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Recent content by Richard Gao

  1. Richard Gao

    Starting a web design business in high school

    EXECUTION 
    UPDATE 10 Many crucial things have happened. I got another client on the hook and 3 more lined up. The Alberta dude has some large demands for his website, he insisted on making it look worse, but as of now, only small changes are being made. I still have a long ways to go with him, but his...
  2. Richard Gao

    Starting a web design business in high school

    EXECUTION 
    UPDATE 9 I was quite surprised, but I got my second sale. I sent an email to a general auto shop in Alberta and got an interested reply back. They didn't respond to my other emails, so I called them. I had a chat with them, asked them some questions and it was an easy close for $300. I have...
  3. Richard Gao

    Starting a web design business in high school

    EXECUTION 
    UPDATE 8 I really have to thank @Real Deal Denver for his posts. The past few week I've stopped the random cold calling and decided to write 3 very targeted emails per day, as well as a few blog posts on my site. I have gotten 2 very interested responses. Given, there was no response when I...
  4. Richard Gao

    Starting a web design business in high school

    EXECUTION 
    I didn't want to spread myself out too thin, so I'm only focusing on cold email and calls as of now to acquire customers, but it looks like I need to do more research into SEO.
  5. Richard Gao

    Starting a web design business in high school

    EXECUTION 
    Thanks, lots of value here! Just a question though, when you mean cold calling and emailing is useless and mention to throw out 20 landing pages, what do you mean? SEO?
  6. Richard Gao

    Starting a web design business in high school

    EXECUTION 
    Indeed, I have some scripts in front of me for the objections, but I always forget to use them lol. It's not a big issue though, after thanksgiving weekend I'm going to do a re-call for many of my prospects that either said maybe or call back, so far I've only called 1 prospect back in all of...
  7. Richard Gao

    Starting a web design business in high school

    EXECUTION 
    UPDATE 7: Since I'm busy with school, I've cut down a lot on the cold calls, about 20-30 per week are being done. I've also started to notice that I've been getting more people interested in hearing what I have to say with this line: "Hey I'm Richard from (business), I'm working with auto...
  8. Richard Gao

    Starting a web design business in high school

    EXECUTION 
    UPDATE 6: It's been quite a while since my last post, so here is update 6. Things haven't been changing much lately, my old potential client still hasn't responded, however, I've called and his employee says he will call me and will email me, but none of those has happened. I will leave a...
  9. Richard Gao

    Starting a web design business in high school

    EXECUTION 
    UPDATE 5: Since we had Labour Day this week I couldn't send out any calls, so there was not much to update, but not much has changed, I've somewhat maintained my 40/day call consistency since school started. I had one call where I tried to set up an appointment and it worked quite well. I just...
  10. Richard Gao

    Starting a web design business in high school

    EXECUTION 
    UPDATE 4: I just got my first client! I was so surprised, it was not from one of my cold calls, but from one of my cold emails where I sent them a homepage mockup. It was a local auto shop and apparently the guy has called me many times, but I never received his calls, so he emailed me and we...
  11. Richard Gao

    Under 18, know web design but can't get a contract because of age. Any advice?

    SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    UPDATE 4: I just got my first client! I was so surprised, it was not from one of my cold calls, but from one of my cold emails where I sent them a homepage mockup. It was a local auto shop and apparently the guy has called me many times, but I never received his calls, so he emailed me and we...
  12. Richard Gao

    Starting a web design business in high school

    EXECUTION 
    Hey guys, I'm a 16 year old in Canada and I've just started a web design business. My updates were originally posted here. But the thread didn't quite fit the content, so I'll repost the posts I already had up there and continue my updates from here. Here are my updates on progress so far...
  13. Richard Gao

    Under 18, know web design but can't get a contract because of age. Any advice?

    SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    UPDATE 3 So it's been 3 days since I've upped my cold calls from 20, to 40 a day. It's still summer so I have time off school to cold call. So far I've gotten 3 people that were not only interested enough to check my website out, but warm enough to give me their personal email. I followed up...
  14. Richard Gao

    Under 18, know web design but can't get a contract because of age. Any advice?

    SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    I agree, my first emails were terrible, I have since refined them, and I'll only email them once I get their personal email from the phone now. Also, most of the, dont use an "info@company.ca" they're pretty dated, so they don't bother to do anything online.
  15. Richard Gao

    Under 18, know web design but can't get a contract because of age. Any advice?

    SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    UPDATE 2 The couple of days after my first update I got into cold calling my web design prospects, I realized the cold email wasn't going to cut it and stopped being lazy. I did 5 cold calls the first day and got rejected. Then upped my number to 20 cold calls and got 2 potential clients who...
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