So you've just signed your first web development customer. You've collected a deposit. Now what?

For me, getting new clients has never been the problem. And once you follow the steps in our upcoming How to earn $4000 a month as a part time web developer, it won't be a problem for you either. No – the problem is getting through the work and in this post, you'll learn some tips on how to avoid falling into project hell.

There have been countless books written about how to sell and I can't begin to do justice to this topic here. However if you follow these principles, you'll leap ahead of the pack, gain confidence and make more money.

This is part 2 in our series on how to become a professional Joomla developer. Web developers need to focus on two main tasks; delivering the product (i.e. building the website) and making sales. The part most developers dread is sales but this doesn't need to be the case. What if you had a method that you could activate every time you needed work? Not cold calling (yuck!), not advertising but a simple method that you can use THIS WEEKEND.

Today we start a series of articles on how to become a professional web developer using the skills you already have. If you're already a web developer, don't despair as you're bound to pick-up some gems along the way. Plus we'll be alternating each week between this series and our template series until the end of the year.