How to do marketing of web design business

by situ08
21 replies
I am a SEO Expert and web designer. But I am not getting web design clients. I want to know that how should I promote my web designing business to get more clients. I don't have budget for adwords or any other paid advertising. So I just want to utilize free advertising at this stage. Please guide.......
#business #design #marketing #web
  • Profile picture of the author webcosmo
    you could offer it to your SEO clients as an option.

    first thing to do would be build a decent portfolio with quality sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dinospider
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    Good places for web design is

    Freelancing sites
    Linked in (connect with business owners)
    Yellow pages
    White pages (contact business owners with no website)

    You need to get your name or company out there and just contact everyone.

    Can you get business owners phone numbers? cold calling business owners without sites gets a good conversion rate.

    Maybe you can hire cold callers for yourself? give them a commission on the sale.

    Forums like the one your in, warrior, digital point, business forums etc...
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  • Profile picture of the author Thomas Michal
    pick up the phone.
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  • Profile picture of the author LimitLessJZ
    You could get a Craigslist feed going monitoring for Web Design work and SEO. You might ave a problem posting to the States though if you're located in India. You could always buy some US proxies. Other things you can do is put a better signature on here to actually market your service. Right now you're not utilizing it good stuffing it with keywords for seo projects.

    If you're a quality designer you'll eventually get a lot of your work from referrals. Do you have a portfolio? I'm always on the lookout for designers who can produce quality work.
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    • Profile picture of the author situ08
      Originally Posted by LimitLessJZ View Post

      You could get a Craigslist feed going monitoring for Web Design work and SEO. You might ave a problem posting to the States though if you're located in India. You could always buy some US proxies. Other things you can do is put a better signature on here to actually market your service. Right now you're not utilizing it good stuffing it with keywords for seo projects.

      If you're a quality designer you'll eventually get a lot of your work from referrals. Do you have a portfolio? I'm always on the lookout for designers who can produce quality work.
      I have designed several websites and now I am designing my own website. I am offering seo and website designing at the same platform. You can see that website in my signatures bluenet technologies. This website is under construction but I am now looking forward to spread the word.
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  • Profile picture of the author situ08
    looking for more suggestions......
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  • Profile picture of the author Benjamin Ehinger
    My advice.......target offline clients and those with horribly designed websites directly. Many of the design clients I write for use direct email and mail to gain clients. They also advertise locally in specific areas. My fiance is actually a web designer and most of her business, now, comes from referrals and she only advertised for a very short amount of time before she had enough business for her.

    Benjamin
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  • Profile picture of the author situ08
    Thanks benjamin. I think having content writer in contact can get me clients.
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  • Profile picture of the author msalazar2882
    What we usually do right now is get involved or active on various social media websites. Try to promote it one by one by sending them emails. It may be tedious and boring but time will come that the returns will be very enticing.
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  • Profile picture of the author situ08
    From where I can collect emails of people interested in website design.
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  • Profile picture of the author blillard
    I would look tot the offline section of this forum for that kind of info as it more geared toward that kind of marketing discussions. But for starters I would look at your LOCAL market to get some easy business. Im sure you can find 1 company who use your services to get your feet wet. As for adwords why don't you try to grab a voucher to give you boost and set up a landing page to capture emails and follow up with them about your services.
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  • Profile picture of the author situ08
    Ya. I am thinking for adwords. But First of all my budget is less and I dont have much knowledge of PPC. I have adwords account but already wasted the adwords voucher. And If I use adwords again then is it necessary to create special landing page or i can use the homepage of my website.
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  • Profile picture of the author situ08
    Originally Posted by Craig Desorcy View Post

    If you're a designer, post your site's link in your sig file so
    others can see your work.

    If you want paying clients, you can give away some templates
    like this guy is doing here
    http://www.warriorforum.com/war-room...minisites.html

    Make sure a link to your service site is in each footer of the templates.

    All you need is to show off your work and people will hire you.

    Another thing you can do is go find someone doing exactly what you want
    then re-engineer their model.

    Craig
    I can not access the link you told. As I am not full warrior member
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  • Profile picture of the author lykeheve
    Nowadays, the internet marketing competition is gone very high so it is not easy to get work online but you have to try and try more and also take help of seo service provider who can help you in business promotions.
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  • Profile picture of the author situ08
    Does anyone know how to collect emails of people interested in website design.
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    • Profile picture of the author 0oo0
      Originally Posted by situ08 View Post

      Does anyone know how to collect emails of people interested in website design.
      Buy some ads that lead to a lead capture page.
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      • Profile picture of the author situ08
        Originally Posted by 0oo0 View Post

        Buy some ads that lead to a lead capture page.
        that will take time. Can you please suggest any source from where I can buy such leads
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  • Profile picture of the author TishaZaphirise
    You can create a video about your skill and upload it to youtube and top other video sites. If you are lazy you can outsource the upload by using fiverr service
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    • Profile picture of the author situ08
      Originally Posted by TishaZaphirise View Post

      You can create a video about your skill and upload it to youtube and top other video sites. If you are lazy you can outsource the upload by using fiverr service
      Not so lazy.......
      I will Definitely try YouTube.
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      • You can set up a blog or a website and showcase your work. Use a free blogging platform if you are on a tight budget. After setting up your portfolio website, advertise your skills on Elance, oDesk, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. You can also post free classified ads.
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