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Starting a web design agency
SIDE HUSTLEOne of the ways to grow a business is to partner with adjacent businesses. I noticed a few customers asking me if I offered paid ads as a service. I came across another local guy who specialises in ads (he actually recorded a really good video auditing a website I had built for a client, and the...- JayS5
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Starting a web design agency
SIDE HUSTLEI have more time now to share what worked and what didn't. The ads were the thing that finally worked to bring in a steady number of leads each week. Tested many different variations and found a winner. If you're looking for a guide on this, look at markspray's incredible thread that does a...- JayS5
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Starting a web design agency
SIDE HUSTLESo bad news followed by great news. The lead I was talking to for a couple of weeks fell through. After giving me content and saying they were happy to have a new site build, they changed their mind. Moved on, landed my first paid client - this time I took payment upfront before starting after...- JayS5
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How My 19-Year-Old Son Built an $8K Web Design Business in 60 Days
GOLD! WEB DESIGNThis is something I've learned over the past month. I've had several potential clients say yes, and then go silent. Exactly like you said. I'm working on exactly that, continuing to call clients, follow up, and follow up again. Sometimes people just get busy and the website is not an...- JayS5
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Starting a web design agency
SIDE HUSTLEThanks to @markspray's generous guidance, I've been able to get several leads come in over the past couple of weeks. I've been busy calling all of them and 3 of them said yes to working with me. One of them is still in negotiations as he ended up wanting a 40+ page site! I've talked him down to...- JayS5
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Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?
GOLD! HOT! CHATI've restarted ads after the holidays and am working on calling the leads I have so far and honing the sales call process. Continue to make more ads and test out different creatives and copy.- JayS5
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Starting a web design agency
SIDE HUSTLEThat makes sense. I'm thinking part of that is going to be qualifying them in the sales call? Or are you meaning that the ad itself should filter people out? Do you mean using Facebook's audience targeting options? Here's an update with the ads I have been running: While these ads are...- JayS5
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How My 19-Year-Old Son Built an $8K Web Design Business in 60 Days
GOLD! WEB DESIGNYeah I see what you mean. It really depends on how well you can show the value to the customer I imagine. That's the part I haven't worked out yet. But I also suspect my ads are targeting low value customers who operate more on price rather than thinking about the value of the site to their...- JayS5
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Struggling to find pain points
HOT! SAAS / APPSI'm going to focus on your original question in the hopes it might help you or others asking this question. As a dev, if you can build a SaaS and get people to pay for it, problem solved. But this is the reverse of what you need to start a business. This is a Solution In Search of a Problem...- JayS5
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Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?
GOLD! HOT! CHATMy one thing for this week is continuing to call leads and improve my sales process. I will also continue experimenting with my ads to figure out what works and what doesn't. Some of the members have kindly offered to assist me with this, and I couldn't be more grateful. Great to be a part of...- JayS5
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How My 19-Year-Old Son Built an $8K Web Design Business in 60 Days
GOLD! WEB DESIGN@markspray Following your advice has taught me to get leads, and I have some more questions for you! Do you recommend mentioning price in the ad? Do you close deals on the phone or is it important to meet them or do a zoom call? I'm having trouble closing leads at the moment, and I lose them...- JayS5
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Starting a web design agency
SIDE HUSTLEI'm 10 days into running ads for my web dev service. Spent $277, Got 10 leads, 5 calls, 1 text chat, 0 conversions. All prospects expected websites for between $50-200 when I'm aiming to charge a minimum of 1K. Here's what I think is happening: - The ads make it look like a cheap service -...- JayS5
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Starting a web design agency
SIDE HUSTLEThanks to @markspray I ran ads and got 4 leads from close to 1000 impressions, called them and asked the following questions (paraphrased): Questions: What does your business do? (If they didn't mention in the lead form) How are you getting customers right now? What's your main pain point at...- JayS5
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How My 19-Year-Old Son Built an $8K Web Design Business in 60 Days
GOLD! WEB DESIGNThe thread is very much alive @markspray, I just read all your posts and learned an incredible amount. Now time to implement. I'm working on setting up ads and will continue cold calling as well. A couple of websites in the pipeline to finish off too, but they're small jobs so I need to work...- JayS5
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Starting a web design agency
SIDE HUSTLEThanks for the detailed response @markspray! Right, I see what you're saying. I won't give up on cold calling just yet and give it a few more weeks. I've at least gotten over the part where my hands were cold and shaking on the calls! :D I'll add on some ads so I have a line in the water 24/7...- JayS5
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