To both of you put yourselves in the businesses' mindset: why is listening to your pitch even for 30 seconds worth their time? You've got about 5 seconds to say something to catch their ear (and they have to be in the right mood) before you've made them space out or go into defense.
When I owned my service business I would get SEO/web design pitches weekly and they were always awful at explaining why them out of the 300 I've heard over the years should get my attention.
Might need to quote a case study finding or some recent success. If you don't have one maybe you need to start a personal project to get that win under your belt etc. Or just find someone who is doing none right now (maybe no website at all just a local business) and ask if you can do it for free for them.
(Funny thing is I am actually considering letting someone take a shot at using a new site I am going to launch as a case study for SEO / content building but even in that which would be them doing it for free I would be grilling them on why them? how are they going to do it? etc. because its my reputation and business on the line - you get what I am saying here?)
When I owned my service business I would get SEO/web design pitches weekly and they were always awful at explaining why them out of the 300 I've heard over the years should get my attention.
Might need to quote a case study finding or some recent success. If you don't have one maybe you need to start a personal project to get that win under your belt etc. Or just find someone who is doing none right now (maybe no website at all just a local business) and ask if you can do it for free for them.
(Funny thing is I am actually considering letting someone take a shot at using a new site I am going to launch as a case study for SEO / content building but even in that which would be them doing it for free I would be grilling them on why them? how are they going to do it? etc. because its my reputation and business on the line - you get what I am saying here?)
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