OMG HELP! Just booked my first offline client presentation and my mind is racing!!
I need some help here!
A friend of mine works at an eye doctor's office, and when she heard that I do internet marketing she asked "can you make websites?"
I said I do that and other things to generate money for businesses, and she said that her boss (the doctor) is moving their office to a bigger location and wants to have a website created since the business doesn't have one.
They showed me a flashy website of another surgeon in the city with flash images etc. (but no backlinks or SEO stuff on the site according to SEO Elite)
Here's my dilemna, the doctor wants to meet with me after work on Monday the 11th to discuss setting up a website...and I'm freakin out!
I only just recently purchased the offline marketing WSOs here on WF and still getting my feet with them...
One WSO in particular recommended having the client select a template which was chosen from TemplateMonster.com, then having it customized at RentACoder.com (this would of course be coming out of the couple thousand dollars the customer gives for marketing etc.)
My problems are the following (and I need help!):
A) I can only really take screenshots of the templates since you have to buy to download and show them off. (I could get free templates from HostGator but they are SO TINY that nothing barely fits!!)
B) Most of the templates are flash based (seems like the doctor likes flash-based sites) and I don't know if its possible to put an autoresponder into a site like that (a main selling feature of offline marketing)
C) All the WSOs have different strategies that SEEM like they would work and I *DONT* know which strategy to go with!
Should I give out a free site and charge a MONTHLY fee for marketing and promotion (while maintaining ownership of the domain name which I would register), or should I have them build their own site and charge a ONE TIME fee to setup with an optional monthly fee to maintain it?
I'm currently leaning towards the "free" site with monthly charging since the web designer that did the surgeon's site has contacted this same Doctor offering his services.
I'm thinking I could offer him hosting on my reseller account, with a free customized website from a chosen template (but HTML or FLASH!?!) and also autoresponder setup and maintenance...
D) I don't have a merchant account setup yet for my business, so I could only really accept cash unless I create a paypal link and have him pay through that...but then paypal might freeze my account if I all of a sudden get a lump sum payment of $5,000+???
E) I haven't had a chance to figure out how much I'd charge for certain services or packages (video creation, Web 2.0, bookmarking, backlinks, etc.)
gah, I don't know what to do!
What would you guys do in my situation right now? What would be your strategy / to-do list over the next SIX DAYS!?
PS - Delaying isn't an option since I work shift work I wouldn't have a chance to meet him in person again until the following week...and that other designer might just steal him away if that happens!
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