This course details different developer-centric marketing and skill ideas that can help in different fields of software development. It focuses on two important parts, each concentrating on a different aspect of your life as a software developer, pushing you out of the traditional developer status and unlocking potential that transcends that of ordinary developers.

Here, I’ve put together this playbook on the best strategies, with the exact steps on how to grow a successful developer brand and gain some advantage to attain some financial freedom.

Build a Successful Developer Brand

## Importance
No matter how widely traveled or well connected, it is only possible to meet a limited range of people face to face. We need a better way to market ourselves and network with a larger audience. A blog is a cheap and easy way to do just that.

I myself started blogging sometime in 2018 about Android development. Just a few years later, over 70,000 people have read and engaged with one of my articles about pinch and zoom in Android. This is just a little example of the results we can achieve through intentional blogging.

# Importance
No matter how widely traveled or well connected, it is only possible to meet a limited range of people face to face. We need a better way to market ourselves and network with a larger audience. A blog is a cheap and easy way to do just that.

I myself started blogging sometime in 2018 about Android development. Just a few years later, over 70,000 people have read and engaged with one of my articles about pinch and zoom in Android. This is just a little example of the results we can achieve through intentional blogging.

Learn about blogging and its importance in self-marketing.

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Blogging – An Old Standby

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