what's up everybody, Tyler Horvath Here. welcome to another episode of The
Daily T on this episode I am gonna show you five ways that you can get more web
design clients so if you run a web design business or you're thinking about
starting a web design business and you don't know where to even start to get
clients I'm gonna show you five really great sources where you can get great
web design clients on and offline so the first one probably believe the least
favorite one is cool calling so simply calling businesses and asking them if
they're interested in your services as a web designer now you can't turn cold
calling into warm calling by finding better leads to call then you know just
calling random people in the phone book in you know an industry that you want to
do web design for so let's say that you are a web designer and you want to
specialize in you know chiropractic and by the way if
you didn't know it's a good idea to specialize in a certain type of website
because you're a lot more likely to to get that sale if you know you specialize
in their industry and if you're you know just doing a ton of web design there's a
lot more competition and it's gonna be a lot harder to to get the sale so make
sure that you are specific in an industry like chiropractics or you know
physical therapy or dentists stuff like that make sure you're really specific
and make sure that you have a portfolio already so if you're just starting out
you can actually create a fake website you know buy a ten dollar domain name
that has your industry that you want to do so let's let's just go with
chiropractors so you want to do web design for chiropractors you know buy a
fake domain name that has chiropractor in it and you know either design your
own website there or put a wordpress template on there and customize it to
the fake business and you can actually show this to customers and you know show
them that you've already done the work and they don't know that it's a fake
website and they can see you know your your talent so when you're cold calling
and you want to turn it into warm calling go and find chiropractors in
your area you know have a website that doesn't
work on mobile or you know there's there's buttons all over the place and
the design doesn't look good or it looks like it's you know from like ten years
ago and you can actually start calling those
companies and mentioning to them you know I was on your website I noticed
that the mobile doesn't work and you know it needs this SEO or whatever or
whatever and you know we are a web design company and we'd love to you know
work with you and get this things fixed you know and you're gonna have to call a
lot of people and you know you won't get as much leads as you think but you will
get a few leads if you call you know fifty to a hundred people you'll get a
few leads and if you're you know selling your services for two to five thousand
dollars it's totally worth the time it takes to you know call all those people
and get a lot of nose just to get those few yeses that will be you know a couple
grand so so the next one is pretty similar cold emailing so pretty much the
same as cool calling which are just gonna be emailing people so just like
the first one you can look up you know websites in your industry that you know
don't look good that they need SEO something's you know aired out or
whatever and find the owner or you know one of the management teams email and
you can email them and say hey I was on your website I noticed that it didn't
work on mobile and then you can pitch your services
now hold the emailing just like cold calling you'll have to do volume so find
a lot of email addresses and you know you can send out mass emails or you can
you know kind of customize it more to each business and that will actually
increase your chances of getting the sale another good tip for cold emailing
that I've done in the past is making a you know like a free mock-up for a
company so look for a company that has a website that looks like crap and either
design a website and WordPress and put it up or design one in Photoshop or
illustrator that you know kind of a free mock-up for them of what you could do to
their website and a lot of people will see that go oh my gosh like you can give
me a website that looks like this for only you know $2,000 $3,000 and it's a
super easy sell when you do it like that so just a good tip when you are cold
calling or cold you can actually create you know a
mock-up for them for free it take you know 30 minutes create a nice mock-up
that's simple but kind of gives them an idea of what you can do now the next way
is by networking now this is probably one of the best ways to do it and it was
fun because you can get out you can meet new people and you can you know find a
lot of people who need web design just by talking to people because a lot of
company owners you know they don't need know that they need the web design or
the SEO so when you network you can meet a lot of people and tell them you know
what you do in the bank oh well I actually needed a website and you know
it works like that really easy now there's always networking events in
every city just go to meetup.com and you can find a ton of networking events for
web design or for you know just general business networking and make some cards
bring your cards and you know hand them out to as many people as possible and
start you know networking and finding clients that way so the next thing that
you can do is use online services like udemy or freelancer com I think there's
also like you gurus comm there's a few websites where you can actually sign up
as a you know a service person and you can find people who are looking for
certain web design projects so the important thing with these types of
services is just getting started so when you first start out no one's gonna want
to hire you because you don't have any ratings they don't know you know your
services or how good you are so make sure that you have a portfolio that you
can put on there and when you first start out you're going to need to just
do as many projects as you can for as cheap as you can just try and get the
projects and this way you can get good ratings or reviews which in turn will
make it a lot easier to get projects in the future I have done over I believe
150 projects on udemy and I have a 96 percent rating pretty much all 5 stars
and I get invites all the time to to do people's projects and I don't even have
to proposals anymore people just send me
advice all the time I probably get five to ten a day just because my rating is
so good on udemy so these are great ways to start out and find great clients
online and then you can start working with them more and more in the future
and that move that moves to the next one which is referrals
now referrals are people who you know refer you to someone else so if you do a
great job for somebody and you know they tell their friend like oh yeah you know
I just got my website made by you know Tyler and it's really awesome you should
check them out if you want to you know get your website redone and I get a lot
of business for my web design company by referrals just people either working
with one of my clients and my client telling them about me because they loved
the service so much or I also put you know a link back to my website and all
the websites that I do in the footer and that's another way to get referrals to
your web design company so the more projects and the more websites you can
do the more links to your you know your website company that you can put in the
footer and the more and more referrals that you can get coming in so these are
five simple ways to get web design clients online and offline if you've
started a web design company and you're looking to get more leads I hope this
helps you just know that it's gonna be a work and it starts out very slow and
after you know while you'll start seeing more and more clients coming in from
referrals and networking and all that stuff so if you want to have leads
coming from a bunch of different sources try all of these comment below if they
helped you I would love to hear about it you can also comment below if you have
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