I had my first paying customer! YES!

Congrats man! Looking bright for you in the future buddy!

Congratulations Jack,

Hopefully more to come in the future.

Because you have taken action and done then necessary steps to attract customers to your business and you have made your first sale, you are now on a completely different league to a large proportion of marketers who are struggling to make their first dollar.

Because you have got your first paying customer, something has changed in your brain. You now know that this is real and it works. You should have no problem in scaling up and getting more customers. If you want to grow your business larger I recommend you:

1. Look at what worked: How did you get your first customer?. What steps did you take to market your business to get you first customer and sale? Once you have found out what worked, you just need to scale it up. This will involve either more of your time, or money but your results will incease!

2. Overdeliver:: As a new business one of the main things you should focus on is giving more and more value to your customers.
Ask yourself the following questions: What does my customer like about my service, What makes my business different from other similar businesses in my niche? You focus should always make your customer happy and ecstatic.
Why? Because your customers will tell their friends and family about your business bringing you even more customers!

3. Keep working on yourself: It is very important to invest in you personal development and your education. Study your industry look at what is currently hot and what people are talking about. Study your competition, because you can learn a lot from your competition. And most importantly study yourself.

What has also helped me along my journey is writing long term and short term goals, listening to marketing audiobooks, and and just simply working on my personal development.

By working on and developing yourself, you will find better ways to grow your business and to provide more value to you customers

Congrats once again, and I wish you more success in for the coming future!

Congratulations Jack!

So, what are you going to do with that newly earned money? If you don't need it for anything, I would advise putting it straight back into your business and advertising. If you are based in a small town or somewhere rural, try some offline advertising. There's a lot of rural businesses who don't have, but need websites. If you live in a more populated area, maybe look into AdWords or a premium/feature advert on a listing website (if you are UK based, gumtree is really good for that kind of thing, but there are plenty of others).

The most important thing is to experiment a bit. See what way of gaining new clients works best for you. Once you have you preferred method, focus on it and try to make it as efficient as possible and increase your conversion rate, then grow from there.

Good luck!

Great. I suggest create your facebook fan page. advertise your page on facebook to get LIKES and also promote your website. This will give you lots of new clients.

Why not create an Upwork/oDesk account since you're just starting out? You can get a lot of clients from there.

Ya man!! Celebrate those small victories

Jack,

Congrats on your first few sales online. Now you know how to get customers.

What you can do now from your current and future customers is to sell them more products on the back end. This will help you earn more money from each customer.

Congratulations! Now all you have to do is keep on going.

I remember my very first paying customer in the digital world. I made $5.00 dollars and did not know what to do after that. I had no idea of "Rinse and Repeat" at the time, so I forgot about the customer and had to start over from the beginning.
So let that be a lesson, take care of your customers. Send them thanks you notes, email them with valuable info or gifts, etc.
Funnel a percentage of the money back into the business.

Congratulations!

You never forget your first sale

i know what you're talking about. thats AMAZING feeling!

i will never forget my first sale!

Congratulation for your brilliant success. I can still remember my first earning form the Online. It will be on my mind forever. I was so curies when I will get the money, finally I really got the money. then it gives me more inspiration to do more work.
Carry on. The web design is a good profession. I hope you will be able to reach to your destination. Best of luck.

Congratulations on your success. Keep working at it

This feeling that you are talking about actually reinforces from the same part of the brain where drug addiction is formed. They did a study on this and concluded that making money has the same addiction as smoking cannabis. LOL.

Anyway, congrats again. Work smart.

Good job Jack. It's great to see people implement the good techniques on this forum, and come out with sales from the advice. Keep marketing, create your own products and backend products, and keep getting leads on a daily basis. Then finally automate your business 95%. At the end of the day, you want time freedom. That's the ultimate form of freedom.