Bound to happen....first customer wanting an eCommerce site

Hi there - I have only been "actively" looking for clients for about 4 weeks total now. I have spent a lot of time though learning, reading, determining what services I wanted to offer, which ones that I could be good at, etc. Anyway, I happened to get lucky and knew a guy starting a new business, and I just asked him if I could do his site. If he liked it, he could then pay for it..if not, then he could go about his way. I figured I needed to get that first one under my belt.

Well, he loved his website, and my second client came by way of referral from him. My third client CALLED me because he was a competitor of one of the sites I put up, he had seen that his competitor had one and he wanted to "one up" them basically. My most recent client I got by just passing out business cards in our downtown....they checked out my site liked it, plus they liked one of the other sites I had on their in my portfolio.

Anyway, long way to say this........Bottom line, if you do good work, I am finding that your work sells itself. Offer a free site or two to get some clients under your belt, then leverage them for referrals, competitors, etc. Over deliver!!