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How To Charge 10x - 100x More Than The Average Nigerian (web) Programmer by sadcheese: 5:33pm On Nov 11, 2014 |
I just got back to Nigeria (after about 5+ years in California) and have been pretty disappointed with the standard programmer wage over here. As a programmer in SF(San Fransisco), I was making roughly $1000 per web project and getting about 4-6 projects a month. So you can understand my shock when a well respected company offered to pay me less than N100,000 to do some web work for them. This is what they call an "insulting rate" Since then I've been able to score some freelance gigs and brief employment opportunities that have brought me back up to my rate ($55/hour). I'll get to how in a minute From what I've seen, programmers over here allow themselves to be taking advantage of and in doing so. This is what is driving our average salary into the ground. If you're curious on what I did to start charging Nigerian companies and Individuals about N9000 for an hour of my time, feel free to look up the following concepts Copy writing(Marketing) Content Marketing Problem Isolation Market Differentiation Idea generation(in regards to monetization) How to sell a Quality product If your time is too valuable to go through the ups and downs of learning these skills on your own(or you just want to see my handsome face), I'll be happy to teach a month-long class where I help you make your first N50,000+ This class will not be free and will not happen if less than 9 people sign up(Not worth my time). Also, a prerequisite to this class is to be able to program in Html/Css at the basic level. The Class would be focused on learning to make that first N50,000 and then learning to double and triple your results. This is how I got started in SF and Lagos so I know it works. Let me know what you think. PS: I can't really understand how you guys write here in Nairaland so please use some plain English on me. PSS: I'm leaving for South America in February so offer ends then. |
Re: How To Charge 10x - 100x More Than The Average Nigerian (web) Programmer by WhiZTiM(m): 7:37pm On Nov 11, 2014 |
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Re: How To Charge 10x - 100x More Than The Average Nigerian (web) Programmer by YourCrush: 10:18pm On Nov 11, 2014 |
Op, try and upgrade dis outdated trick of urs, else u go old o. 1 Like |
Re: How To Charge 10x - 100x More Than The Average Nigerian (web) Programmer by sadcheese: 8:13am On Nov 12, 2014 |
YourCrush: Well I already gave out what I'm going to teach for free so you can choose to believe that it's helpful or not. Here are some more resources Research: Derek Halpern(how to sell without being salesy video) Fizzle Show Podcast Foolish Adventure podcast. If these dont make you over N50k in the next week then yes I am fool of shit. Otherwise, Shut the hell up. |
Re: How To Charge 10x - 100x More Than The Average Nigerian (web) Programmer by stonemind(f): 3:35pm On Nov 12, 2014 |
lol Mr Americana god dey watch you through my IPhone 6+ HD camera oooo |
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