[JOURNEY] - Web Design Biz | Outreach & SEO

Boriss said:

Hey,

We got same replies, on some emails we sent.

No need to keep your morale down. There are people like that in this world.

I would recommend you to scrape LinkedIn emails or Google Maps listings (emails) and give that a try.

Or you could offer value with your blog posts, something like this:

- post valuable information, to help people with their problem
- share your post on social media

PS: don't let your mood / morale go down because of nasty replies. Keep grinding and don't give up!

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Thanks.
I appreciate the words.
It's unacceptable to ruin my day for a nasty reply.
Easier to say than do somehow, but a good opportunity for personal growth.

Good luck with your journey. Once you find a few clients, and they are satisfied with what you offer, you will get the snowball effect from referrals. At least that's what happened to me. Got a few family/friend leads, and from them, they are just recommending me for various projects like web design, SEO, FB Ads. I take real good care for my clients, and they always bring in new ones.

You could also try Upwork.

Stefan9301 said:

You could also try Upwork.

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I'm doing it as well

Waiting for updates

Interesting journey, wishing you all the best on it and also following, as I was curious about trying something similar myself.

I want you to keep going however. The idea of quiting might flow around your mind quite often now but I want you to blow it out.
Keep trying even if you'll fail 100 more times.
The great thing about having consistency even if you fail is that with each fail, if you're committed, you'll increase your efficiency.

What takes you 3 hours of work today, might take you 2 hours tomorrow and maybe 1 hour the day after.

Take a look on this method, maybe it could help give you an idea on where you could find clients as well.
[Guide] How to earn $5,000+ per month from Adsense without an Adsense Accounts

It's a really interesting and unique method that could work well with what you're trying to do.

Good luck with everything! You can do this

cloakedsro said:

Interesting journey, wishing you all the best on it and also following, as I was curious about trying something similar myself.

I want you to keep going however. The idea of quiting might flow around your mind quite often now but I want you to blow it out.
Keep trying even if you'll fail 100 more times.
The great thing about having consistency even if you fail is that with each fail, if you're committed, you'll increase your efficiency.

What takes you 3 hours of work today, might take you 2 hours tomorrow and maybe 1 hour the day after.

Take a look on this method, maybe it could help give you an idea on where you could find clients as well.
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/guide-how-to-earn-5-000-per-month-from-adsense-without-an-adsense-accounts.1246607/

It's a really interesting and unique method that could work well with what you're trying to do.

Good luck with everything! You can do this

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I really appreciate your words.

I might write about some unsuccess.
I might write something upset me.

But when the word "quitting" pop up, my only answer is and always will be this.

You can do very well in this space If you just persevere. Focus on local cities or towns with not much competition for web design and build pages for those.

Get your biz on review sites/ directories (tpilot, yelp, gmb, facebook etc) And build reviews on all of them. You can do that yourself if you have multiple emails and VPN or ask friends to drop keyword reviews. These ones tend to rank very well locally and in most cases above your own site. (Plus social proof is very important)

Next you need to figure out your business model.

Would you rather have recurring income (charge monthly website management fee $50-$100) and dont charge anything for initial website setup

Charge just website (300-1000)

Charge for website setup (300-1000) + monthly maintenance (20-50)

Each of these could work well, but in my opinion the first option is easier to swallow by the business owner, because in most cases they have no clue about website building and management. Think from a business owner perspective: he Ultimately wants more clients So you position yourself as the guy who can bring his business online for a fraction of the cost of his RENT + BILLS + POTENTIAL STAFF.

All you have to do is buy his domain and host it on your shared hosting account (Least hassle for your client) , optimise his website on page, build his directories And optimise those to rank.

In most local towns/cities it should be fairly easy to rank the businesses over time without much link building. (Just proper content)

Bottom line: think as a business owner who has no time Or desire for messing with website design himself and make it dead easy for him to get online. And then charge monthly management for keeping website Live and problem free and making small edits. (Virtually nothing on your part) It will eventually bring in calls and messages and they will be happy. That's who you want to attract!

bra08002602 said:

You can do very well in this space If you just persevere. Focus on local cities or towns with not much competition for web design and build pages for those.

Get your biz on review sites/ directories (tpilot, yelp, gmb, facebook etc) And build reviews on all of them. You can do that yourself if you have multiple emails and VPN or ask friends to drop keyword reviews. These ones tend to rank very well locally and in most cases above your own site. (Plus social proof is very important)

Next you need to figure out your business model.

Would you rather have recurring income (charge monthly website management fee $50-$100) and dont charge anything for initial website setup

Charge just website (300-1000)

Charge for website setup (300-1000) + monthly maintenance (20-50)

Each of these could work well, but in my opinion the first option is easier to swallow by the business owner, because in most cases they have no clue about website building and management. Think from a business owner perspective: he Ultimately wants more clients So you position yourself as the guy who can bring his business online for a fraction of the cost of his RENT + BILLS + POTENTIAL STAFF.

All you have to do is buy his domain and host it on your shared hosting account (Least hassle for your client) , optimise his website on page, build his directories And optimise those to rank.

In most local towns/cities it should be fairly easy to rank the businesses over time without much link building. (Just proper content)

Bottom line: think as a business owner who has no time Or desire for messing with website design himself and make it dead easy for him to get online. And then charge monthly management for keeping website Live and problem free and making small edits. (Virtually nothing on your part) It will eventually bring in calls and messages and they will be happy. That's who you want to attract!

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I've changed my strategy for the month coming and it's very similar to what you said.
I've been building some demo for specific professionals/industries, so i will just try to sell them at a low price, offering also customization, set up and local SEO as you've explained.

I feel this is a crazy good offer for the ones who will accept it.

This month goal is get to the end of February with 5 demos sold, means i will have a full body of real client work and 5-6 real testimonials/reviews.

Keep contacting people daily.
Both social media outreach and cold emailing.

I've also started to bid on Upwork.

Still nothing, not even a person interested. Some mean replies here and then.

Keep going.

2 months after I started this journey.
No results.

I realized people don't care about having websites.

Some of them just want results. Results can be "more business".
Mostly of them don't even need that.

I realized selling SEO doesn't make sense.
Good luck asking someone to pay you monthly for 6 months and then, maybe, after six months, they would start to see results.

I think PPC is what actually have a sense.
Easy to understand for everyone. Results relatively fast. Straight to the point.
A website (or just landing pages) are a natural consequence, not something you try to sell at random.

#failure