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I was going to go for copywriting but didn't think my level of English was decent enough to do it full time. I am actually dyslexic and have to spell check everything I write and usually make quite a lot of (sometimes funny) mistakes. One example is launching a site with an "intense" course instead of "intensive" <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/woot.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":woot:" title="Woot :woot:" data-shortname=":woot:" />. <br />
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I went through a few weeks of trying everything at the start of the year and finally clicked with web design. I have a good eye for design, detail and layout. I have two brothers who are professional artists and I guess I have some of same talent too. <br />
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Web Design is an nice area for the person who is good at a few different areas - design, SEO, content writing, images, sales. <br />
You don't have to be amazing at each but if you have some knowledge of all you are way ahead of most web guys. As I have already said the code is available and is easy edited with some practice. The rest is about sales (for your client) and design which a lot of website companies are terrible at. <br />
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How would you best determine what service to start offering? And how should I approach these business? Just contact them upfront or spend some time creating a good website to display my work ? Now that I have some projects under my belt.
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Approach the biggest person you can find and do a website for free or at a very reduced price. Offer to do it all in advance on your own domain and then they only have to use it (and pay for it) if they like it. I did this myself for a well known athlete. Although I spent 2-3 weeks building a website that actually lost money on I got a lot of jobs out of it and proven I could do a 10 page+ professional website. <br />
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To find suitable people (or companies) look for FB or IG pages with 30,000+ likes that don't have a website. These could be a professional sports person, company, fan club, business, anything in the industry that you are looking to get into. The idea is that when the page is done they will help promote your services and maybe do a few posts about you. <br />
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Once the sites is done, and hopefully they like it, ring up other companies and tell them you just did a site for XXXX. Tell them you are building your portfolio and want to do them a site at "1/2" your usual rate. Do a few like this a then move up to full price (but still cheap) and then increase your full price. <br />
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My first ten jobs looked something like this:<br />
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- Family Member (Free)<br />
- Upwork Job ($100)<br />
- Upwork Job ($150)<br />
- Upwork Job ($120)<br />
- Upwork Job ($130)<br />
- Upwork Job (Didn't get paid - fired client)<br />
- Famous Person (Free)<br />
- Small Company $300<br />
- First real Job ($2000)<br />
- Bigger ($4500)<br />
- Proper Size ($11,500)<br />
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It takes a few months but people only look at your last few jobs so you can increase fast once you get a good base.</div>
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