Getting clients as a webdesigner

13 years ago

Make sales threads on all the major marketing forums. Also look into making themes or templates and sell them on themeforest etc.

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matt5409

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Gumballer

Hi,

I am struggeling with getting clients as a newly started webdesigner.

Can anyone give me good tips on how to reach the market?

goto networking events and build relationships. it's your only hope in this game unless you want to work for 2p an hours on peopleperhour.com

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Victor Edson

13 years ago

Do you have a warrior for hire thread? I generate a lot of business there for my backlink service, and there are lots of web designers there as well.

If you don't have one yet, get a warrior for hire thread. They aren't free, but you'll get some business there. Since you're new to the forum provide a few discounted reviews, and provide some examples.

Another great way is to write a free report on offline marketing, and give it away for free or sell it cheap. In the report mention your web design service sets up sites, and provide a link to your thread where people can see all of your previous clients testimonials.

The most important things you can should focus on are....

Building great looking sites
COMMUNICATION with clients
Competitive Pricing for the quality you provide

Don't forget step 1, get a warrior for hire thread.

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Gumballer

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Victor Edson

Do you have a warrior for hire thread? I generate a lot of business there for my backlink service, and there are lots of web designers there as well.

If you don't have one yet, get a warrior for hire thread. They aren't free, but you'll get some business there. Since you're new to the forum provide a few discounted reviews, and provide some examples.

Another great way is to write a free report on offline marketing, and give it away for free or sell it cheap. In the report mention your web design service sets up sites, and provide a link to your thread where people can see all of your previous clients testimonials.

The most important things you can should focus on are....

Building great looking sites
COMMUNICATION with clients
Competitive Pricing for the quality you provide

Don't forget step 1, get a warrior for hire thread.

Hi,

THanks for good advice.

Is there a way to reach LOCAL businesses in my Area?

I am a great salesperson, and i have a very like-able personality, very good social skills. But how do I use them in this market?

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Victor Edson

13 years ago

Yea, that's the offline market I mentioned.

There's an entire section here on the warrior forum dedicated to marketing offline, I suggest you start looking there to get some ideas.

There are tons of different approaches to marketing offline, but if you're a good talker just walk in some shops and start talking.

But if you really want to provide great services for your clients, you should include SEO to get them ranked for their keywords too so they can not only have a website, but have another way to make money with their business.

Set them up on a monthly payment plan, and send me the orders. I work with other warriors who do this and I get the sites to rank for them. This is another way that you can provide a better service, keep in contact with your customers for future upsells, and make more money in the process.

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sbucciarel

Banned 13 years ago

If you're serious about launching a web design business, you should have a web portfolio to show to people and sign up with the freelance boards and bid on projects. It's highly competitive on sites like Elance so be prepared to bid low.

You can also create listings here in Classifieds or Warriors for Hire and other places on the Net that allow listings.

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saeed13

13 years ago

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

If you're serious about launching a web design business, you should have a web portfolio to show to people and sign up with the freelance boards and bid on projects. It's highly competitive on sites like Elance so be prepared to bid low.

You can also create listings here in Classifieds or Warriors for Hire and other places on the Net that allow listings.

thank, that was a great advice

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Gumballer

13 years ago

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

If you're serious about launching a web design business, you should have a web portfolio to show to people and sign up with the freelance boards and bid on projects. It's highly competitive on sites like Elance so be prepared to bid low.

You can also create listings here in Classifieds or Warriors for Hire and other places on the Net that allow listings.

Hi,

Yes I used to do that, but I am not willing to bid against 100 indians who work for $5 an hour.

I have a very respectful portfolio, and I do very good work (2011 standards).

A regular hourly price in my country is at least $60+
On Elance / Freelancer, people are working for waaay less than $10.

Im not interested in going into the Online International Market, I am looking for good ways to get into my local market.

Other agencies must do the same I assume.

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sbucciarel

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Gumballer

Hi,

Yes I used to do that, but I am not willing to bid against 100 indians who work for $5 an hour.

I have a very respectful portfolio, and I do very good work (2011 standards).

A regular hourly price in my country is at least $60+
On Elance / Freelancer, people are working for waaay less than $10.

Im not interested in going into the Online International Market, I am looking for good ways to get into my local market.

Other agencies must do the same I assume.

Yep. That's why I haven't worked as a freelance designer for years. Then you're looking for offline marketing for your local area. Can't help you there. Don't do any offline marketing.

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Devid Farah 13 years ago

A great way to get local clients is to target those companies who advertise in your local paper/newsletter that are paying for an advert but only have a yahoo,hotmail,gmail etc email in their ad.

This means they are unlikely to have their own website, as if they did they would be showing an email address with their own domain name.

Using this tip should get you plenty of leads to work on.
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Steve MacLellan

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Gumballer

Hi,

I have a very respectful portfolio, and I do very good work (2011 standards).

Im not interested in going into the Online International Market, I am looking for good ways to get into my local market.

What about calling your clients and asking them if they would mind referring people to you?

It works. 90% of my business comes from referrals.

It's good marketing too. You can stand on a soap box and scream how good you are and no one will listen to you. But if one of your clients tells one of his associates that you do great work and he/she should call you. Then that person comes to you already pre-sold.

Regards,
Steve MacLellan

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Always-A-Warrior

13 years ago

Show off your talent and give it away for testimonials then set up a portfolio. Make friends with some web designers as they may get more jobs than they can handle and pass it on to you. I'm working on a Best Web Designr directory as well.

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CyberSorcerer

13 years ago

I do webdesign too. When you're just starting out it's hard to get jobs especially on the freelance sites when you don't have feedback, etc.

This is what I did. Sign up for an account at ActiveDen and design some WP Themes or just a regular site in PDF, and start putting up things to sell. It's also a good source to use as your portfolio without having a website of your own.

Just a good way to get your name out there and show your portfolio without investing in hosting, domain, etc.

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dvduval

13 years ago

My advice to you would be to get better at coding your designs into a CMS. It is not uncommon for me to have a shortage of people that can code designs for phpLD (doing pretty good right now), and I know I am not alone. There are lots of scripts like Joomla, Wordpress, vBulletin, phpBB, etc where people need a coded design. Really, there are more designs applied to a CMS than are not in today's internet.

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massivemarketing

13 years ago

Basically what you need are leads. There are various methods to get leads and most of them available are non exclusive leads which means you will compete with sales reps. The benefit is that the leads are cheap. If you have a higher budget there are companies which provide exclusive design leads but they are expensive.

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indiatext

13 years ago

First of all create a web-page about the services that you have to offer and demonstrate your skills aptly in that particular web-page...

Then you just need to promote that web-page as a sample of your work which also contain all that you have to offer...

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massivemarketing

13 years ago

I'm with steve as well. Referrals are the core of my business and if you do it well, it becomes viral. Make sure they have tools to be able to referr you like business cards, brochures etc.

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