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Our freelancer of the week has known right from the beginning, that one day she would like to be her own boss and possibly start her own company. With that in mind, Zaneta Baran started to work on some smaller projects while studying Software Engineering and after that kept going while working as a regular employee to gain experience. Now Zaneta fulfilled her dream and is freelancing full time. She does Magento development and is very happy with it… – PowerPoint PPT presentation
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Title: Zaneta Baran - Magento Developer
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- Zaneta Baran
- Magento Developer
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Zaneta Baran
- Our freelancer of the week has known right from
the beginning, that one day she would like to be
her own boss and possibly start her own company.
With that in mind, Zaneta Baran started to work
on some smaller projects while studying Software
Engineering and after that kept going while
working as a regular employee to gain experience.
Now Zaneta fulfilled her dream and is freelancing
full time. She does Magento development and is
very happy with it
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Zaneta Baran
- 1) First off, can you tell us a bit about
yourself? - Hi, my name is Zaneta Baran. Im a 23 year old
developer, based in Cracow, Poland. Im a
certified Magento frontend developer. Mainly Im
successfully working on Magento (frontend as well
as backend) creating shops from scratch,
handling ongoing maintenance, creating dedicated
extensions. Also I know Wordpress, Woocommerce
and Prestashop very well. Im making graphic
design (website designs, logo etc) too.
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Zaneta Baran
- 1) First off, can you tell us a bit about
yourself? (contd) - I have been a freelancer for six years now and
while that time I was also working for several IT
companies, where I've gained experience while
working on various Magento projects for Polish
and international clients (mainly from Germany,
US, UK and Australia). Now Im focusing on my own
career. Im working as a freelancer also Im
running my sole proprietorship, which is named
NoRestrictions. It allows me to work with clients
on B2B rules. For both at work and in private
life I love challenges and the thrill of
adrenaline. I ride a motorcycle, jump with a
parachute and like boxing.
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Zaneta Baran
- 2) If you would search for your profile on
Google, which are the keywords you would type in
the search bar? - Depends, which services I would be looking for
- Magento Developer Freelancer
- Experienced Magento Developer
- Wordpress freelancer
- Magento Frontend Developer
- Magento Backend Developer
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Zaneta Baran
- 3) What was your inspiration and when did you
actually decide to become a freelancer? - During my studies I knew that I wanted to work as
a freelancer or start my own company. I like
being my own boss. I've always admired the young
people who threw themselves into deep water and
at young age founded a company. Then I thought to
myself that in IT I can be a freelancer! Its
even better! At studies I caught some small
projects. Then I worked for several companies to
gain experience and references, which were useful
to me in search of customers as a freelancer.
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Zaneta Baran
- 3) What was your inspiration and when did you
actually decide to become a freelancer? (contd) - In addition, the work in a company allowed me to
acquire the ability of working with clients.
Right now I work as a freelancer full time, eight
hours a day, from Monday to Friday.
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Zaneta Baran
- 4) What kind of services have your clients asked
you to provide? - Mainly I was creating websites and webstores. I
made specifications with clients or their support
documentation. I made templates, PSD to
HTML/Wordpress/Magento. Also I maintain some of
my projects Ive created. I made amendments to
existing websites/webstores, I also developed
them. I was running big, time consuming projects
as well as some small two hour jobs. Also I made
some Magento and Wordpress extensions. Im also a
graphic designer.
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Zaneta Baran
- 5) Do you use other freelancers or companies to
provide skills that you dont possess? - I have my own trusted team, which consists of two
developers behind me. We know each other from
studies. Each of us has its own, separate
projects, but sometimes we help each other out
when needed. It also happens that the customer
needs a few developers in a single project. Then
I arrange to meet with my team on clients request
and we work together.
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Zaneta Baran
- 6) Now tell us, how do you find new clients that
are interested in your services? - Mainly I use freelancing websites. When I have
time Im going to conferences or some trainings
in my home city to meet new people potential
clients. Also, if I have the time and money I
travel to other countries, make new friends, come
to BNI meetings or others and try to sell my
services. But the best ways to raise the number
of clients are recommendations from others and
their feedback- then clients come by themselves.
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Zaneta Baran
- 7) What about freelancermap.com? Can you tell us
a little bit about your experience with our
IT-network? - I set up an account on this portal recently. I
found mention about the portal on Twitter with a
. The site is well designed and clear. I'm
just beginning my adventure with
freelancermap.com, but I can see huge potential.
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Zaneta Baran
- 8) How do you set yourself apart from your
competitors? What makes you special? - First of all, working with Magento which is not
very popular among freelancers helps. Work on
Magento requires extensive experience and
knowledge, especially best practice and moreover
definitely an experience and positive feedback
from customers. I always work at 100, or even
120, so that the customer is satisfied and he
wants me to come back and share the experience in
other projects as well.
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Zaneta Baran
- 9) What are the top three books, blogs or
magazines you read to stay up to date in the
IT-market? - Wesbites
- https//magento.com/blog/magento-news
- http//www.itnews.com
- Magazines
- PCWorld, ComputerWorld
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Zaneta Baran
- 10) Freestyle! Is there anything you would like
to tell our readers? - My trick is to look for unusual ways to find
projects. A great tool is for example Twitter.
This way I found freelancermap.com. So try to
think in not hackneyed ways.
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