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Selling Front-End

Talkat Front End North 2018 · on Friday, 2018-01-19· [developer-experience, career-development]
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A WordPress agency explains why selling front-end is about value not tech jargon, shows a wall of real tools (React, Sass, Webpack, Babel) as noise, and presents we make websites as a tested language swap that wins clients. Ten concrete topics cover pricing models (day rate, retainers, fixed bids), hard lessons from losing five big pitches in a row, and operational rules: accessibility from day one, performance as default, and always be communicating with measurable examples and rewrites.

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  1. 0:00Intro
  2. 1:08Why we are here
  3. 3:02Intermission
  4. 5:28Find the true value in what you do
  5. 6:40Use nontechnical words
  6. 8:20Who are you selling to
  7. 10:47Improve your language
  8. 13:02Offer value without buzzwords
  9. 14:06Examples of buzzwords
  10. 14:41HTML5 CSS3
  11. 16:35Modern Web Standards
  12. 18:51Business Cards
  13. 23:17Be a Trusted Partner
  14. 24:10The Guy in the Chair
  15. 26:02Always Be Closing
  16. 27:07Sales Call
  17. 28:01Pricing
  18. 30:49Mindset
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