ygg
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- Feb 8, 2011
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You're welcome to my new journey - getting 25 clients for our starting web design business - website creation / speed optimization / etc.
Me and my partner are trying to dive into the web design niche. Yeah, it's super saturated, there are bad actors too, and frustrated clients who've been scammed... and also people offering complete websites for $50!
I'm creating this thread to keep some accounting, motivate myself and others, share knowledge, network, etc.
We already sold several websites to friends and referrals in the previous months, but this was just to get us started, and have some runway money.
Now we try to find clients outside of our immediate contacts and friends by different methods.
I'll update with what we're doing, how it works out, etc. Here's for starters of what we did this week:
Current main challenge is to book our calendar with meetings, and stay organised with leads from different channels. Check back my thread for more!
Me and my partner are trying to dive into the web design niche. Yeah, it's super saturated, there are bad actors too, and frustrated clients who've been scammed... and also people offering complete websites for $50!
I'm creating this thread to keep some accounting, motivate myself and others, share knowledge, network, etc.
We already sold several websites to friends and referrals in the previous months, but this was just to get us started, and have some runway money.
Now we try to find clients outside of our immediate contacts and friends by different methods.
I'll update with what we're doing, how it works out, etc. Here's for starters of what we did this week:
- Cold calling ±700 local dentists who had no website, and this led to absolutely nowhere. Complete 0 interest
- Changed the niche, and we booked 2 appointments from first 60 calls today, so we're not yet ditching the cold calling. We were in the wrong neighbourhood...
- Cold emailing: booked a meeting from first 300 cold emails, but the guy was a cheapo, thinking we're ripping him off for a $500 business website. Another lead showed potential, but not yet turned into a meeting.
- 1 meeting booked from Facebook
Current main challenge is to book our calendar with meetings, and stay organised with leads from different channels. Check back my thread for more!