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So, after having 2 websites fail (I was getting 100% info seeker traffic, not buyer traffic. Lesson learned) and making some bad decisions with my life and my money, I'm down to $5k net worth :bgh:
I've decided to start a small web development business to pay my bills while I fry bigger fish.
The need: Helping starting musicians "get their name out there" by building basic websites and helping them build a brand (if you can call it that) through social media. I suspect that this is a real need but I'm starting this super cheap project to make sure there are paying customers.
Initial marketing plan:
1) Spend the $5 left on my school print card to print 50 flyers and post them in music departments of colleges in my area. Spend $5 in gas to visit the 4 big colleges within 30 minutes of my house (gotta love California).
2) Phone up music stores and offer them 20% commission to let me post flyers in the store, and let people know about my service (free).
3) Offer a student discount so I can get my service listed on the many student discount sites out there. Win for me and win for them (free).
4) Hit up forums and blogs where the target market resides - in a non-spammy way, of course (free)
Cool resources I've used:
- downloaded a free texting+calling app for my phone that gives me a different phone number. That way, I don't have to put my real phone number on the flyers but still get calls on the same phone.
- Wordpress blog: free with the .wordpress domain. If people start visiting the site or calling, my first step will be to get a real domain name.
- free QR code generator: I've put QR codes on my flyers to see if people actually use them. Scanning the code will take them to my website. The site also provides free tracking.
Again, my primary objective at this point is to see if people will pay what I'm asking (between $100 and $600 depending on the service). If there's no response from college musicians, I might start cold-emailing Youtube folks who have a decent amount of views but a crappy web presence outside of Youtube.
Just thought I'd throw this out there in case some other starving kid was looking for an idea to steal :smxB: Total money invested: $0 so far, will be $10 or so by the end of tomorrow.
Also, speed me please! I've been itching to see what magical wonders are in the private forum :smx4:
Ivan
I've decided to start a small web development business to pay my bills while I fry bigger fish.
The need: Helping starting musicians "get their name out there" by building basic websites and helping them build a brand (if you can call it that) through social media. I suspect that this is a real need but I'm starting this super cheap project to make sure there are paying customers.
Initial marketing plan:
1) Spend the $5 left on my school print card to print 50 flyers and post them in music departments of colleges in my area. Spend $5 in gas to visit the 4 big colleges within 30 minutes of my house (gotta love California).
2) Phone up music stores and offer them 20% commission to let me post flyers in the store, and let people know about my service (free).
3) Offer a student discount so I can get my service listed on the many student discount sites out there. Win for me and win for them (free).
4) Hit up forums and blogs where the target market resides - in a non-spammy way, of course (free)
Cool resources I've used:
- downloaded a free texting+calling app for my phone that gives me a different phone number. That way, I don't have to put my real phone number on the flyers but still get calls on the same phone.
- Wordpress blog: free with the .wordpress domain. If people start visiting the site or calling, my first step will be to get a real domain name.
- free QR code generator: I've put QR codes on my flyers to see if people actually use them. Scanning the code will take them to my website. The site also provides free tracking.
Again, my primary objective at this point is to see if people will pay what I'm asking (between $100 and $600 depending on the service). If there's no response from college musicians, I might start cold-emailing Youtube folks who have a decent amount of views but a crappy web presence outside of Youtube.
Just thought I'd throw this out there in case some other starving kid was looking for an idea to steal :smxB: Total money invested: $0 so far, will be $10 or so by the end of tomorrow.
Also, speed me please! I've been itching to see what magical wonders are in the private forum :smx4:
Ivan
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