Quick Question On Getting Customers in Web Design

[Fnesse]

Quick question,

How do you get your customers?


What I did was pitch to local FB businesses.

But still no luck,

1 turned down

3 ignored

Haha


Just wanted to know how you got your first customers starting out.

Advice would be greatly appreciated!
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[Fnesse]

*pitched by PM ing their FB biz accounts

 

[inabox1]

How do you get your customers?

One method would be recording a custom Loom video that's 5 minutes long and sending it in a cold email to the decision-maker.

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My process was as follows:

Minute 1: Introduce yourself and say the biz owners first name "Hey Fnesse" + Compliment Website.
Minutes 2-3: State what can be improved: Logo, layout, not responsive, poor SEO. Mention the technicals but most importantly focus on what this is costing them. Most biz owners won't know / care much about how not having a blog can damage SEO, but they will care about their website going to waste and the thousands of potential clients they're missing out on from not having an up to date website.
Minutes 4-5: Quick pitch for my services. Here are the services we provide, here's a case study (If you don't have any previous clients, show a practice website you redesigned), send a reply to this email if you're interested (Create a pitch deck from Canva for this).

With research, recording and writing the cold email, you should be able to average 3-4 Loom videos per hour.

This means 10-20 / day.

100 prospects a week.

Outreach/Meeting Rate might be around 2-4%

You should be able to close at least 1 deal from every 100 of these high quality, personalised cold emails.

100 prospects a week, at least one deal = 1 Client / Week.

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Hope this helps, good luck mate.

Be a tenacious little F*cker.

 

[Makko]

Quick question,

How do you get your customers?


What I did was pitch to local FB businesses.

But still no luck,

1 turned down

3 ignored

Haha


Just wanted to know how you got your first customers starting out.

Advice would be greatly appreciated!
(•‿•)

Do you have any family or friends that have a real business? Starting out from your closest network is the best idea imo.

 

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[Fnesse]

Do you have any family or friends that have a real business? Starting out from your closest network is the best idea imo.

Asked a few,

Will ask more !

 

[Raja]

One method would be recording a custom Loom video that's 5 minutes long and sending it in a cold email to the decision-maker.

Link in cold email.

That's a big no no and easy way to get your email to spam.

Maybe, what op can do is to include CTA of asking for reply to share the audit and how to improve the site

 

[Johnny boy]

I searched for web designers near me. Look at this.

10 pages of results in my area.

Web design is a game of finding customers, basically nothing else.



If I was going to market a web design firm I would do a few things.

1. I would make some craigslist ads and run them to my website which has a form. This helped me get leads that I could call back at any time and it was profitable. A CL ad is $5 and I would post them in every major city in the country. I'd spend like $25 a day in ads and did a few grand a month in sales all WHILE ON VACATION in Thailand for 2 months.

2. I would buy a list of business phone numbers, or use software to scrape the phone numbers for companies in industries likes construction/home services. I would then use the service 'slybroadcast' to send ringless voicemails for $0.06 a delivered message. I would say "Hey my name is Johnny boy and I was having trouble with your website and I wanted to let you know, give me a call" and send it to a google voice number. When they call back on a google voice number I would put them on speaker, check out their company online and start finding reasons why they should hire me to fix their online presence (assuming they didn't already have a perfect online presence already).

Stop wasting your time doing things in such a manual, non-scalable way. You can go dig a hole in the ground and spend all day doing it but nobody will pay you. There are many actions new business owners take that are the equivalent of just digging a hole for no one. Some of you are trying to do it with a spoon too and are really wasting your time. Do not be one of those people.

You simple cannot write enough emails, dial enough phone numbers, knock on enough doors, etc. to compete with how I can reach people. I use facebook ads, ranking results high for organic search, ringless voicemails, etc.

 

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[BizyDad]

1 turned down

3 ignored

Stop quitting after 4 tries...

I searched for web designers near me. Look at this.

10 pages of results in my area.

Web design is a game of finding customers, basically nothing else.

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If I was going to market a web design firm I would do a few things.

1. I would make some craigslist ads and run them to my website which has a form. This helped me get leads that I could call back at any time and it was profitable. A CL ad is $5 and I would post them in every major city in the country. I'd spend like $25 a day in ads and did a few grand a month in sales all WHILE ON VACATION in Thailand for 2 months.

2. I would buy a list of business phone numbers, or use software to scrape the phone numbers for companies in industries likes construction/home services. I would then use the service 'slybroadcast' to send ringless voicemails for $0.06 a delivered message. I would say "Hey my name is Johnny boy and I was having trouble with your website and I wanted to let you know, give me a call" and send it to a google voice number. When they call back on a google voice number I would put them on speaker, check out their company online and start finding reasons why they should hire me to fix their online presence (assuming they didn't already have a perfect online presence already).

Stop wasting your time doing things in such a manual, non-scalable way. You can go dig a hole in the ground and spend all day doing it but nobody will pay you. There are many actions new business owners take that are the equivalent of just digging a hole for no one. Some of you are trying to do it with a spoon too and are really wasting your time. Do not be one of those people.

You simple cannot write enough emails, dial enough phone numbers, knock on enough doors, etc. to compete with how I can reach people. I use facebook ads, ranking results high for organic search, ringless voicemails, etc.

Bravo.

 

[Kevin88660]

Quick question,

How do you get your customers?


What I did was pitch to local FB businesses.

But still no luck,

1 turned down

3 ignored

Haha


Just wanted to know how you got your first customers starting out.

Advice would be greatly appreciated!
(•‿•)

Offer free service. And look for chance to upsell paid service and get referral.

 

[Fnesse]

I searched for web designers near me. Look at this.

10 pages of results in my area.

Web design is a game of finding customers, basically nothing else.

View attachment 39617

If I was going to market a web design firm I would do a few things.

1. I would make some craigslist ads and run them to my website which has a form. This helped me get leads that I could call back at any time and it was profitable. A CL ad is $5 and I would post them in every major city in the country. I'd spend like $25 a day in ads and did a few grand a month in sales all WHILE ON VACATION in Thailand for 2 months.

2. I would buy a list of business phone numbers, or use software to scrape the phone numbers for companies in industries likes construction/home services. I would then use the service 'slybroadcast' to send ringless voicemails for $0.06 a delivered message. I would say "Hey my name is Johnny boy and I was having trouble with your website and I wanted to let you know, give me a call" and send it to a google voice number. When they call back on a google voice number I would put them on speaker, check out their company online and start finding reasons why they should hire me to fix their online presence (assuming they didn't already have a perfect online presence already).

Stop wasting your time doing things in such a manual, non-scalable way. You can go dig a hole in the ground and spend all day doing it but nobody will pay you. There are many actions new business owners take that are the equivalent of just digging a hole for no one. Some of you are trying to do it with a spoon too and are really wasting your time. Do not be one of those people.

You simple cannot write enough emails, dial enough phone numbers, knock on enough doors, etc. to compete with how I can reach people. I use facebook ads, ranking results high for organic search, ringless voicemails, etc.

I searched for web designers near me. Look at this.

10 pages of results in my area.

Web design is a game of finding customers, basically nothing else.

View attachment 39617

If I was going to market a web design firm I would do a few things.

1. I would make some craigslist ads and run them to my website which has a form. This helped me get leads that I could call back at any time and it was profitable. A CL ad is $5 and I would post them in every major city in the country. I'd spend like $25 a day in ads and did a few grand a month in sales all WHILE ON VACATION in Thailand for 2 months.

2. I would buy a list of business phone numbers, or use software to scrape the phone numbers for companies in industries likes construction/home services. I would then use the service 'slybroadcast' to send ringless voicemails for $0.06 a delivered message. I would say "Hey my name is Johnny boy and I was having trouble with your website and I wanted to let you know, give me a call" and send it to a google voice number. When they call back on a google voice number I would put them on speaker, check out their company online and start finding reasons why they should hire me to fix their online presence (assuming they didn't already have a perfect online presence already).

Stop wasting your time doing things in such a manual, non-scalable way. You can go dig a hole in the ground and spend all day doing it but nobody will pay you. There are many actions new business owners take that are the equivalent of just digging a hole for no one. Some of you are trying to do it with a spoon too and are really wasting your time. Do not be one of those people.

You simple cannot write enough emails, dial enough phone numbers, knock on enough doors, etc. to compete with how I can reach people. I use facebook ads, ranking results high for organic search, ringless voicemails, etc.

thank you.


I thought getting customers was just cold calling / emailing in numbers.


Will now learn more about getting customers in scale.


Thanks for the advice,
Won't let it go to waste.

 

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