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This tips are meant for emerging software developer who want to stand alone or planning to setup their own incorporation, this are my advice has 10years experience in software development, but i would like to drop this few lines maybe it will be of great value and guide line to somebody.

For software developers, the main advantages of corporate employment -- job security, a clear path for career advancement, retirement benefits, health insurance -- are rapidly disappearing. Yet the demand for programming skills and services has never been greater. It might just be prime time to pack up that cubicle and go independent.

Being an independent software developer can be a dream life. But dreams include nightmares, so it's best to be prepared.

Being your own boss, setting your own hours, working only on projects that interest you -- all while earning a lot more money -- are possible when you strike out on your own as an independent software developer.


1. Know why you're doing this

Before you write that letter of resignation, think about why you want to become an independent software developer. Do you want to work from home? Do you want to travel? Do you want more money, fewer hours, or both? What are your main motivations for making this change? Write them down somewhere because chances are all of your goals will not be met immediately. When things get tough, that list will remind you of why you are doing this, and that can make the difference between giving up and success.

Above all, understand and accept that "going independent" means "starting a business," and a business is very different from a job.

2. Plan before you quit

Going independent can give you greater say in the kind of work you do. And in the world of software, there are many possibilities; you don't have to do exactly what you do at your current job. Consulting, development, products, training, and other services are all viable paths to independence. Make a list of everything you can do, everything you'd like to do, and everything you might be interested in learning how to do. Having that list will help prepare you to recognize opportunities when they arise.

Similarly, make a list of all the ways you can find and attract clients. When you make the leap, you'll want to be in a position where you have more offers than you can accept.


3. Securing your first contract is key

The first contract can be the hardest, or the easiest. It is not uncommon for someone to resign as an employee then turn right around and contract with their former employer, doing exactly the same job as before, just with a different financial arrangement -- but it is not guaranteed. Another option is to contact a recruiting firm and have them find you a position that you like -- and make the terms of engagement corp-to-corp. This is how I started: I lost my "secure" job, and frankly, it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I called a friendly recruiter when I got home and had my first independent gig two days later -- at almost twice the pay.

will continue tomorrow..

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This tips are meant for emerging software developer who want to stand alone or planning to setup their own incorporation, this are my advice has 10years experience in software development, but i would like to drop this few lines maybe it will be of great value and guide line to somebody.

For software developers, the main advantages of corporate employment -- job security, a clear path for career advancement, retirement benefits, health insurance -- are rapidly disappearing. Yet the demand for programming skills and services has never been greater. It might just be prime time to pack up that cubicle and go independent.

Being an independent software developer can be a dream life. But dreams include nightmares, so it's best to be prepared.

Being your own boss, setting your own hours, working only on projects that interest you -- all while earning a lot more money -- are possible when you strike out on your own as an independent software developer.


1. Know why you're doing this

Before you write that letter of resignation, think about why you want to become an independent software developer. Do you want to work from home? Do you want to travel? Do you want more money, fewer hours, or both? What are your main motivations for making this change? Write them down somewhere because chances are all of your goals will not be met immediately. When things get tough, that list will remind you of why you are doing this, and that can make the difference between giving up and success.

Above all, understand and accept that "going independent" means "starting a business," and a business is very different from a job.

2. Plan before you quit

Going independent can give you greater say in the kind of work you do. And in the world of software, there are many possibilities; you don't have to do exactly what you do at your current job. Consulting, development, products, training, and other services are all viable paths to independence. Make a list of everything you can do, everything you'd like to do, and everything you might be interested in learning how to do. Having that list will help prepare you to recognize opportunities when they arise.

Similarly, make a list of all the ways you can find and attract clients. When you make the leap, you'll want to be in a position where you have more offers than you can accept.


3. Securing your first contract is key

The first contract can be the hardest, or the easiest. It is not uncommon for someone to resign as an employee then turn right around and contract with their former employer, doing exactly the same job as before, just with a different financial arrangement -- but it is not guaranteed. Another option is to contact a recruiting firm and have them find you a position that you like -- and make the terms of engagement corp-to-corp. This is how I started: I lost my "secure" job, and frankly, it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I called a friendly recruiter when I got home and had my first independent gig two days later -- at almost twice the pay.

will continue tomorrow..

Written By Olumide Kuforiji
www.qchasesms.com
www.softchaseng.com

At my company the management decide to share the secret of our continues profit so as to let the success go round...take your time to read this article and make the best out of it. I do not have a bulk SMS business and am not planning to have one (this may change, who knows) but I know a lot of persons are interested in starting one and you are one of them. So to help persons learn the ins and outs, and the outright steps to take before actually launching the business, I have done intensive research and I think I should tell it out to my loyal reader’s. Every business has in itself the potential for profit, without bias mind it’s a profitable business (bulk SMS business in Nigeria). Though the profitability varies from person to persons based on a combination of factors like knowledge of the business in (and this I am uncovering here), competitive analysis, market knowledge, customer relationship, focus determination, consistency, customer relationship, passion business habit, personal habit.
Though all this affect the profit margin of this business and any other business lol, there are also steps that must be followed and these steps are part of the backup to any business. What are those steps? First is;

FEASIBILITY RESEARCH STUDY:
As is in every business, there is crucial need for feasibility study so also BULK SMS Business In Nigeria is not left but, because during this study you get to know your target market, cheap and reliable companies with best reselling plan and price tag and also it teaches you to know how to tag price your units to beat the whooping competition. With conception we now believe that the first steps to take when venturing into the bulk SMS in Nigeria is to do in-depth research and study into the business, see into what others already in the business are doing and how there do it. Absolutely when you do this, there would be no cause for alarm-sparked mistakes because cautions will be in play.

FINANCIAL PLAN FOR THE BUSINESS:
Back to those days when bulk SMS business was in its early bird stage, starting a bulk SMS business was a huge break up both in capital and time, but gone are those days, now a barely N3500 can start a bulk SMS business as a middle man and N22, 500 as a owner of the business with a designed and installed website, that you will get from your reselling or providing company. No doubt, bulk SMS business is now for the low capital and technological entrepreneur. Imagine, you paid just N22, 500 you get well designed website, hosted and branded, that means you start your business in a matter of one day and start making money the same or next day, it’s simply time saving business.

But if your bulk SMS business website is up and running, how would you make sales is the question that should prick your mind, which mean, you need to get 1-5 customers daily to make it in the business. What comes to your mind is how you get these customers that would give you money: up next is what I will be exposing to you, so let’s go there.


HOW TO GET 1-5 CUSTOMERS DAILY:
Put in Your marketing strategy, for me, I took sometime to stumble and summarize the long procedures about this business into a simplify and easy to understand format. For your bulk SMS to make a surprising break in profit you need to strategize your working style of marketing, tactics that works for you, that uprightly means you should test all the marketing pin-point and then take note effectively which and which work out well. Now, here are some of the marketing strategies:

WORD OF MOUTH: Almost every business owner is a marketer and every marketer knows how to use their tongue in a sweetly and thrilling manner, they are always sweet tongued. Say the words with style, spread the word (tell every one about the business and that you are a business man or woman). Know when to say it so as to make it memorable to the person right under your mouth. Am done with this.

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENT; so far as Nigeria is concerned, news paper are most resourceful point, so placing a tiny call to action and hyper-super attractive headlines classified advert is a sure killing marketing strategy. Here is a sample on how your advert should look like
“ REVEALED!!!
Cheap bulk SMS 10K PER SMS
Instance delivery, instant feedback to sender with 50% discount.
www.your website.com.”
If you can come up with such an advert and place it on most popular Nigerian newspapars, certainly your sales will be skyrocket. Prepare a plan, it may be weekly, monthly or daily and this will guide you through, if you should advertize monthly, weekly or daily.


Blogging:I have come to notice that blogging is the greatest tools for brand and fans or community building yes, it work’s for almost every type of business is not left, blogging expose and show your real self and business actions to your loyal readers that’s why its called blog marketing. you should start a blog as a sister site to your bulk SMS website, teach and explain tutorial and, secret about SMS and bulk SMS in general with your marketing target – your bulk sms business website. I rest my case here concerning blogging (certainly most to come about this in my future post), up next still on marketing is.

Online advertising classified: Basically before now, it has never been so easy to attract huge traffic to a site with just a simple of five lines sentence classified advert, but now is so easy and you should take advantage of the technology, how?, you must have heard about facebook ads, Google adwords, addynamos, and adbrite etc. My advice is specifically go for facebook advertising because you can first use their insight tools to test the ads and take account of its likeness and click-through rate. Open ads account, set a budget (say about 30 dollars a day), design a compelling and call to action ads, and finally test the ads, if it works good, play around facebook with your ads; that enough for social media and online advertising.



Furthermore, why you should start this bulk sms business now if you have found the idea keening; reasons

Bulk sms Business is very profitable: 50% to 200% profit from a business is what I called profitable business and bulk sms business guaranteed this rate of profit percentage. This depends on how much you buy the sms that you will resell. Many people are getting into this business because of its profit potential and only very few business in Nigeria have this similar trait.

Bulk sms business is not expensive to start: capital is the biggest complain every young entrepreneur always have, but with the bulk sms business, there is no need for so much capital, your complains is 50% off, you start with as low as N10,000 and even N3500 (price of round table with few beer drinks and pepper soup). You don’t need to get a loan either from anyone or bank that makes you going without fingers.

Bulk sms business is dirty easy to set-up: in most case, you have to pay your money into the provider accounts and then go and take a sleep, while your provider design, installed, host and test-run the new business for before handling over it to you . No complex, technical thing or skills, yes technical can help you if you have them but is not required.

Bulk sms Business does not required an office and is not time consuming type of business. You can run the business from the comfort of your home, in cyber café or anywhere as part-time, fulltime or combine together. It is automated after setting it up (which in most case is done by your provider, all you have to do is to get customers. You can run it only on weekends, as a student and full time day-job-worker – the leverage is much.

Finally, the growing demand is high: think about this the more and more people use bulk sms service to broadcast, announce and invite friends to their wedding, church services, ceremonies and the almighty bulk sms advertising – big business and small business use it and are looking for it. Let your sms units be cheap, fast in delivery and automated, then the money is yours. Conclusively, I rest my case about bulk sms business in Nigeria, may be in the future if there is demand for more details I will re-visit it again.

One More thing – Over to you.
Start your own bulk sms business today and start pulling 50% to 200% profit daily. Remember, don’t eat your future – start something now!

Internet marketing can attract more people to your website, increase customers for your business, and enhance branding of your company and products. If you are just beginning your online marketing strategy the top 10 list below will get you started on a plan that has worked for many.

Written by olumide kuforiji
www.softchaseng.com

Start with a web promotion plan and an effective web design and development strategy.

Start with a web promotion plan and an effective web design and development strategy.

Get ranked at the top in major search engines, and practice good Search Optimization Techniques.

Learn to use Email Marketing Effectively.

Dominate your marketing niche with affiliate, reseller, and associate programs.

Request an analysis from an Internet marketing coach or Internet marketing consultant.

Build a responsive opt-in email list.

Publish articles or get listed in news stories.

Write and publish online press releases.

Facilitate and run contests and giveaways via your web site.

Blog and interact with your visitors.

By following the above tips you'll be on your way to creating a concrete internet marketing strategy that could boost your business substantially.