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		hizxy on May 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How do you brand yourself as a freelancer? I freelanced for 5 years. No personal brand. Old website. Referrals are everything.

juliend2 on May 23, 2020 [–]

As much as I like having a nice website and maintaining an up-to-date Linkedin profile, I have to admit that it's very true.

Word of mouth does 90-95% of the work. 5% might be related to me having a linkedin profile.

I've been freelancing during most of my dev career since I started in 2008.

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