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Any advice will be very appreciated.
Therefore, I think the key is adding value to these "cookiecutter" websites to justify your rates. Can you bring in a photographer to get some pictures of the business for social media and website use? I often find small business owners know they should be engaging on fb/ig more, and are stressed about the fact that they have nothing to post. Are you a hosting reseller? That could be an avenue for increased revenue as well.
I know my "adding value" spiel does not help with your "finding clients" question, I think byoung2 covered everything i'd recommend - walk into a ton of small businesses with mock-ups of their new websites and quotes for how much they'd cost.
Your website looks great btw.
In 2008 (the last time I did freelance web design) I was able to charge decent money for a custom website. Nowadays people can get that with WordPress and a $60 Themeforest template or something like Wix or Shopify. So you will have to compete with that (or layer value added serves on top). One interesting way I generated a lot of business back in the day was redesigning websites on spec. Basically I found businesses…
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If you shoot me your email I'll send you the entire manuscript so far. Also would love to hop on a call and just tell you everything I'm going to put in it -- looking for feedback on the content.
Hey, I'm a web developer and designer. I spent the last six years contracting, and just in the last three years I've 5x'd my rate actually. I'm writing a book about it: https://devcareer.elliotbonneville.com/ If you shoot me your email I'll send you the entire manuscript so far. Also would love to hop on a call and just tell you everything I'm going to put in it -- looking for feedback on the content.
Hey, I'm a web developer and designer. I spent the last six years contracting, and just in the last three years I've 5x'd my rate actually. I'm writing a book about it: https://devcareer.elliotbonneville.com/ If you shoot me your email I'll send you the entire manuscript so far. Also would love to hop on a call and just tell you everything I'm going to put in it -- looking for feedback on the content.
Sounds good mate Here's my email aladinbensassi@gmailcom lets set something up
Hey, I'm a web developer and designer. I spent the last six years contracting, and just in the last three years I've 5x'd my rate actually. I'm writing a book about it: https://devcareer.elliotbonneville.com/ If you shoot me your email I'll send you the entire manuscript so far. Also would love to hop on a call and just tell you everything I'm going to put in it -- looking for feedback on the content.
Mail is mitko dot p at gmail dot com, would love to read some of your stuff and give an opinion.
Minimum website project is 5.5k, the moment I just stopped working with smaller budget clients, the moment my time opened up to pursue more profitable partnerships. The cap on sales is only on production assets and could easily be 2xed using the same methods and more lenient sales tactics.
Most clients could care less about technology, but most of our projects are in Umbraco which allows us to not be apples to apples to your run of the mill wordpress providers (im personally a fan of wordpress and have hundreds of WP sites from my affiliate marketing and webdesign background)
I reviewed your portfolio, if I was hiring or looking for a web provider, it wouldn't work for me because nothing in the portfolio is complete. You should determine your audience also as most of your portfolio language is heavy with design terms, business owners (if that is your audience) should be talked to in their own language.