Quick Guide: Finding Reptile Breeder Web Design Clients

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For those of you who do web design for businesses, here's something you may not have considered when searching for clients: reptile businesses.

You see, I have both pets and rescues of all types, including reptiles, so one gap I've noticed is that many breeders do not have a website.

Yes, really.

You can look all over various discussion boards, and it's just people telling you to go to Morph Market (basically a reptile Craigslist) or a specific dealer who only does business exclusively in Facebook groups or their Facebook page (yuck!).

Both of these options have issues, and from my dealings with breeders in my local area, I know they want a website, they just don't know how to get one. Do you know what that sounds like to me?
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In fact, I know it's money because I've built these kind of websites for breeders. They typically aren't picky clients, pay well, and usually don't want anything complex.

If you want to easily find these businesses, simply search Reddit using a query such as one of the following:
Where to buy a garter snake site:reddit.com
Where to buy a captive bred garter snake site:reddit.com
Where to buy a CB garter snake site:reddit.com
I'm focusing on garter snakes here, but any uncommon pet reptile will do. Red-eyed crocodile skinks are one such example: they're in high demand as many people want a "cute little dragon", but it's very hard to find them captive bred. So:
  1. Search Reddit for a breeder who offers captive bred red-eyed crocodile skinks
  2. Read through the discussions whilst looking up any names mentioned. Note down the ones who do not have websites.
  3. Reach out to the breeders and offer to build them a website
The breeder will get a website, you'll get paid well for an easy job, and their customers will have an easy-to-access site where they can see the breeder's current stock and contact them. Everybody wins here.

List of "Uncommon" Pet Reptiles
  • Garter snakes
  • Red-eyed crocodile skinks
  • White-eyed crocodile skinks
  • Blue-tongue skinks
  • Fire skinks
  • Ackie monitor lizards
  • Argentine tegu
  • Day geckos
Really, anything you can't readily find in a Petco or Petsmart can work. Use ChatGPT or a similar program to generate a list if you want.
 
This is awesome! Do you have an example of a good message you use to reach out?
 
With Google Maps Scraper you can remove all the businesses without a website from any business, you're welcome ;)

https://seosoftware.info/es/google-maps-scraper/
 
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