>>actually - not sure exactly what you are asking here?
>
>something like:
>1) Work for someone else
>2) Make several contacts (clients)
>3) Make more contacts
>4) Decide to work alone
>5) Make a survey (market study)
>6) Talk to the contacts you made and give them your card so they can contact you
>7) Wait to be called
>8) Make the first work cheap
>9) Make the subsequent works more expensive
>
>???? Am i right??

well - in my case it is more like this ...

1 - subcontract through well-known VFP/MS shop who you used to work for - starting out with good rate and initial fairly long contract - and likelihood of ongoing work

2- work butt off to do a good job

3 - work butt off to learn new skills that are needed by this place and market in general - in my case namely - ASP/VB/VB Script and Data Warehousing

4 - make sure to get name out to everyone you can and pursue if you have even slightest inkling of gap in work schedule

5 - ASAP - save up a couple month's pay - just in case

HTH