I see people earning $10k to add small features that take no more than a week worth of work and here I am making full fledged custom ecommerce sites for $1k.

Money is apparently based on who the client is not what ur doing for them..

So how do i get those clients?

tipp: research value based pricing

Easy answer. You need to find them in Silicon Valley type environments.

i make sure i have a good friendly relationship with my customer in which I seem as the "likeable engineer that helps us" rather than the "shitty asshole that charges us X amount for X thing" while at the same time I thread in dangerous waters.

What do I mean? once a certain level of likeability and familiarity with the customer has been established, they will eventually call for the small emergency during the weekend "oh that is fine, I can take care of it in a few moments, don't worry"

"how much will this cost?"

"nah don't worry about it, this is minimal, x and y features down the road would be a different topic, but let us focus on this"

"no no its the weekend please, at least the minimum"

"nah its fine"

"look, how about we transfer at least $700?"

"well I can't say that is bad! okok as you wish, let me just finish this and call you afterwards"

boom. Then for more expensive features they will not shy away from paying, because they know you are not out to overcharge them

@AleCx04 Note that I am aware this is not the case everywhere....but I can CLICK with ANYONE regardless of the type of person and make myself dependao and likeable. It is a matter of social engineering really.

Also, building websites is not nearly as marketable now a days as an actual web application, your project pool dictates the amount of money you can charge.

Building a small portion to be added through a cms is not going to get you loads of cash.

Building the endpoint in an api for a service that populates data on a mobile/web app, well now we are talking more money.

Living in the U.S also greatly helps for this kind of stuff.

Also, yeah, I know that 700 might not seem like much for one thing.... that would take me about 20 mins thought. Add more clients to that, add more requests and boom

The most important thing is what they need