I provide the cheapest, yet I cannot find customers
- Thread starter Denokazs
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- Mar 8, 2009
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Instead of coding websites for others, why not try creating your own projects? Have you ever seen a problem plugin, and maybe you could code a better solution? Try thinking outside the box, maybe by working on your side projects, and when you do, you might not need other people's business. Just a thought....
xcreator22
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- Mar 14, 2026
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The problem is that "free" or "cheapest" for someone with 11 years of experience acts as a major red flag for low quality or a potential scam, so you need to immediately pivot to a "Value-Based Pricing" model that emphasizes the high-level ROI of your custom builds rather than competing in a race to the bottom where nobody trusts the winner.
Yoram
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- Jun 2, 2021
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Instead of competing against AI, present yourself as programmer who is capable of working with AI. There's going to be people who still rather prefer talking to you instead of going through the process of familiarising with AI tools (or website builders).
Keep presenting your portfolio which is rich of self coded websites. There'll always be a market for programmers but I understand times are rough.
Keep presenting your portfolio which is rich of self coded websites. There'll always be a market for programmers but I understand times are rough.
Bonvi
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You don't want to scrape the bottom of the barrel and you also don't want to be super expensive. You want to be slightly above the middle in your pricing. It's affordable but doesn't scream desperate or incompetent.
Free work sounds like a lot of headache because you have no experience and will need a lot of supervision and revisions (at least that's how people think who want to hire you)
Free work sounds like a lot of headache because you have no experience and will need a lot of supervision and revisions (at least that's how people think who want to hire you)
JustAnotherSmm
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Build a portfolio showcasing the great projects you've developed and show them to potential clients
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If you're offering websites for free after 11 years of experience, price isn't the problem. "Free" often scares clients away more than it attracts them, so I'd charge a fair price and focus on selling solutions for customer problems, not websites.
Plain simple example: a business owner wants more customers, not another website.
Plain simple example: a business owner wants more customers, not another website.
vierasen
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Free is the worst price point in any market — it signals "no value" louder than your portfolio signals "11 years of experience." Buyers literally use price as a quality proxy when they can't evaluate the work themselves, which is almost always. Charge fair market rate, lead with a specific case ("rebuilt X company's checkout, conversion +18%"), and the same outreach starts converting. Also worth checking: are you selling "websites" generically (commodity, race-to-bottom) or a specific outcome (lead capture, ecom revenue, etc.)? The first has infinite cheap competitors, the second has a much smaller buyer pool but they convert at non-zero margin.