How to start an online web-design business ?

10 years ago

Here are two simple steps to start.

1) Post something in your signature that you are a web designer. (Do not Violate and forum rules)

2) Take out a classified ad in the Warrior forum Classified section under warriors for hire.

Other ideas, Yes- build a website promoting your service. Pay attention to Jason's post http://www.warriorforum.com/offline-...1-2-years.html, and learn to Cold Call. Other things to do is join O'desk and other similar service sites. Place local ads in your market.

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umc

10 years ago

Do some searching on here and you'll find about eleventy billion threads on this subject with fantastic strategies to pick from.

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mikesalaru

10 years ago

#1 make a website
#2 Write what you can
#3 Advertise in blogs,forums and so on

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Jason Kanigan

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Clautusoar

Hello, guys im just looking for some help. I am web-designer, wordpress-developer, and somewhat of a graphic designer, should i cold-call small business to start off, or should i just make a website based on my business hoping someone would contact me.

how do i go about starting an online web-design business ?

A website by itself is pretty much useless, and you should know that.

Solve a problem for specific people. Your product/service is just a means to solving that problem.

http://www.warriorforum.com/offline-...t-website.html

This guy started with cold calling years ago, and I helped him then. He's not the only one who developed a successful web design agency that way.

Whatever you do, you're sooner or later going to have to talk to people.

http://www.warriorforum.com/offline-...t-selling.html

And if you're a War Room member, this will get you started off right:

http://www.warriorforum.com/war-room...r-clients.html

Most people begin with a scarcity mindset, pricing that is far too low and attracts poor clients, and never make it past a couple months. But you do not have to begin that way.

Pay attention to what Rick Duris says in this thread:

http://www.warriorforum.com/offline-...k-my-arse.html

We all suck at the beginning. Expecting otherwise is foolishness, but we do go in thinking we'll be better and it'll be easier than reality bears out.

Here's the key blunt question about starting your own business (my top client, who makes more money than I do, put it to me this way over a year ago):

"Do you have what it takes to get kicked in the head for a full YEAR, so you can learn what you need to learn to succeed?"

Because that's what it's gonna take.

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Michael Nguyen

10 years ago

Start from your friends and family first, you'll be surprised what will happen if you do good job = more work.

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Peter Lessard

10 years ago

First step is for you to very clearly define what kind of web design business.

Are you just going to take any work you can get? Let life just happen?

Or will you form a clear vision in your head of the type of clients you want, how many clients is ideal, how much money you want in your life and then reverse engineer what you want into the type of business you should have to achieve these goals?

The world does NOT need another "web-design business"
BUT
somewhere a small niche with money to spend and money to be made with your help
IF
you create a business and offer that best suits them
will support you in the life you want to lead.

It may sound very pie in the sky to many when we just trying to get the bills paid
but trust me if you can even apply this principle somewhat to your long range planning
you will avoid years of boom and bust and years of eventually owning a business you never wanted in the first place!

Good luck, we can help more if you can become more clear in what you really want to do.

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makpeeter

10 years ago

How to improve sales by organizing various services into packages s as bronze. Giving your clients choices is a good way to improve sales.Design your own website Keep your web design clients satisfied Grow your profits

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justclick

10 years ago

You get the many websites online from the internet to start online web design business.

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Jason Kanigan 10 years ago

Originally Posted by justclick

You get the many websites online from the internet to start online web design business.

There, ladies and gentlemen. That is how it is done.
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Nino

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Clautusoar

Hello, guys im just looking for some help. I am web-designer, wordpress-developer, and somewhat of a graphic designer, should i cold-call small business to start off, or should i just make a website based on my business hoping someone would contact me.

how do i go about starting an online web-design business ?

There was a lot of good advice before so i'll just add my 2 cents: Hoping is never something you should focus on in a business.

To answer your question, don't make the site unless you don't have anything else in your portfolio. If you have previous work to show, try to get a customer from your old clients, and if that doesn't work, use some unconventional methods, as cold calling will probably just get to you before you find a client.

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SuperKC

10 years ago

The problem is that technically your not exactly a web designer.. you know how to use wordpress and your graphic skills (from what you say) are eh.. I don't know if thats really a web designer. I don't even call myself a web designer but I've programmed platforms similar to wordpress, I can build a site from the ground up, program in perl, and do all of my own advanced photoshop work.. I could rebuild virtually anything out there. Even for me -- its hard to just go out and find clients without warm introductions. My advice -- don't find clients -- its overrated. Just build for yourself and make a living out of your own creations like I have done.

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KloudStrife

10 years ago

Originally Posted by SuperKC

The problem is that technically your not exactly a web designer.. you know how to use wordpress and your graphic skills (from what you say) are eh.. I don't know if thats really a web designer. I don't even call myself a web designer but I've programmed platforms similar to wordpress, I can build a site from the ground up, program in perl, and do all of my own advanced photoshop work.. I could rebuild virtually anything out there. Even for me -- its hard to just go out and find clients without warm introductions. My advice -- don't find clients -- its overrated. Just build for yourself and make a living out of your own creations like I have done.

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The benefits of building something for yourself are much more rewarding because you can then focus on your own skill set and not be pressured by the clients every demand.

One thing that drives me nuts is the fact that clients will never be truly satisfied with your work, so your basically risking wasting your time against someone whom may be 50/50 with you at the end of the project

Its better to just work for yourself and build some awesome websites that will give you more profit then a cheap client ever will

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Anderson2014 10 years ago

Hi I recently posted over in mobile marketing about a similar question and thought maybe this would help as well.

Here is the thread

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- eliza925994 10 years ago
  
  "Web Host" and "Designer" loosely for convenience. In truth, to be an actual web host would be a little more involved than what we're going to propose here (though you could still do it with WordPress with plugins like WHMCS MU Provisioning and WHMCS WP Integration). To be clear, however, those plugins are NOT necessary to do what's outlined in this post. Also, we've chosen the term "Designer" here, but in reality, of course you'd be responsible for getting the whole site together, not just the design aspect of it.
  
  the Designer primarily needs to decide if he/she will go after a niche market or whether the target market will be any type of business.
  
  For Designers, however, there is typically another option that isn't usually pursued by Web Hosts, and that's defining your market by location. So, for example, you might sell yourself as a web designer for businesses in XYZ City. Because of the higher income earned initially on each site, you can afford to have fewer clients and give them more personalized service - such as showing up at their offices and teaching them face to face how to do something.
  
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