I keep working in remote for hand-picked clients. I raised my rates (I started really low, 8$/hour, coming from non-technical background at all). My current rate is 25$/h, and I have started to take some projects that imply some development (ruby on rails, html/css).
AMAnything if you feel like! Willing to help or solve some doubts.
How much time and effort did it take you to reach $25/h from $8/h? From what I see, it is very competetive and there will be always some guy who is willing to work at less than price you mention (and sometimes, if not most of times, he would have more experience/ratings than you) how do you handle that? I mean how would you make someone chose you over a experienced guy?
You said you started to take development projects, then what kind of projects you were working on earlier?
You can figure that out if you take a look to my oDesk profile, link is included in the post and you can see what kind of works/and when I raised my $/h.
AMAnything if you feel like! Willing to help or solve some doubts.