Finding new Website clients?

[sparticus]

You just entered one of the most competitive markets, ever. The internet. Every Tom, Dick & Harry with a PC can design websites these days. And they often do it much cheaper, and sometimes even better than most companies can do it. It's a touch market and the economy is also very tight at the moment. Don't limit your services only to HTML. In fact, you'll quickly see that plain HTML sites have a small market these days. As said a few times, offer Wordpress, and / or Joomla websites as well. And, maybe, learn a shopping cart and offer that as a service as well. Go around your local neighborhood or town and go and visit the local businesses, even though they appear like "small fry". There are many untapped markets out there which don't have websites, purely because no-one has bothered contacting them. Think "old school". Most company owners who are in their 50's and older don't know much about the internet, google adwords, or social media. Their advertising is often limited to newspaper, magazines, flyers, etc. Go talk to them, find out what their marketing budget is and see if you can fit a website into that.

100% spot on , dont just stay with web designing , as a matter of fact I dont advertise as a web designer no more, I say web developer and explain to clients how much more value the correct social media can add to their brand. Hosting is also a good way to supplement your income , get a re-seller account (I recommend elitehost personally) Even small hosting solutions like email accounts hosting works.

There is a lot more to do than just web designing which will not necessary take you away from the design industry. Social Media and content management should be high on your list of investigating. Dont stress too much , things will get better. Just keep at it and network most important. Strangely though , face to face works better than via email or blogs etc. Hope this helps and I wish you the best

 

[RanzB]

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Google are still offering R600 free AdWords credit if you spend R200.
Check it out, and if you do decide to try this route, keep us posted on the results, i'd be interested to hear.

Any more info on this? Haven't got anything back after filling out that form.