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How to build a list of web design prospects?

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Hi - A good friend told me a wee story which I found quite inspirational - so I thought I would pass on the tale and see if you had some additional thoughts on how he could improve on it.

Specialising in building "business card" type websites for local businesses, he walked into his local Chinese take-away to order some food.

While waiting for his order, he spotted that there were business cards lying on a table from local businesses. A quick sort through these revealed that some businesses had websites and some didn't.

So, cherry-picking the cards, he selected only those businesses who didn't have a website, and used these as a calling list to offer his web-design services. Guess what - he's already got 2 positive responses and still has several more to contact.

Should he have picked up the other cards?

Mar
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  • Profile picture of the author Casper C
    It's a very common and effective way of gaining prospects. How about opening a Yellow Pages (or similar) and calling every business that doesn't have a website? It's the same type of thing, and it tends to work.

    It wouldn't have hurt your friend to have picked up the other cards, as a lot of websites are simply awful and could do with redesigning. When I was doing bespoke web design, a lot of my clients already had websites.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mar
      Originally Posted by Casper C View Post

      It wouldn't have hurt your friend to have picked up the other cards, as a lot of websites are simply awful and could do with redesigning. When I was doing bespoke web design, a lot of my clients already had websites.
      Thanks - that was one of the comments I gave him. Another was that I hoped he'd left his own business cards there as well.

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      • Profile picture of the author fiveonline
        hi,


        Its really an necessary & fantastic process of creating list of web design prospects. Its is very important to create all important prospects for web designing...
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