into a really simple CMS for my clients? I'm looking for something lightweight.

Like adding some info in my html tags, then running some scripts, and I automatically get some kind of backoffice to edit the page, with no database needed.

Thanks!

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Already read it, and it's great! But it doesn't explain how to start getting clients from scratch.

> Expanding your network is a great way to increase your 'luck surface'.

That's what I'm trying to do. But I feel like going to developer meetups is going to be a very slow way to expend my network. Any other ideas?

However there are developer meetups almost every day in Paris, but I don't see any for business people or marketers.

> If you are only talking to 10 people a month, and you close a deal with 10% of them, that's 1 new client a month.

If I follow the plan described in my post, I will be talking to ~30 people a months. But they are just developers spending time in meetups, not people actively looking for freelancers. So I won't get 10% of them as clients, maybe 1% or less...

I'm a self employed guy living in Paris. I know how to code (mostly websites), and I'm pretty good at conversion optimisation (landing pages, AB testing, email marketing, etc). In 2017, I'd like to give freelancing a try, but how can I find my first few clients? My current plan looks something like this:

Go to 2-3 developer meetups per week; talk to 4-5 people per meetup; introduce myself as a web freelancer; be friendly/helpful; exchange emails; wait to be contacted.

With this I would be talking to ~10 developers per week, and I feel like it will take me months to just get one client... What I am missing?

Any advice on this would be really helpful. Thanks!

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I love the vueJS framework, and I'm looking for a side project. So I was thinking: maybe my side project could be to teach people vueJS. Something like: start a blog, build an email list, and later sell an ebook. And I have 2 main questions:

1. How can I make sure people are interested in this before I actually start creating content on vueJS? Basically how to validate the need for vue.js tutorials?

2. And what is the best format to teach vue.js? Written tutorials, youtube videos, one-to-one teaching, ...?

Thanks for your help!

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I'm a self employed guy living in Paris. I know how to code (mostly websites), and I'm pretty good a conversion optimisation (landing pages, AB testing, etc.)

After reading the thread "Ask HN: How much do you earn through software freelancing?" [0], I would like to givre freelancing a try. But I don't know how to get started.

First: what should I freelance in? Build website? Give CRO advice? Run A/B tests?

Then: how to actually find clients? Is networking the main option? Where should I go to network?

Any advice on this would be really helpful. Thanks!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12894209

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I'm subscribed to a dozen of blogs, and they send me on average one email per week each. I love reading this content, but it's starting to clutter my inbox.

Do you know any app/website that let you manage all of these subscriptions? Being able to see these emails without actually getting into my inbox would be awesome.

Thanks!

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I'm curious: how did you market your game? What made you go in the top charts?

And as mentioned in my post, Github doesn't let you have some kind of htaccess, so no 301 redirect are possible. And I need that feature.

> 2. A CDN, for super fast loading.

I just want my website to load fast from anywhere in the world. I especially want this since page load time impact SEO. Something like cloudflare.com which has a free plan.

> 5. And not expensive, less than $10 per month.

$10 per month excluding the domain name. I don't think that's unresonable for a simple static html website. As mentioned above there are some CDN that have a free tier.

Overall I'm trying to find the simplest way to host my static website online, and make sure it works well with search engine (ssl and fast to load). All of that for less than $10 per month.

I'm building a static website in HTML/JS, and I'm wondering what's the best place to host it online. I'm especially concerned about getting a good SEO.

Here's what I'm looking for:

1. A custom domain with ssl, for an httpS url.

2. A CDN, for super fast loading.

3. Be able to create 301 redirects with something similar to an htaccess. So it seems GitHub page are not an option.

4. Something simple to use, because I don't want to lose time learning/configuring stuff. So the Amazon combo S3+route53+cloudfront won't be possible for me.

5. And not expensive, less than $10 per month.

Any idea? Thanks!

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I recently realized that a lot of people use Excel in their day job, yet most of them don't really know what they are doing. They could save hours of work per week if they knew how to filter data, use the VLOOKUP function, play with pivot tables, and so on.

I'm a web developper who knows a lot about Excel, and I'm actually good at writing tutorials. So I'm thinking about making a website with Excel tutorials, an email course, and a paid course (I have a lot of free time for the next 12 months).

It seems like a huge market, but it also looks like there are already a lot of websites doing that. Though most of the tutorials I saw are either out of date or not very clear. So I have 2 questions :

1. Do you think it's a good idea or not? 2. How would you get traffic for this website, besides SEO?

Thanks! :)

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