Freelance Camp 2009 in Santa Cruz was as great as I was hoping it would be. There were so many interesting topics that I wanted to be at several sessions at once — all day long. This year there were 300 campers. The downtown venue was still walkable from my house.
Now, on the Monday morning-after, my follow-up TO DO list (project managers love TO DO lists) includes:
- Follow up with some of the folks I met at Freelance Camp.
- Review the Wiki notes:
http://barcamp.org/FreelanceCampSessions3 - Keep following the #freelancecamp tweets:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23freelancecamp - Elance
Elance is the leading site for online work where businesses connect with independent professionals to get work done.
http://www.elance.com - Freelanceswitch:
FreelanceSwitch is a community of expert freelancers from around the world.
http://freelanceswitch.com
http://freelanceswitch.com/the-business-of-freelancing/online-bookkeeping-for-freelancers-that-wont-cost-an-arm-and-a-leg/ - Redmine:
Redmine is an open sources flexible project management web application.
http://redmine.org
http://demo.redmine.org/ - ProjectThingy
You have projects? We have ProjectThingy!
http://www.projectthingy.com - Hubspot
Hubspot is an inbound marketing system to help your small or medium sized business get found on the Internet by the right prospects and convert more of them into leads…
www.hubspot.com - The Contract Employee’s Handbook
Helping Contract Employees Manage their Careers
http://www.cehandbook.com/ - Professional Association for Contract Employees
- GREAT Benefits for Independent Professionals
- HUGE Savings for Clients That Hire Contractors
http://www.pacepros.com/ - Project Wonderful
Project Wonderful makes advertising awesome.
http://ProjectWonderful.com - Errors and Omissions Insurance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errors_and_omissions_insurance
And — this is now 13+ — here is a list of Shopping Cart resources (taken directly from the session notes):
SHOPPING CARTS – all of these manage your products, connect with direct API to payment gateway(s). Some are more seamless, looks like it’s on your site, and some of them send you over to another site to process.
- Paypal: At simple end (Paypal Standard), “Buy it now button” that you can cut and paste into your site. At advanced end (Paypal Pro), you can do a seamless integration into your site. Don’t need to set up an account to make a payment.
- Google Checkout: Similar to Paypal. You do need to set up an account in order to make a payment.
- ZenCart: Open Source – Offshoot of OS Commerce. Natively it requires customer to set up an account in order to make a purchase.
- Magento: Open Source – New hot shopping cart, developed by Variand. Very pretty. By far the most feature –rich, but it’s “a beast.” An ordeal to install and build, and the overhead based on the code is HUGE, probably slows to a crawl.
- Virtue mart: Open Source – Joomla CMS plug-in
- Ubercart: Open Source – Drupal CMS plug-in
- WP-Ecommerce: Open Source – WordPress plug-in. Use lots of different themes. Can add items to your cart and it will show the status of your cart without reloading page. 1-page checkout option. Handles selling services online with ease. Uses multiple gateways. Just plug in a long string of numbers they give you.
- Shopsite: Client has to re-enter their information every time. Pay monthly to use. Starts at around $16/month through Cruzio. Copy/past their Add to Cart code to your web page.
- Foxy Cart: Hosted solution, costs money – $10-15/month. Very slick
- Volusion: Hosted solution, costs money – $19/month for cheapest option. Very slick, they will also host your website, and integrate the cart.
- Shopify: Hosted Solution
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Sara Isenberg
Sara Isenberg
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