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The Ultimate Guide to Starting and Running a Web Design Business – From Finding Your First Clients to Building your Brand
The prospect of starting a web design business can be a overwhelming. In today’s video I will answer your submitted questions one-by-one:
1. Getting that first client, since you can’t show them past jobs. How would you convince them to work with you? (2:53)
2. I’m trying to start a web development business as a minor (legally it will not be under my name until I’m 18) but I’m afraid people will turn me off because of my age…(3:58)
3. Finding clients when you’re an introvert. (7:17)
4. I’ve already opened up an office in Arizona, what is the best way to get clients during these times? (10:48)
5. Please talk about your experience with showing website pricing on your site vs. not showing it. (12:54)
6. On your pricing page, you charge a fee plus an amount per page. How do you come up with the figures used? (14:30)
7. Can you do it alone? Or do you need a team? How can you subcontract the items that you are not skilled enough for without losing all of your profit? (15:38)
8. What do you do when the client can’t/won’t provide text for the site? You can’t go live with Loren Ipsum. (17:41)
9. How do new web design businesses stand out from the crowd? (19:49)
10. How do you convince somebody to use your web design services if they aren’t interested in a new website? (20:40)
11. What are your best tips for designers that have just started? (21:04)
12. How much do your guys make? (21:24)
13. Do you have employees or contractors? (21:49)
14. What profit margin do you try to make on each project? (21:56)
15. Is having a storefront worth it? (22:12)
16. What should we look for when finding a perfect storefront? (23:03)
17. My question is: how to find clients in a poor country? (24:03)
18. Everybody in this group knows what Web Design or web development is in 2020, but the times they are a changing. What changes do you see coming? (25:06)
19. How do you get clients to build portfolio? Every client I reach out to asks for for one but once I explain that I am doing free work to build my portfolio, they don’t get back to me. (26:53)
20. How to scale an agency (website development/seo/logos) from 10k (alone) to 50k per month (alone or with a team) ? (27:47)
21. How can I market without social media? (29:41)
22. Do you have a set of fixed templates for the bronze package? Can you show what they look like? (31:04)
23. Probably a bit late but when taking a package approach to web design, would you recommend laying out the process? What I mean is have a something like a scope of work page about each step of the project process from start to finish and what they need to contribute. (31:47)
24. I’ve been providing monthly maintenance plans with a certain amount of hours depending on the plan they choose. A potential client is worried about going over the allotted time and paying an hourly rate. If I give them the next pricing plan, it will double their monthly fee. I don’t want to lose the client. How should I price my maintenance plans? (32:16)
25. I have a client who passed my details on to another company in the same field. The 2 companies have now had a big fall out and in being asked to drop the other company because of conflict of interests. My response was no there in two different parts of the country. What’s the best way to mitigate this issues in future. And thanks for the kind words on your voice message on insta Chris, motivation and food for thought. (33:15)
26. If you could go back, what SOPs/systems would you implement to automate things and make life easier? Such as lead generation/intro emails/on boarding emails etc (34:27)
27. Does the client provide all the text on the website if they don’t hire you for copywriting? And if they do hire you for that what’s the process like? (36:12)
28. When do you think is the right time to hire another developer? When you have enough money, or can’t handle all the work on your own? (36:07)
29. Also what would you say is your percentage of sales for a nerds world between Websites and SEO? (38:35)
30. What would be the strategy to get a remote web design and seo agency to 4 clients / $15,000 per month (39:17)
31. Most of the clients prefer not have a website rather they like to maintain a Facebook page. It’s free and they can build and maintain it by themselves. What do you tell them? (39:54)
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