Freelancer Sticker

This is a great (and virtually free) way to pick up business. I don't see a downside.

I've been running the sticker, "Hi, I build software. Come talk to me!" at a high end coffee shop in my town (Nashville) for 2 weeks and it's generated 3 good conversations. I…

This just looks like another generic meaningless sticker that people stick all over their laptops. If you really want people in coffeeshops to approach you try something more…

That's a lot to put on a sticker -- people aren't going to read that. Maybe something a bit snappier, e.g. "Freelance coder: available for gigs" or something. I would question,…

I'd be very curious about the viability of clients who approach you in a coffee shop. Seems like you'd get an awful lot of, "So hey, I have this idea that's like Facebook and…

Downside: you're meeting with a potential investor or client for your start-up and you've got to pull your laptop out. Other possible downsides include, people coming up to you…

I'd buy that for a dollar; but five? Not so much.

$5 for a sticker... Someone said profit margins?

get something we already have, apply a use case nobody should care, make a nice website with a video and promote it like a great idea, overprice it = success.

To the OP: Good idea but you need some contact info on your site and please remove the "whois privacy" from your whois record for the domain. In all but a limited amount of cases…

Right below this sticker you should probably list your hourly rate, otherwise you're making yourself a magnet for the wrong kinds of clients.

I would rather go for "We are hiring"

What has been your conversion rate so far using it? Since this is a marketing/sales practice, I'd love to know what the funnel looks like for this.

I'm curious of what the conversion funnel would be from people inquiring to becoming new clients. Someone should test this.

Do coffee shops really want this? We all use them from time to time to meet clients, or sneak in some work but I highly doubt most shops would want you building your business (by…

I thought it was a new band :) Wouldn't coffee shop owners use this to kick you out?

Agreed. Or what Github did with their t-shirts, where it said, "github.com/________" and you filled it in with a sharpie.

I've got a Github sticker on my laptop. It's sort of a "Hey, I'm a developer" flag, maybe it'll lead to some good conversation one day.

Yeah. For a long time I had a crude X in black duct tape on my laptop, and no other stickers. Almost everybody asks what it means because... it looks like it means something. It…