Why I Can't Get Web Design Clients At $69/Website

I’ve been posting Facebook groups for some time and I haven't yet landed any client.

I thought it was the best offer @ $69 for a WordPress site, but no response and I mentioned to provide a free mock up.

Is the web design market saturated?

I normally post in marketplaces or buy and sell FB groups.

I will post a picture with one or two websites as a screenshot, just like the picture below. Is it that my designs aren't good enough?

Please what are the best sources or strategies to get web design clients consistently even at cheaper rates?

Here is a sample picture I would post;

maybe you dont get the right target group.

Cheapest is not the best.

People buy on reliability, not just price, but also on your experience and reputation.

Are you using dev licences for the themes and plugins or hacked/cracked ones?

Is the content good quality in your samples or littered with typos?

You don’t expect someone who wants to do something serious with his or her blog to opt in for $69 design unless they are being referred it will be hard to for you to get clients that way. What I suggest that you do is join group related to small businesses or Wordpress groups listen to the problems they got and try to provide value at the end you can easily sell them for even higher price

Add a zero or even two zero's and you'll get clients. For sub-prices you get sub-humans who only know how to bitch around and demand 10x more of what is agreed and still be unsatisfied.

I would not buy a site for 69.00... that comes off like cheap flea market stuff.

Build out a real nice site, use that for a demo and bump your pricing up.

IjjiMiLo said:

I’ve been posting Facebook groups for some time and I haven't yet landed any client.

I thought it was the best offer @ $69 for a WordPress site, but no response and I mentioned to provide a free mock up.

Is the web design market saturated?

I normally post in marketplaces or buy and sell FB groups.

I will post a picture with one or two websites as a screenshot, just like the picture below. Is it that my designs aren't good enough?

Please what are the best sources or strategies to get web design clients consistently even at cheaper rates?

Here is a sample picture I would post;

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Why don't you focus on niche web development service rather than a generic approach? Example, dentist. Showcast designs related to this niche and demonstrate your past work in this area. Niche will make you appeal more professional and easier to close potential clients.

IjjiMiLo said:

I’ve been posting Facebook groups for some time and I haven't yet landed any client.

I thought it was the best offer @ $69 for a WordPress site, but no response and I mentioned to provide a free mock up.

Is the web design market saturated?

I normally post in marketplaces or buy and sell FB groups.

I will post a picture with one or two websites as a screenshot, just like the picture below. Is it that my designs aren't good enough?

Please what are the best sources or strategies to get web design clients consistently even at cheaper rates?

Here is a sample picture I would post;

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I would kind of agree Website designing is very full market for the low end sort of customers for example I can fairly easy if I want to enough hire someone from say India for like $5 to say $50 quite easy the website can be anywhere from bad to pretty good or decent.

You can as well for example if you know Pbn building charge anywhere from like $10 to like a max of say $300 if the quality good enough.

You have to decide if you want to sell he cheap or expensive and also find your ideal customer hangout places for example you could do it on these sort of places

Fiverr
Guru.com
upwork.com
Your own website
SEO groups on Facebook which allow buying and selling
BHW you could sell on

I am just using this as a example lets say you deal with a very high quality company for example purposes say go with BMW or Coca Cola they would be expecting to pay giant money for it since expect big things done for example they may pay you to say $75,000 to build a website.

Kelvinyung said:

You don’t expect someone who wants to do something serious with his or her blog to opt in for $69 design unless they are being referred it will be hard to for you to get clients that way. What I suggest that you do is join group related to small businesses or Wordpress groups listen to the problems they got and try to provide value at the end you can easily sell them for even higher price

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I am not offering blog design, i design business sites.

callmecrist said:

Why don't you focus on niche web development service rather than a generic approach? Example, dentist. Showcast designs related to this niche and demonstrate your past work in this area. Niche will make you appeal more professional and easier to close potential clients.

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That has come to mind but never give it a try, I'll consider that. Thanks

I hate to be the one to break this to you, but if you start out your online freelancing career or service provision business competing on price, it’s going to be a tough road ahead.

It doesn’t matter whether you write content, do SEO, build backlinks, or produce websites—if you compete based on price, you are not doing yourself any favors.

In fact, you may be painting yourself into a corner that has a very nasty ending.

Even Stevie Wonder can see that the global market for labor services is a race to the bottom.

As more and more people plug in to the internet, a lot more people from developing countries, low-wage countries, and countries with huge populations are competing for low-hanging fruit.

So if you advertise your web design services for low rates, don’t expect to get a ton of customers.

If anything, you're branding yourself as a cheap provider, and the moment you even think about increasing your price, your customers will jump ship.

I've seen this happen all the time!

So how do you fix this?

It’s very simple: you specialize.

So instead of creating $69 websites for any and all industries, focus on one industry.

You might have to work for free trying to cut your teeth into that industry, but the more you come up with the look and feel, as well as the experience, that certain industry players are looking for, the more likely they will refer specialized jobs for you.

This is what will help you succeed because you'll be able to charge a lot more money with the same amount of work than before.

Although this means less projects over an extended period of time, the high price tag will more than compensate for it.

Also, you can use this time to pack more value into your projects.

A little bit of specialization and industry niche specificity can go a long way.