Web Designer Advantage

3 replies
  • WEB DESIGN
  • |
If you are web designer, you have a distinct advantage over most other service providers or product owners online. Why? You don't have to spend a penny on advertising. If you do spend money, great...but you really don't have to in order to make a living online as web designer.

All you have to do is submit some templates or themes to the various open source communities and free template sites, and make sure your link is at the footer of all your work. And those templates and themes will be downloaded hundreds or thousands of times. It becomes viral, because many people leave the link to you on their website. And all of a sudden you have backlinks.

You have just discovered the web designer's viral marketing strategy.

You can decide which license you'll use to release your work: Public Domain, Creative Commons, or GNU public. Personally, I submitted a few as Creative Commons, but mostly I just release them as Public Domain in the true spirit of giving. And believe me it pays off, big time.

Remember the old saying, the more you give, the more you get? People like generous people. If you are generous with your site's visitors, if you instill trust in them, by giving them lots of value, and a reason to come visit your site, they will want to do business with you, or they will recommend you to someone who does.

So you budding web designers out there: get your free templates and themes submitted to as many free template sites as possible. Remember to leave your link in the footer of every template or theme you produce and just give away lots of free stuff, but then charge accordingly when someone does want to hire you.

Regarding what to charge - well that's a topic for another day. Just remember to never sell yourself short.
#advantage #designer #web
  • Profile picture of the author GreatWebSuccess
    Hey Karen,

    I can't agree with you more regarding your last comment - it's so true. I totally agree with everything else that you mentioned here in your post, offering and giving away your templates / themes is really a great way to build massive backlinks quickly.

    The more you give the more you'll get back in return, nobody likes a scrooge or a greedy person. That's typically how it is with Internet Marketing and with anything else in life.
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1496738].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author tuanng
    Thats a great tip Karen.

    This tip does not only work for web designers, but for any SEO or IM'ters... hire some designer to do some themes for you and link to your site in the footer.

    Scenario: You can spend $500 to get 5 themes, 5 themes downloaded 100x each = 500 blogs/sites link back to your site = money well spent I reckon!
    Signature

    Need 3D ebook covers right NOW? Make your own at myecovermaker.com

    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1502142].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author Agz21
    I think the idea to spread the theme can give you an extra money by selling signature links. I've seen many people selling links in their wp theme. So you earn some money that worth the same as a standard themes design fees. And you can also spreading your backlinks
    Signature
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1550721].message }}

Trending Topics