How do you find clients for web design
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You can search for companies in a City, using a directory listing service or similar. Find the ones that don't currently have a website, or the ones that have a very poor website. Then contact them with your offer.
You can advertise and/or post on social media.
You can try running a website competition to gain extra traction - offer a free website as first prize and then offer a discount to all of the entrants who did not win.
You can advertise and/or post on social media.
You can try running a website competition to gain extra traction - offer a free website as first prize and then offer a discount to all of the entrants who did not win.
Billy Batts
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I don't find them, they find me 
Harrrr
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How ??I don't find them, they find me
Sounds good , I've tried the business listing method before with cold emails but it brought very minimal results. They didn't even open the mails for the most part
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How about mixing the two ideas together - create a competition to win a free website, then email these leads. Don't mention that you know they don't have a website. Just email them with the subject line - free website competition.
Might make the emails more likely to be opened. Then you can build a list from these leads and hopefully convert them with a runners up discount.
NNemessiSS
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you can search freelancers sites that offer that service and register , it is simple
Billy Batts
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Well, simple, I have a bad-ass company FB page that people land on often because it get's suggested when people visit competitors pages and like BHW I answer questions about design and marketing in certain groups. Then naturally my own website looks better and is more functional than most of these wannabe designers.
And ofc once you have had a couple clients that are satisfied they will spread the word for you and also on every site/SM pages and projects I've worked on there is a backlink to my site.
Many more options though but I'm always to busy to them and I'm not in a hurry to get clients either, I only do a couple of them when I'm short on cash
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Go after everyone/individuals also. If you are offline you may meet someone who needs website. Individuals/any hobby/profession can be sold a website in some cases. If you go on Facebook, marketing/network marketing groups are full of people with no website. Youtubers may need website. If you check classifieds under services many people lack a website. This good method here; https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/method-how-to-make-xxx-xxxx-per-month-web-design-and-email.804994/
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On solution may be ( but this not guarantee you any sale ), to find old websites, re-design them and after that send an offer to the owner(s). For example, in the lawyers niche you can find a lot of old design websites. How do you find them? Go to attorney web directories, such hg [dot] org, and search them. Make a list with the old websites you find and start the work.
Before you will start the effective work, search for this:
1. The owner is still in the business - To find this, take a look on it's social media accounts ( Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, etc ). If it's still active there, there is a chance to get positive results.
2. The owner doesn't have another new website, already re-designed - In some cases, the owner simple let the old website and get to a new one ( with a new domain name, new design, etc ). Make sure that what you've found is not already redesigned. How do you find this? Simple: Paste the owner contact details ( phone number or the office name + location ) and see what Google reveal. If there are two websites with the same info, the chance to get it as a client become very low.
After the two steps above, start to redesign the website:
1. Put it under a subdomain of your website. Make sure that Google can't crawl it. In this way, you can avoid some copyright problems. You only want to show it to the owner. You can also put it under a "password protected" feature.
2. Redesign it and use the info from the old website - Because you are not 100% sure that the owner will buy the new website, don't work too much at the new design. Include only the most important content. This may be: Homepage, About ( or Our Attorneys, etc ) and Contact page ( most of them have static contact details, without any contact, map, etc. Try to improve this page ).
Contact the website owner, with your best quote. Make sure to include the full offer and some other freebies ( free hosting, free seo, etc ). If he don't want to buy the website, don't delete the website. Keep it there, password protected, in the idea that he will return. You don't have anything to lose.
This idea don't guarantee you any sales, but it's still better than nothing. If the new client is satisfied, he may recommend you to other people.
Cheers
Before you will start the effective work, search for this:
1. The owner is still in the business - To find this, take a look on it's social media accounts ( Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, etc ). If it's still active there, there is a chance to get positive results.
2. The owner doesn't have another new website, already re-designed - In some cases, the owner simple let the old website and get to a new one ( with a new domain name, new design, etc ). Make sure that what you've found is not already redesigned. How do you find this? Simple: Paste the owner contact details ( phone number or the office name + location ) and see what Google reveal. If there are two websites with the same info, the chance to get it as a client become very low.
After the two steps above, start to redesign the website:
1. Put it under a subdomain of your website. Make sure that Google can't crawl it. In this way, you can avoid some copyright problems. You only want to show it to the owner. You can also put it under a "password protected" feature.
2. Redesign it and use the info from the old website - Because you are not 100% sure that the owner will buy the new website, don't work too much at the new design. Include only the most important content. This may be: Homepage, About ( or Our Attorneys, etc ) and Contact page ( most of them have static contact details, without any contact, map, etc. Try to improve this page ).
Contact the website owner, with your best quote. Make sure to include the full offer and some other freebies ( free hosting, free seo, etc ). If he don't want to buy the website, don't delete the website. Keep it there, password protected, in the idea that he will return. You don't have anything to lose.
This idea don't guarantee you any sales, but it's still better than nothing. If the new client is satisfied, he may recommend you to other people.
Cheers
Philip Kim
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