I am a web developer from APAC region and have worked for clients in LATAM/US regions in past.
But I want to scale it now and have at least 3-4 clients on $3k/month retainer where I and some people I hire from my local community would work on building their MVPs, maintaining their codebase and scaling their product.
I would oversee the quality of work and work alongside the people I hire so that I can provide the best possible quality work to my clients.
The only struggle I have right now is to find those clients and close deals with them.
Not many people trust developers from 3rd tier countries, but fortunately I have past experience and portfolio of work to show them so that might help.
But where should I be looking for these potential clients and what should be the optimal way to approach them?
typically i see lots of cold emails and linkedin messages for this kind of service. so i think given the kind of clients you want (early stage startups) - networking in person with startup communities, providing relevant advice and being a source of reliable information might actually work better to getting clients.
yea thought about networking in person, but not a lot of events happen where i live. my best bet would be to join online communities i guess as i want to work with international clients anyway because pay is higher for the same amount of work