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UPDATE: I got 2 new clients to do a website for. 500$ each.
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Free registration at the forum removes this block.Where there's a will there's a way.I have read it, yup. But as I am not based in US I have no way to cold call people from US and emailing them doesn't work(Sent about 100+, 0 responses)
I have read and listened to some of your content, but as there is SO MUCH of it(tnx btw), I haven't gotten around to all of it yet.
I didn't call ANYONE... I was afraid of something. For 3 hours I sat there and looked at the dialed number and just couldn't do it. I don't know what the fu*k happened..
I'll try again tomorrow
On a better note, I just got my first 4 figure job(CCA 1000$ might be even more), via email. So there's a plus and a minus to today
Both USWell done. US? UK?
UPDATE: I realized that there is more to selling over the phone then just "wanna buy a website"(not literally) so I took my time to learn about cold calling and using scripts etc.
Not I have a script for gatekeeper, for decision maker, for the meeting(I won't be reading every word of it, it is just to guide me)
List of 29 potential companies that I will call
A way to call
There is nothing left to do except to pick up the phone and call those 29 companies tomorrow.
I would say wish me luck but I don't really like luck.
We got this man!Man that pumped me up, 10K is my goal as well.
The less help you receive from outsiders, the better you'll feel when you have that sweet 10K in your hands because you earned it.
So saying that, go get that 10K, I'm cheering for you (after I get first place of course )!
Thats awesome! Good luck with your kid!Man you can do it!
I was shooting for 10K in 12 Months because I work full time and have a new kid. I made that goal in 6 Months. Keep plugging along!
I'm in the t-shirt business so if you need any tips let me know. I've tried Teespring and was mildly successful but it's a really tough gig. Can be done though.
Find your groove and go!
I have read it, yup. But as I am not based in US I haven't yet found a way to get new customers out there.Have you checked out the Gold "Starting a web agency" thread by @Fox ?
If you're already making money at web design, then why not "grow what you know" rather than try to get another idea off the ground?
Maybe the interviews and chats I've done that are up on Soundcloudmight help too. They're long, but they might help because I'm chatting with guys who have some success as employees or freelancers and who are on their own journeys. For the minute, they're listed here.
That was a good call, but I meant the back half of this call:Let me edit that answer to the one with no excuses. When I wrote that I was like "rly dude you have NO way?".. Not the right mindset to have.
Are you refering to this https://soundcloud.com/andy-black-605183154/growing-a-local-lead-gen-business
Well done. US? UK?UPDATE: I got 2 new clients to do a website for. 500$ each.
This is just a test run. Something to start with.You need more companies to call, you should call 200-500 min...
Excuse my ignorance but is $6,000 USD the minimum wage salary?
Excuse my ignorance but is $6,000 USD the minimum wage salary?
Yeah, I meant is 6k USD the average salary for croatia. Very interesting, good luck!I am not sure for the US. There I was referring to Croatia and a yearly income of 6000 USD which is around 42208 Croatian Kunas. Making the monthly minimum wage of 3500 Croatian Kunas(It's a bit less actually) which would account for around 500 USD.
Of course, the living standard is not the same but still, its VERY little money.
I think you'll easily reach your goal. With the $5k you have now you can do alot more damage then at the beginning.Haven't posted an update so here we go.
I gave this "venture" of mine a real thought and realized that if I want to go anywhere with this I shouldn't do this alone. I know I posted before this that I will do the sales myself, but it will be faster and a lot more efficient if I hire someone with real experience to do it. And, It allows it to grow a lot more than with just a one man team.
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In the past two months, I have made calls, made sales, but haven't finished anything because for some reason people like to drag the simplest things to infinity and some just bailed on me. Just one of the reasons I want to work with "bigger" clients. If I finished every project that I had right now I would be at 50% of my goal(5k). If. Yeah.
In 3 months It will be a year since I started this "web design" thing and I want to end year one with some bigger numbers. One month after that is the initial goal set with this thread and I KNOW that it will be checked off as a done goal of mine.
Knowing that, I want to put myself in a position to grow. So as mentioned above I got a sales guy.
He is a guy I know trough my brother and has been working in a call center for Deutsche Telekom. Technically he wasn't a sales guy there but they had to pitch products to people that called and he HAS experience, a lot more than I do. And something I learned is that you shouldn't do everything yourself, especially if you want to grow.
Based on fox's models of finding clients(Google the business type and city name and click trough the results, find bad websites, call them up) I found a LOT more effective way of doing it. In fact, I am quite sure that as long as I will be doing web design, my current sales guy, and future ones should run out of numbers to call. In maybe 8 hours of doing this I have found around 350 numbers.
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So what now?
I gave my sales guy SLP from Belfort to watch, we compiled a script (new one, based on Belfort's script) and on Monday he is starting. I will supply him with numbers and design the websites and he will call.
Let's see how this goes.
Let me edit that answer to the one with no excuses. When I wrote that I was like "rly dude you have NO way?".. Not the right mindset to have.Where there's a will there's a way.
If you want to sell websites in the US/UK etc, then "just" find a way. (I know that's easier than it sounds, but who wants easy eh?)
Also, don't neglect what's right under your nose. Myself and Nico talk about that quite a bit in our call (probably the second half of the call).
Yeah... I churn out a lot of content. I don't want to turn people into consumers, but for the moment, just recording conversations I'd have anyway seems to help people. Maybe later I'll get round to editing them and making them shorter, except building my own business is my priority.
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