Cheers from Poland! You look now like Jim from the Office :)

Great tips, Chris! From my experience, I've found that knowing you'll succeed before you get there is a big part of getting there. If you don't believe, you won't achieve. 🙏

Point #3 cannot be stressed enough. You can be the best at your craft and highly confident, but if you don't communicate with your customer clearly, especially in a timely manner (don't make them come looking for you), you are opening yourself up to a world of trouble. Clients don't know what you're doing unless you are telling them and showing them through candid, succinct, and timely communication.

Thanks for your sharing, Chris :) 1. skills: bạn có kỹ năng gì, bạn cung cấp giá trị gì cho khách hàng, để làm công việc đó sẽ cần có những kỹ năng nào. 2. confidence: tự tin về bản thân và thuyết phục khách hàng làm việc với mình. 3. communication: giao tiếp hiệu quả: hiểu và đáp ứng đúng những gì khách hàng cần. Bonus: chuyên sâu vào 1 ngách sẽ tốt hơn cho sự nghiệp lâu dài, tăng khả năng cạnh tranh của bản thân trên thị trường.

Really loved the part about growing confidence. This really resonated!

Chris, your hairstyle looked better earlier...:( You're great! Great to see you back mate! Really missed your vids.

Here's an idea for your next video mate 😉 Where do you find your clients when in Thailand? Do you retain regular clients? And of course the cliche, how do you start finding clients, with no experience. Keep up the awesome content!

1. skills 2. confidence 3. well communication skills

Hi Chris, I saw you in Chiang Mai at Coco Kala but I did not recognize you at that time. I was like "why does his face look so familiar to me?". And now I know why! Haha. Very happy to see you back on KZfaq. You inspired me to quit my job and move to Chiang Mai.

Truth! Love your videos!

Exactly having the best skill is not enough, communication matters :)

Could you make more practical Shopify theme development tutorials on your KZfaq channel, please? I still feel I'm stuck after watching your skillshare videos.

Thanks for your videos. The best ones on nomadic life/freelancing. Keep up the good work. Cheers from Germany

Great Content! Really enjoyed this video, Thank you for this info Chris!

Great video, thanks Chris. For my part, and it’s a learning journey, is to focus on your skills, be a master of what you are good at, develop your weaknesses but don’t be a jack of all trades! I am a teacher, not a coder, I would like to train as a coder but realise it would take me time to do so, and my teaching students would suffer. So I have realised that I can be a teacher, anywhere pretty much, so that’s my focus .

You're looking ripped AF lol

Great video! Simple facts, well explained with examples.. very motivating :) Well done!!

Good advice. Another requirement for someone not in tech is market specific knowledge. My knowledge of market value rates for both Ireland and the UK makes my service more beneficial than getting a foreign surveyor that doesn’t know what labor or material costs in those territories are.

I'm in one of those offshore countries. The I word. My only advantage against others from my country is that my communication and English skills are great. I agree with you Chris. Also can you speak about acquiring digital assets and businesses?

My goal is to be a digital nomad. With Covid, I am working mobile, but my challenge is working with a locked in time zone. So it brings quite a challenge to working overseas :(

I am an IT team lead , well the title just for show, I am from India and started out as a tech support rep 14 years ago. around 2013 I learnt Netwrok technologies and did a CCNA after which i went into Network Admin adn support. over the last 3 years I have learned a bit of Linux, cloud , virtualization , a little bit of Python coding and now want to learn Dev ops and learn the whole CI/CD model , I also want to specialize in Pythona and data science later. I got laid off my office recently and went to phanghan for a week in march . Now I want to be a digital nomad but am confused how to go about it. I guess I have to learn how to use tools like Jira , and others to bill clients , be part of projects, effectively communicate with teams around the world, I have done such projects in the past working for the company Accenture and almost all the work I did in the past 5 years has had people collaborating on bridge calls. I guess I am ready but am just so confused how to go about it, I wish I could find someone like you to hire me as an understudy and pay me just a little , say 20-30 % while I work and home and learn the tricks of the trade a little and then when I build a portfolio and start to earn enough can venture out to the palces I want to work at , ie Koh phanghan. do yoga, relax on the beach , nourish my soul as well. if thats not an option I guess it should be , so a free lancer wold have a watson , I mean an aprentice or an intern , get a lot of manual work done by him which would be symbiotic coz the tranee would learn and the trainer would have more quality time to do more cognetive work . Let me know if this is a thing and you can recommend anyone , I think if I can get even the same amount of what I use to earn here in India while I am an aprentice then it will still be very less for the freelancer . if not how to go about things ? I am following your vidoes. I guess I need to first figure out what to specialize in and what to focus on . I think I am going round and round in circles. I guess being laid off has made me a bit anxioius but I know I can do this as well . I wish anyone who has read so far a great day :)

Great advice Chris, and wow jump in subscribers a lot waiting the return!

Yoooo Chris you put on some major size I noticed it right away, looking strong!

Nice, you are back at it! I just came across your Skillshare courses and I'm going to work through them, I'd like to do Shopify theme work as well. Thanks mate, stay safe!

Great informative video as usual Chris, awesome tips!

Your content is always very valuable!

You said you don’t want to name those offshore countries. You can it’s OK, we know it’s true. Also if someone is freelancer from an expensive country to live in like Australia. He can’t offer rates as offered by someone living in India(my country and I am proud of), bangladesh, Srilanka, Indonesia, Malaysia etc.

Excellent tips... Bottomline one needs to really work hard to be a gd freelancer.. Nothing comes free

Greetings from the USA! Dope content

Great tips! Thanks, Chris :)

I would like to do free Lance work as well, but honestly it seems difficult. Also overall confusing. Would love to travel though

Thanks for this tips. As of right now I am on the beginning. Building my skills. The confidence is what I am going to build more. I hope you have a video for people who wasn’t born as English native as nomad. How you will approach client and hired you.

You've made some great resources on here bud!

Thanks for the tips I hope I will be able to monetize my skills in a year.

REALLY want to do the networking part that freelancers do. Can you focus a bit on that mate? I know you already do (nomad cruise etc), like making friends and so on.

Good fundamental advice.

Practice and know the basics is a good thing to start! Could you please make a video about how you learned to code from the start?

Can you please make video about how much you’re making a year as a freelancer? Or, in general, how much someone doing Shopify freelancing could earn a year?

Very good points indeed

Chris I plan on going on the digital nomad journey in May this year. Do you recommend Chiang Mai or Bali for a beginner such as me?

Read "The Freelance Manifesto". It's about animators but taught me so much when it comes to communicating with clients. Also "How to win friends and influence people" is fantastic for communication in general.

What was the "offshoring company" which he mentioned?

Very inspiring video Chris! What do you think about React? Have you ever tried it before? I'm specializing in it and using GatsbyJS and I'm really enjoying, btw the websites hit 100 in all google audit requisites and it's incredibly fast. Keep posting new videos 👊 Cheers from Brazil 🇧🇷

Great tips Chris! Do you have a plan for a future video to handle how you make an attractive portfolio to convince clients as a freelancer?

I am also a Shopify partner developer since last 7+ years.. ✌️

Hey Chris I am in Bangkok if you would like to do a collaboration that would be cool, Cheers

Thank you for this video Chris! Do you know if there is a market for UX Design? I wonder if it is as in demand as your programming skills...

Hey Chris have you heard of X-Team? Been hearing about them more often recently. A fully remote company that have hacker houses you can work out of/live in rent free as an employee. Wanted to know whats your take on something like that?

In my opinion it's: 1. Positioning 2. Sales 3. Skills

Where´s Chris ? Where are you ? It's been so long I haven't heard from you.

How about sharing how much you earn and how you get your jobs? Private I know but super interesting.

Confidence as a developer has been a big issue for me. I came into programming via a bootcamp, and whenever I was struggling with something at work, I felt like a useless fraud. How I (mostly) got over that is a long story, but the biggest thing has just been time/experience. The better I get, and the more challenges I overcome, the more confident I become that I can tackle whatever's thrown at me. So advice to all the newbies: stay strong, stick with it, it really does get easier.

Have you started to complete yet your passive income target by applying your skills so as to not have to rely on clients or are you simply enjoying it so much that working for others is more of a paid hobby?

Can you please make a video on how to find services for companies that would allow someone to start working online?

Hi Chris, I really liked your video content. But I have a question please How do you get your first work as a freelancer with in two days and where exactly? could you please do other video about that.

Hey Chris , would you say places like Upwork are a race to the bottom in terms of getting more as a freelancer?

First...er no, second!

Why did you choose this particular specialization?

Great video chris, im motion designer working on 3d tv promos and i have 9 years experience on tv, i like to know from your experience how to find client, is it any website i can connect with clients or i have to reach to them by email? Thanks again for your content 👍🏻

Thanks. Would be interesting to know how from you how much references still play a role nowadays.

Where did you found good Shopify tutorials? Thank you!

hey man, do you think there is a lot of opportunities for test automation engineers?

Great content mate, I will share this on my remote work groups. Sent you an email about a podcast, check it when you have some time. Cheers.

As soon as you work with Shopify why didn't you mention PHP? :)

How do you find your clients?

Javascript + Framework Node or PHP mysql And you're good to go.

How do you work and get away with visa restrictions

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