Frequently Asked Questions

Think of Regional Web Devloper as an exclusive co-operative of like-minded people desiring to do good work for a regional business in Australia.

We desire quality services and collaboration between members to deliver best practice workflows and ultimately outcomes and success.

No, job and project recruitment is covered under agency/business or senior freelance membership. If you do want to post a job or project you will need to upgrade your membership under the profile area.

If you're a regional business looking for a marketing person and you don't need all the benefits of RWD then under post a job from the homepage you can pay a one-off fee of $199 which will run the job for a period of 1 month.

We're different because we have a focus on quality and vetted members. We focus on true local outsourcing for our members and not just as a tagline.

Unlike most freelancing directories on the internet we don't take a cut of your project. We don't take projects that don't have a clear value for customers.

We realise that the main trend for a lot of agencies over the years has been to cut costs due to competition in the market and this often means sending jobs overseas.

In our experience this rarely works as expected and can be more work than getting the work done locally.

Often work that is done by "professionals" overseas can start with workers that have little experience with a second-level manager who knows more.

If we had the mentality to get everything done overseas we'd never do anything ourselves purely based on cost and nobody would have a job.

Australian people have pride in Australian made products but unfortunately, this only lasts while it's not affecting their bottom line. Regional people are even more passionate about keeping work local which is why we want to see locals get local projects and local jobs.

Sure you've got to start somewhere but everyone has to go through a vetting process which is a set of questions in the chosen skillset you represent on the network.

We're all for this, moving from the city to the country as a tree change many of you have had this opportunity. 

This is great and exactly what we want to see, bring as much work with you as you can and reinvest this into our regional communities.

What we're not happy with is work from the regional areas being captured by agencies and freelancers in the cities, This does not help with the local regional economies.

No, if you are from the city you can join the network. Not if you are overseas though.
It's important to note that most of the content and the training focuses on building regional business up through regional marketing. It may not be the right pick for you.

We need to set ourselves apart from two different groups. Firstly cheaper overseas service providers do not necessarily provide the same level locals can face to face. Secondly those cheaper "agencies" or "freelancers" with little skill and/or qualifications who don't follow the specialist approach but do things half-arsed for a quick buck.

Because of these two groups, it's often hard for regional professionals to feel like they can survive and instead feel like they need to compete. While customers don't understand they're comparing apples and oranges. 

Vetting our network members ensures we're all on the same page when it comes to process, quality and standards.

Too much money gets sucked out of regional  Australia for agencies in the cities. 

We want to keep things regional because there are enough regional professionals in all the areas necessary to do these projects as good if not better than some  agencies in the cities.

Expect to learn, contribute to others. 

Expect great things from yourself while being enabled by other specialists who have passion for that they do.

We encourage you to join the free Facebook group that is available to anyone to join.

If your not a member this is a good place to start. Here we plan to release free bite-size tutorials from some of our premium courses only available through the circle and this websites library of tutorials.