Cold Calling / Webdesign Sales -Questions

tony_d said:

ShadyContent, if you want to successfully sell websites by cold calling, and average a 35-50% conversion rate, follow the steps below. It worked for me, back in the day, and the same concept will work for you.

- find ugly/shitty websites that are old and need a re-work (no offense, but just like yours)
- do the re-work, using a template. Make it look amazing. Should take <2hrs all in all.
- call them, and say "I found your website, and no offense, it looks old and crap. So I made you a new one. I think you'll love it. Let me send you a link to it, and if you like it, you can buy it from me. If you don't like it, you owe me nothing at all".
- either sell it to them for $400/$500, or rent it to them for $28/mth for 2 years, and tell them the upside to renting is that every 2 years they'll get an updated design, included in the package!
- repeat steps 1-3, and make >$5-10k a month, from your very first month.
- with a suite of 5-10 templates, there's not much that you can't crank out in a few hours.
- OPTIONALLY, hire virtual/remote staff for the design part.

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tony_d said:

No, just create a subdomain/subfolder on your server for each client site. It takes about 3.6 seconds to do so - and you can then send them a link directly to that.

And yes, if they buy it, you can send them the files or even offer to set it up on their server for free (again, should only take a few moments).

If they rent it, you should include hosting (just get a reseller account for $20 a month) and then change their name servers on their domain to your hosting account... that way, if they stop paying their rental, and don't want to take your calls to discuss it, their site can be taken down.

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ShadyContent said:

I plan to start cold calling tomorrow, I'm going to use vanillasoft CRM and leads scrapped from Google maps. Is anyone doing anything similar? If so can you please answer some questions and give me any advice you may have to help me succeed.

How successful have you been cold calling and making sales for web design & development?
Is it worth paying the $30 a month to accept credit cards over the phone with Paypal or will emailing Paypal buttons work?
I'd like to avoid meeting clients how possible is it to make the sale on the phone/email and never meet?
How many calls should I plan on making each day?

Also does anyone have success selling temples if so how do you go about pitching them?

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tony_d said:

ShadyContent, if you want to successfully sell websites by cold calling, and average a 35-50% conversion rate, follow the steps below. It worked for me, back in the day, and the same concept will work for you.

- find ugly/shitty websites that are old and need a re-work (no offense, but just like yours)
- do the re-work, using a template. Make it look amazing. Should take <2hrs all in all.
- call them, and say "I found your website, and no offense, it looks old and crap. So I made you a new one. I think you'll love it. Let me send you a link to it, and if you like it, you can buy it from me. If you don't like it, you owe me nothing at all".
- either sell it to them for $400/$500, or rent it to them for $28/mth for 2 years, and tell them the upside to renting is that every 2 years they'll get an updated design, included in the package!
- repeat steps 1-3, and make >$5-10k a month, from your very first month.
- with a suite of 5-10 templates, there's not much that you can't crank out in a few hours.
- OPTIONALLY, hire virtual/remote staff for the design part.

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