Really Need Some Advice

Its probably going into a spam folder.

I'm sending emails to 50 to 100 different individuals. I'm not sending to a list. I'm trying to get some clients.

You're not getting a response because of a few possible reasons:

1) Spam - good answer, DC!
2) You have not sent the emails to a targeted list (for your niche)
- are they interested already?
- do they have a website?
- where did you get this list and what were your paremeters?
3) They don't need your services
4) The emails are old/closed

Suggestions:
1) Get a list with phone numbers and call it and ONLY go for email addresses of INTERESTED, qualified (to your ideal client), people. You can always try to set up the CB/appt there by doing the "great, I'll send this out tonight, will you be in on Thursday to go over a few key points?" If they are a no go, or an email only, there's a good shot they aren't interested, but still send it and follow up.
2) Send them the email you told them you would
3) Call them back in a few days to make sure they got it and discuss it

Doing this guarantees that the emails you send are solicited and they have a much higher probability of being read and/or turned into a sale.

Quick question: are you tracking opens and click throughs (if applicable) on these emails?

You also need to spell Complementary correctly. I know if I get mail and it has numerous spelling errors I am more likely to delete it.

I stand corrected...and it is rare that I am wrong about spelling but thank you for that.
I guess we are all human.

I used to send a lot of emails looking for business. I learned that your webhost can and will ban you if you're using your domain email to send that many unsolicited emails. If you go with a service like gmail and you get too many bounces, non-replies, you could also have your account deleted. On top of all that, sending that many means that they really aren't personalized, so you really are wasting your time.

I got quite good at them, testing various subjects and email copy by sending many hundreds per week. I got a lot of responses, but only a few clients, and for the amount of time I put in, it wasn't worth it.

I started to get much better results when I sent out 5-10 personalized emails per day. I got really targeted with my message, going after those doing PPC, and it started to work well.

I would also suggest going after ONE piece of business you know well, whether it's site redesign, email marketing setup, etc. Pick one thing and go for it to earn trust before putting yourself forward as a jack of all trades.

I would also suggest you consider how you're presenting yourself - as a "company" or as a "person." I started by going after one vertical and making sure your my website reflected my expertise in that industry, but then started to do much better just presenting myself as a person with some skills. All website copy was written very personally, no professional rhetoric... I got a lot of compliments on that website and closed some nice business with it.

Also... get a portfolio put together on your site. Make it easy to find and browse. Your week would be much better spent developing your first portfolio (even if it's only example sites) than sending out cold emails and directing people to a site that doesn't reflect the skills you have.

I hope that helps.

may be your mails are going in their spam box
first create a yahoo or google group add your email list their then send them emails this way emails will directly go in their inbox
and try to make your email colorful and use catchy title like must read

Business owners get tons of emails like this and just ignore them. If you want to get your emails read, you need to be different.

Instead of talking about "Complementary Website for [name]", make your subject line address a pain point for the business you are going after. Something like "[name], some ideas on how you can improve your website to get more leads"

Email sounds so painless -- and that's why everyone turns to if first. Including me. However, due to poor response when email prospecting, I ditched emails for personalized postcards. MUCH better response. Yes, there's a cost involved, and more time invested for sure. However, the response is so much better that in the long-run, it provides a very solid return on investment.

Hi,

Are you making sure that the businesses you're sending the emails to actually could do with a new website?

How is your email campaign structured? Is it niche-specific or do you have different structured email content per target market/niche?

For instance, 'speaking' to the attorney would be a different approach to speaking (communicating) with a dentist or chiropractor. If you use the same language for all your campaigns I'm pretty confident that it might be one of the key problems you need to overcome.

BAYO

Hi Rahel,

Nice looking website; however, the content does not make me want to get a website from you because it does not establish your credibility and Uniqueness.

These are some questions your site shoud answer for a prospect:
1) Did you decide to be a web developer yesterday, or do your have training and experience?
2) Why should I hire you over all of the other web dev people? What makes you and your firm the best? What makes you different? How will your service benefit my business?

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Sell via networking and face to face. If you need a portfolio, do a complimentary or reduced rate website for a local charity or small town (a lot of the other businesses in that town become prospects as do those involved with the charity). Make money on the rest at a competitive rate for the market and your experience.

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Study prospect's websites which could use improvement and are in markets where they need a good web presence and it looks like they have and will spend money on web design, dev, and marketing.

CALL them with a simple call. This Rahel with ... and I have studied your website (or web presence...) and noticed some things which will help you get more business from the internet (web design, google places, FB ...). And I was wondering if I could email a report (or video) with my ideas to you and then maybe we could meet and talk more.

IF yes, promptly create said report or video and email it to them and ask for the meeting....

Dan




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If they don't know you, like you or trust you, why would they open your emails?

Maybe consider a bit of targetting on Linkedin.

Join say 10 niche related groups on Linkedin with reasonably high memberships

Start a post with a leading, qualifying question in the headline/subectline, and link out to your website.

Monitor the Click thru rate

Your post will be included in the group mailing that goes out to all members listing activity in the group for that day so the more interesting you can make your headline
the more chance, you'll get a response. Bare in mind if you are a member of say 10 groups with an average 50,000 members in each group, then thats 500,000 inboxes your message is going to and they've opted in to receive it, as well them visiting each of the groups to read it

Hope that makes sense.

I would say your leads aren't targeted enough, if you find more focused leads, for example, Craigslist or Linked In, you'll find that your response rate will be higher.

all have givn you a good suggestion!! never retreat and keep going !! wish you luck!

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