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How To Stay Super Sharp After A Soul Crushing Job?
MINDSET FTEDefinitely a topic I know too well. Was working at an NYC investment bank with crazy hours / insane culture of people and started learning/planning for how to get out of that and start my own business for probably the last 3-4 months before I quit. I don't know if this is for everyone, but I...- GuitarManDan
- Post #5
- Forum: Mindset and Self-Development
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Moved to Scottsdale, Growing a Web Design Firm
GOLD!Hey Everyone, Wanted to provide a quick update around what's been going on with me: Organic Leads Coming In - I'm starting to get a crazy amount of organic leads coming into my business for web design services specifically. Referrals from past clients and past jobs, networking contacts, in...- GuitarManDan
- Post #123
- Forum: Process and Execution
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Moved to Scottsdale, Growing a Web Design Firm
GOLD!Quick simple update just for tracking purposes. Previous client asked for updates on his site that took around 3-4 hours to do. Charged $300 for that and collected that today. Using this as an opening to pitch SEO services too, he agreed to hear me out about that after we get these updates...- GuitarManDan
- Post #122
- Forum: Process and Execution
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Moved to Scottsdale, Growing a Web Design Firm
GOLD!Hey Everyone, Just seeing all of the replies now, here's my feedback for the recent replies here: @huseyin - Yes for now I've handled everything myself. For some larger projects that I have in the works, I am planning on outsourcing some components (since now I've really learned them and...- GuitarManDan
- Post #121
- Forum: Process and Execution
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Moved to Scottsdale, Growing a Web Design Firm
GOLD!Hey man, Thanks for the kind words - and yep, still just prospects but I'm so close to a huge breakthrough with the monthly contracts. I will be handling everything myself for SEO. Similar to way I did it with web design, I want to become an expert first with SEO before I really outsource (as...- GuitarManDan
- Post #115
- Forum: Process and Execution
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Moved to Scottsdale, Growing a Web Design Firm
GOLD!Hey Everyone, Wanted to share a quick update as we're almost near the end of February. I've spent this month almost entirely building out SEO and monthly recurring revenue client leads reaching out to my network of people that I've built up over the past year or so (past clients, past...- GuitarManDan
- Post #113
- Forum: Process and Execution
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Moved to Scottsdale, Growing a Web Design Firm
GOLD!Hey All, Quick update from my side in terms of where I currently stand as an overview for the business so far: Outstanding Projects: 1. CPA Website Redesign in Scottsdale - probably roughly 90% completed, it's busy tax season and he wanted to edit some of the copy for the site so once I get...- GuitarManDan
- Post #111
- Forum: Process and Execution
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Moved to Scottsdale, Growing a Web Design Firm
GOLD!Hey MJ - that’s actually what I’ve been doing too this year. Trying to think of any business I’m a customer of and that gets me an easier in with the owner. I’ve been reaching out to doctors, dentists, accountants, etc that I was/am a customer of who have awful SEO where I know I can add...- GuitarManDan
- Post #110
- Forum: Process and Execution
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Moved to Scottsdale, Growing a Web Design Firm
GOLD!Thanks! To keep it simple, it's just choosing a niche (like you've already done) and then finding potential clients where you could add value. Honestly, I really am not a fan of cold emailing, I probably sent out 500-600 (from my tracking in 2018) and I closed 1 client (would be 2 if I close...- GuitarManDan
- Post #108
- Forum: Process and Execution
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Digital Marketing Agency, the new Podcasting?
HOT! MARKETINGThanks for the shoutout MJ - haven't had a chance to go through the full post yet but I'll check it out tonight. Based on the response and the title though I can imagine what this is about. I'll be the first to say of course I knew going into this business that it's highly competitive and...- GuitarManDan
- Post #64
- Forum: Marketing Strategy
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Moved to Scottsdale, Growing a Web Design Firm
GOLD!Hey All, In order to hold myself accountable, I want to put down in writing another goal that I was speaking with @Fox about last week as I'm putting all of my efforts into getting monthly recurring revenue SEO clients this year (and will also continue to bring on web design clients as...- GuitarManDan
- Post #105
- Forum: Process and Execution
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Moved to Scottsdale, Growing a Web Design Firm
GOLD!Hey man, The one I went with was pretty pricey but it was highly recommended and even one SEO deal would make the course pay for itself 10x over. If you don't want to break the bank you could look into some starter ones in Udemy. I'd just filter by top rated ones and go with one that isn't...- GuitarManDan
- Post #104
- Forum: Process and Execution
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Moved to Scottsdale, Growing a Web Design Firm
GOLD!Thanks so much MJ! End of Feb will mark a year since I moved out here... it's been quite the amazing experience so far. Not just challenging myself with the business, but taking more chances making lots of great new friends and just making it all work out here starting out from nothing...- GuitarManDan
- Post #102
- Forum: Process and Execution
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Moved to Scottsdale, Growing a Web Design Firm
GOLD!Hey All, A few big proposals that I sent out, mostly in the space of bringing in more monthly recurring revenue, as I discussed in my original goals for 2019: Personal Training Gym SEO Package: Happened to be chatting with the owner of a personal training gym I've been going to by my place...- GuitarManDan
- Post #100
- Forum: Process and Execution
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Moved to Scottsdale, Growing a Web Design Firm
GOLD!Hey All, One more quick update - been a busy day. Just finished up and launched another client site and sent him over the invoice for the remaining 50% of the contract (will be $750 for the final half). Definitely way less than I'd usually accept but it was a very very simple project (3...- GuitarManDan
- Post #98
- Forum: Process and Execution
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Moved to Scottsdale, Growing a Web Design Firm
GOLD!Hey Everyone, A few quick updates since I last posted: 1. Did some follow up work for the fashion designer client. They asked how much my hourly rate was so I had to do some research and speak to some experts in this space. I ended up charging $90 / hour (which seemed crazy to me originally...- GuitarManDan
- Post #97
- Forum: Process and Execution
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Moved to Scottsdale, Growing a Web Design Firm
GOLD!Another quick update - the fashion designer's website is all finished and I just cashed the remaining 50% ($2,250) check into the business account. Not sure how to track that for my 2019 $100k challenge but I figure if it's income I'm reporting for this year and the work was done this year...- GuitarManDan
- Post #96
- Forum: Process and Execution
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Moved to Scottsdale, Growing a Web Design Firm
GOLD!Hey man, Completely agreed, this was just one of the highlights I wanted to share haha I've been tracking all of the prospects in my CRM and have been speaking with multiple businesses. Definitely don't want to expose myself to that kinda risk where I hold out for one big deal!- GuitarManDan
- Post #95
- Forum: Process and Execution
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Moved to Scottsdale, Growing a Web Design Firm
GOLD!Hey All, Here's a quick update of what's going on so far in 2019: Being Persistent with a Potential Huge Deal: Last summer at a networking event I had a conversation with a manager of a commercial real estate firm (10-20 employees) that's looking to completely redo their site. This would...- GuitarManDan
- Post #93
- Forum: Process and Execution
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How to Learn Code, Start a Web Company, $15k+ per month within 9 months
GOLD! SIDE HUSTLEHey Rob and Everyone, I still have a long way to go and don’t want to make it seem like I’ve “made it” but with no previous web design or coding experience I used Fox’s courses to start my business in Jan 2018. My best month was in Sept I closed $12k of business. Switching up my business...- GuitarManDan
- Post #1,274
- Forum: Side Hustles, Freelancing, Web Design
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