Chill. The reason you're doing free stuff is to get experience, you got experience.

Why don't you go to Mr Romero's competitor and say this is what I could do for you?

It's only a waste of time if you view it that way.

I do feel you though, sounds frustrating, however you don't know what's going on in the guys life. Business could be failing, wife left him, etc. etc.

You've got a client lined up, go get more, and by the way, good hustle so far, keep it up!

 

I guess that what comes with trying to run/start a business - dealing with clients. In the end once you grow, you will definitely have a choice in the clients you take on. Still better than having someone tell you what to do for the next 40 years.. Congrats on taking action!

 

At the very least, you have a new portfolio piece to show future prospects

 

LMAOOOOOOO

 

Wait.......what? Did y'all miss this?

 

I similarly started off a couple years ago trying to get into web design. After taking all the courses and teaching myself a bunch for a month or two I made one for a pizza place down the road with a terrible website.

It took me a ton of time (and some money) to get it right and get everything looking good. I went and showed them my finished work....and they ignored me without thinking twice about it. Mine blew theirs out of the water.

Stuff happens. Not everyone feels like their business needs a professional website that looks good.

I would stay away from saying things like wanting an entire family to get deported.

 

Not a good idea to be sharing this... some things are better kept private...

 

Sounds like you interpreted Mr. Romero’s response as approval to go forward.

That’s a great lesson to learn. Be excited that you learned the lesson with only losing a handful of hours and not thousands of dollars.

Was he excited about getting your help. Did Mr. Romero invest a good amount of time and possibly money in preparation with you before you started on the design?

Did Mr. Romero sign anything?

I go against the grain I guess but I don’t work for free ever. That doesn’t sound like entrepreneurship at all to me. You can find someone to pay you.

When something is free it isn’t respected.

 

I want to revisit this part, because even though it was called out, it still seems it was glossed over:

So there were red flags telling you not to do the project, he never responded to tell you what features he wanted, you built the website, and when he didn't look at it you blame it on the fact that he's Mexican?

I want that to really sink in for a moment. I'll wait.

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If he wasn't Mexican (are you even sure he is?), would you still want him deported? Your personal views are going to heavily influence the way you run your business, and ultimately its success or failure. I would encourage you to take some time for introspection.

 

lmao non whites hate/blame whites for everything but whites are not even allowed to tell jokes about non whites

 

This thread derailed quickly

My thoughts

1) So you "lost" a week of time. Big deal - be prepared to have let-downs far beyond your wildest imagination. The more you prospect, the more you'll realize that people's wishy-washyness is the default. You have to work real hard to refine your marketing, sales, and offer to the point where you hit at a good rate.

It's all about averages bro. Even if 1% of your prospects turn to paying customers, you can profit if you price correctly.

f*ck Mr. Romero - move on. You already spent too much time on him by making this thread. Just make the next phonecall or email

2) Also don't work that hard - make the home page and explain the benefits and give them a little demo and whatnot. But you should not be spending a "week" on a demo for someone unless it's a huge company and you have the opportunity to make alot of money. I'd spend maybe 2-4 hours designing a presentation or package and then showing them

3) I love me a good joke but they're supposed to be funny. No need to talk about the mans ethnicity. We're here to talk about entrepreneurship - his background is irrelevant

p.s. I put "lost" in quotes because you'll realize that 90% of entrepreneurship is failure and "lost" time

There's no such thing as time lost - only lessons learned

It's necessary learning. You have to go through it - so congrats on your first lesson that neither Mr. Romero nor the world doesn't owe you sh*t

 

This is why emojis are more important than most people care to believe!

 

Lesson learned in feeling out clients. That's part of owning a business. You will have many more extremely frustrating moments like this, and all you can do is ask "what can I do better next time to not repeat this encounter?" and go from there.