welcome back to the channel party people
my name is daryl wilson and today in
this video we'll be walking you guys
through a complete marketing guide to
marketing your web design business now
let's be honest here you know starting
the web design business is the easy part
right
but finding clients can be challenging
so we've created key ways and great
strategies on how to find clients for
your web design business now for every
marketing technique i show you guys i'm
going to give you guys real life
examples and websites where other web
design companies are already marketing
their web design business so this will
really help give you that boost to get
more exposure and to get more clients
all right so i've created a bunch of
slides here and we're going to go
through each one and explain how they
work now
the first one obviously just tell your
family and friends this is the most
basic one of them all but it really does
help because you never know this can
give you one client and then that one
client can refer you to others now the
number one way to get more clients in
this industry is by referrals i'm
telling you guys right now it beats seo
it beats facebook it meets everything
referrals are the number one way to get
more clients so start with your family
and friends just say hey guys you know i
got a web design business uh you know if
someone asks send them my way and that's
all you have to do and maybe down the
road your brother or your sister or your
gaming buddies whoever they'll say oh
yeah my my friend does that you know and
there you go you just got a client just
because you briefly mentioned it to one
of your family or friends so number one
tell your family or friends number two
seo for brand name now make sure your
company can be found let me give you
guys an example all right here we go so
for example if i type in daryl wilson
you're gonna see that my website is at
the top of the search now other keywords
like wordpress tutorials web design
tutorials that's very competitive right
so you just want to make sure that
people can actively find your business
if someone starts to talk about it
here's an example right here
you know i typed in this one website
from las vegas 702 pros and you can see
right here how they are at the top of
the list now if we type in like
something like web design marketing you
know they're not going to show up as
number one right it's a very competitive
keyword but i will give you alternatives
to be found if someone types that in a
little bit later so make sure to keep
watching but uh when when you are
starting your web design business you
just want to make sure that your company
name is found that is the most important
part right now you might be asking
yourself well how do i get started with
all this like how do i who do i go to
right well there's various companies and
places you guys can go to first one is
something like upwork right you guys can
you know reach out to an seo company on
upwork and just tell them saying hey you
know i want to be able to get found on
google how can we do this and they'll
probably charge you around maybe two to
four hundred dollars a month just
depending on how aggressive you want to
get you know for seo but just tell them
you know start off small just so you
know two three hundred dollars a month
and i just want to make sure my company
is found i also do want to compete for
other keywords like you know web design
in las vegas or
good web design companies in reno or
whatever you know but uh the main focus
is for your company to be found another
really good seo company that i found was
seo reseller seo reseller they actually
offer some pretty good packages and you
can actually use this also to white
label for your clients so let's say down
the road you guys use
you know seo reseller and then you want
to outsource it to your other clients
this website specializes in that so this
kind of gives you another way to make
recurring revenue and it gives you a lot
of really good analytics like you know
traffic sources
the backlinks do you have any malware
you know how fast is your websites a lot
of crucial information that you need for
um seo
and uh over here they do have a few
plans right so they have the starter the
agency and the enterprise now if you
guys are just getting started on the web
design i would go with something like
agency right just spend like maybe
100 to 200 a month on seo these
companies they'll try to rank you for
specific keywords like best web design
or web designer in so and so and also uh
your name of the company which is the
most important
you guys can go ahead and look on your
own but seo reseller they really do have
some good reviews and they're actually
pretty cheap and you can also outsource
it for your clients as well so you can
be a customer and then you can also
market it to other users as well if you
guys do need more help they do actually
have a sales person you guys can talk to
and just tell them what i'm telling you
just say hey you know i'm starting a web
design business i want to be found on
google uh you know how do i get started
with all this but just don't let them
oversell you okay you don't need to
spend 500 extra month
that can be a little bit expensive and
there's other ways to spend your money
uh in my opinion so yeah make sure to
start your seo campaign all right so now
that we talked about seo let's talk
about content marketing now content
marketing is the best free alternative
for marketing your web design business
so content marketing start creating blog
posts and content for business owners
like how to form an llc or how to start
your business now you might be asking
yourself why are we going to write about
forming an llc darrell we're a web
design company like what are you talking
about you stupid no the reason why we're
talking about these topics is because we
are targeting business owners right
we're not targeting other web designers
so someone starting a business we'll
need a new website right but they will
also
need a uh you know how to form an llc
they might need to create a logo right
let me give you guys an example of
another web design company that's
creating blog posts uh sort of to what
we're talking about here so here we go
we have the top logo design trends for
2022 and as you guys can see this
company has
uh they've created content about the
history of logos and
negative spacing and funky fonts and all
sorts of different
uh subjects that relate to logos now i
do like this because they're helping the
business owner get inspiration and ideas
and as a business owner if i find this
website helpful and saying hey you know
this blog post really helped me you know
what does this website do and then oh
wow they're a web design company okay
sure i'll just go ahead and buy one of
their services which is what this
company is uh aiming for and uh what
people really do if you trust someone or
you like the way the website offers or
service you're more inclined to go with
that company so when you are making
content for websites
i'm sorry for your for your website just
make sure that you appeal to new
business owners all right so we went
ahead and we talked about seo telling
your friends and content marketing let's
go ahead and go to the next slide here
all right google my business this helps
when people search for web design
business in your area like web designers
near me now this i believe is the number
one best hack for seo no matter what let
me explain why so here we go i just
typed in web designers near me right and
right here we have this advertisement
where this person probably paid like i
don't know five dollars right this guy
probably paid four dollars this guy paid
you know maybe three or five dollars and
then here we have a list of these other
companies but before we talk about these
companies let me scroll down right here
now these companies right here probably
spent hundreds of thousands of dollars
on seo they probably spent big bucks on
seo they're probably corporate companies
with very massive budgets that you
cannot compete with sorry guys you guys
can't compete with the big guys these
guys have massive budgets you know and
uh that's just that's just the industry
however if you submitted your website on
google my business guess what happens
you're given that extra chance you're
giving that boost so now you'll see that
you have all these small timers right
these are small time
web designer companies and you can see
that uh they're boosted before
these other companies with massive seo
budgets so for example if i live next to
this guy i'll say you know what uh cool
this guy is right next to me let me go
ahead and click on his website and i'll
see what he has to offer so by adding
your website to google my business it
boosts you to the top of the search and
it also shows people in your area that
you're like a web designer so
i do like this approach and i think that
if you are a
in the business of web design you must
add your website to google my places
because this right here is like maximum
exposure it really helps you get local
clients and then remember those local
clients can tell other people about your
service if they liked your service so
make sure to do a good job all right so
now we went through google my business
now let's talk about yelp business this
helps you get more exposure back links
and shows reviews about your business
ooh this one's great let me show you
guys a little bit about yelp this is
yelp.com and here i just typed in
something like best web designers in las
vegas right something very generic now
instead of actually going to seo and
competing for this keyword which can be
very competitive and very expensive why
not just joins yelp directory where if
someone types this in you'll be listed
for free right that makes a lot more
sense than trying to compete with yelp
itself right so here we go you know we
have some companies with uh some reviews
that shows the location it even shows
response time oh so think about that the
faster you are to respond to people you
get the little green little check mark
of the green little 50 minutes you know
and you can request a consultation
request a quote i really do like this
and this is a great way on how to get
more exposure for your web design
business because people can see the
location of your business yet they can
also see what other people are talking
about and reviewing about your business
now in case you guys think well yale
probably gets no views and no visits
darryl you know it's that's old school
no no no no it's out of school let me
show you guys this is yelp.com yup.com
gets around
120 million visits a month right so in
november they had 118 million uh
december they had 128 million and in
january we had a 100 or they had 126
million
visits so these directory websites are
far from dead i've i've seen blogs argue
that but i'm just like what are you
stupid look at these numbers like how
would you argue with these numbers you
know so um
i recommend putting your website on
these websites and earlier we did talk
about seo and i feel like trying to get
keywords like best web design services
can be very competitive but if you don't
have the budget for it no problem you
guys can submit your website to yelp
where if someone types that in you'll be
found so make sure to submit your
websites to yelp and other directory
websites now one tip of advice as well
when you are submitting your information
to these websites please please fill out
everything possible i know you guys are
going to stumble across like 20 you know
go to 20 directory websites and you're
just going to try to fill it up as fast
as you can
take your time okay so put in your logo
right give some great description about
your business put in photos put in put
in as many photos as you can i don't
care it's free you know it doesn't cost
you anything and it's just opportunity
for you to get more clients
fill out all the services offered make
sure to verify it right
go through the description talk about
the business
um you know here
anything where they ask you to put
information put it in as much as
possible because the more you put it in
yelp will actually boost you up in the
search because they're finding that your
content is more relevant and has more
information to help users so make sure
that you put in everything possible
and uh yeah once you guys do that
you guys will be on your way so yeah
make sure to add your websites to yelp
business all right so we talked about
yelp business right now let's go to
directory website so this helps you get
found by more visitors and establishes
your brand and business let me go and
give you guys some examples and explain
how these affect social signals this is
a directory website it's called
clutch.co and this website is like a
directory of web design companies in
specific regions and you guys can see
that they have the price they have we
know what they charge the staff
they have like their focus so are they
good for design are they good for coding
you know whatever and then they also
have some general description we have a
profile and you can contact and also
visit the website now adding your
website on as many directory websites is
very helpful because what this does that
this sends social signals to google this
basically adds backlinks to all these
different websites and it tells google
that your website's up and coming and
that you're participating with all these
websites so if you add a bunch of
backlinks on these directory websites
your own website will start to get
higher and boost up in the search engine
so that's another reason on why you'd
want to use these directory websites now
again when you guys are using these
directory websites fill out as much
information as possible the more
information the better because these
director websites just like yelp if you
added a bunch of information they
believe that it's very helpful and this
will help boost your website up in these
directory websites now this is just one
right and
i actually have this other article here
from search engine journal and they do
also have
emilia wilson wrote it we have the same
last name how cool is that
so they also have 21 different websites
where you guys can list your website on
these directory websites
and i know many people haven't really
heard of these websites but these do get
like hundreds of thousands of visits
maybe even millions and people really do
use these websites on a regular basis so
i'll go ahead and leave this article in
the description below uh they do have
quite a bit of businesses here where you
know bing places
yahoo places
yelp they have hot frog foursquare like
i said just put your website on all
these websites it will take a lot of
time guys it's a very tedious task but
once it's done it's done right you're
gonna get the traffic people will start
calling you and business will start to
come another tip on to find director
websites in your area is just by going
to google and typing in something like
top 10 best web designers or top 10 best
web design companies when you do this
majority of the time you're going to
find a lot of directory websites for
example i just type that in right and i
scroll down here we have clutch.co we
also have designrush.com we have
creative block
we also have
we have a bunch of directory websites
you know and you guys can reach out to
these companies
sign up and then saying hey you know um
we see that you guys have this list uh
we're gonna go ahead and add ourselves
on your directory and that helps them
and it also helps you so if you guys are
you know having trouble finding
directory websites this right here is a
great strategy all right cool so we've
finished number six now before i go on
any further make sure to like this video
and let me know in the comments if you
guys have actually tried any of these
strategies and just let me know how it
went you know did you guys get a million
dollar client who knows you know like
you never know what's gonna happen just
just do it just do it like nike says
just do it all right here we go
all right neighborhood councils and
chambers of commerce many people don't
even know this stuff exists it's crazy
let me read this through you guys ask
these organizations for referrals and
networks with small business owners this
helps get the word out about your
business many people don't mind helping
out people in the community so let me go
ahead and give you guys an example this
is santa clarita chamber of commerce
this is where i used to live and i will
you know probably move back there in the
future i love santa clarita i mean i've
i grew up there it's it's like my home
you know i love this place but people
don't know that every city that you live
in they do have their own special
chamber of commerce and these businesses
are designed strictly to help out the
community right so let's say for example
you live in santa clarita right all
right so you live in santa clarita and
you're starting a web design business
right how can this city help you well
let's find out over here we have a
directory
all right so this is the chamber of
commerce website for santa clarita and
look at this
they have listed a bunch of businesses
right so we have all these different
businesses hr consulting advanced auto
parts aa companies i mean we have up to
45 pages and someone in the community
probably wants to work with people also
in the community i know you might see
this and saying well i wouldn't use this
i wouldn't search for you know companies
but a lot of people do i mean if i lived
in a city i kind of want to work with
people in my city right so we can help
out the community and you know keep the
economy going in our town you know but
uh no matter what city that you guys go
to make sure to uh look up a chamber of
commerce i believe these are also do
follow backlinks so this will also help
you guys with some seo right because
once google finds out that a major
you know gov website is linking back to
your site then you know that could help
with domain authority so make sure to go
ahead and go to the chamber of commerce
in your city i'm sure uh if you just do
a quick google search you'll find your
city and also the chamber of commerce
for your city all right next number
eight attend meetups and camps that
relates to owning a business and web
design
all right so here we go so we have some
business meetups and you can go ahead
and attend these meetings and then just
you know ask them oh do you need a new
website and you'll be so surprised a lot
of these people they own businesses and
their websites are like terrible like
it's it's it's a shame you know and a
lot of them they're just like yeah man i
work with this designer and he screwed
me over you're going to come across that
a lot where these other guys you know
web designers they abandon the project
that happens quite a bit
but um you can go ahead and attend these
meetups and gain new clients for your
web design business all right so we went
ahead and talked about number eight
let's go to number nine and ten so
number nine add all social networking
profiles to your websites i should have
put that in there to your website so
create a facebook page
credit twitter
linkedin you know i see i don't know if
tiktok applies to web design i'm like
that's debatable i don't think it does
but i i can't deny it because it's the
number one like app in america i don't
use tick tock i know these kids do but i
i don't use it so
if you guys do use tik tok and you feel
like it might help your business yeah
sure you know make a web design tick
tock profile
also dribble bahants and stuff like that
now when you are managing your facebook
page or your twitter make sure to post
regularly and you might be thinking well
no one's liking it or no one's
commenting it doesn't matter the reason
why you want to establish these profiles
is to show that you're in business and
that you have some sort of uh like a
life you know that like oh this
company's active right because if you go
to a facebook page and no one's posting
nothing for two years you're gonna think
they're out of business so you won't
even go to their website but if you see
a facebook page or twitter or linkedin
that's posting regularly once a week
you're gonna say oh they are in business
okay let me let me go ahead and check
them out now let me give you guys an
example of a facebook page that i made
all right so here is my web design
company and you can see that we have
this banner at the top
we have this image now make sure again
like i talked about earlier fill in as
much information as possible okay so add
in your banner uh you know your title
add in your description your about us
your phone number anything that allows
you to put in more information about
your company put it in right
so right here we have you know a post
right and this is actually an
advertisement now right now i'm actually
experimenting with facebook
facebook ads specifically for web
designers and right now abs put testing
stuff so i'll follow this video up with
a facebook ads tutorial for web
designers only and i'll walk you guys
through on which one works the best and
which one you know they don't work but
here you guys can see that i am running
campaigns
and uh people are clicking my ads you
know a lot of people they're they're
engaging in my posts in fact let me go
ahead and just view the results here and
just show you guys really quick
so
this one reached around 11 000 people
you know we got 100 website clicks i
actually did get some emails from users
who were asking me about my business and
they found my website because i linked
darrylwilson.com
and they're like wait a minute you're a
youtuber and a web designer in las vegas
like who are you you know can you build
me a website and that's kind of how
these people found me and over here i do
have insights on the campaigns that i
ran so you guys can see that
my campaigns are reaching a lot of
people and this is kind of spreading the
word right right now they might not buy
my service because maybe right now they
don't need my service however if they
see my website in the long term they're
gonna say you know there's that one
company i saw let me go ahead and give
them a try and you guys can see that i
am getting a lot of new facebook page
visits and here you'll see that these
are just passive searches so people are
just visiting my page just how to random
now just because i advertised
and you know we do have a lot of
impressions you know a lot of people are
finding our company and the word is
getting out about our company so
i'll leave you know i'll be making
another video on facebook ads a little
bit later
but i just want to let you guys know
that creating a page and establishing
that uh live presence and that social
proof is very important to get new
clients for your web design business all
right now let's go to number 10 ask for
referrals guys don't be shy don't be
scared no one likes a person who's shy
and scared and they can't talk you know
just just ask them don't be scared ask
your current client if they know anyone
that needs a website
people are 80 percent more likely to buy
a website from someone that they know
trust or versus someone that they do not
so what does that mean that means if i
just ask some random stranger on the
streets saying hey do you have a web
designer and they recommend one to me
i'd be like yeah whatever however if it
was my sister or my cousin or my brother
and i asked them and they recommended
some a company to me i would be 80 more
likely to go with that person versus a
stranger
feel free to ask for referrals you know
just say hey you know like we're we're
getting started out you know we're a
good web design company and we're trying
to get the name out and we're we're
building momentum and we really need
your help you know and we offered you
guys a great service and i really hope
you're happy and
if you guys can can you guys please uh
you know refer us to someone else who
needs a website really help us out or
what you guys can do is put the website
at the bottom of the footer of the
website you created so if you guys do
build a website you know just ask them
saying hey can we put our website at the
bottom so if someone likes your website
they find our website they'll click on
it and then they'll go to our page and
then maybe we can do business with them
just ask them it never hurts to ask i
find a lot of web designers are too
chicken to ask
clients for this which doesn't make any
sense to me just just do it like like
nike said just do it here we go now we
got these other ways
tutorials playsets and google my maps so
i get a lot of people asking me to build
websites for them why are they asking me
to build websites for them because they
found my tutorials on youtube if people
find your tutorials very helpful they
gain your trust and i have a lot of
people's trust because they watch my
tutorials and they say hey this quality
is you know the content's great you know
can you build a website for me
unfortunately i have a full-time job
here on youtube and i can't do that but
if you are you know just getting started
out just create some small tutorials let
me go and give you guys an example
really quick so here we have a weber
right and weber created this little
video on how to create a custom thank
you page you can make other videos you
know how to do this how to do that you
know and try to try to gear it for
business owners or people who are
looking for a website this always helps
gain that trust from visitors who are
looking for a web design business all
right and next we have places and what
is place it let me show you guys what
place it is so place it is a new website
created by envato and i feel like this
is like the all-in-one solution these
guys make logos they make mock-ups they
make videos they make everything that
you can possibly need for marketing
material for your web design business
and they have some really cool stuff you
know besides the templates and their
advertisements and their logo makers
they also do have like these videos
where
you can actually put your company on
these uh like coffee cups or sweatshirts
or whatever
so you see here how we kind of hover
over it and it turns into the company
let's see here wait wait wait come on
wait come on okay that's not working but
this girl does see how it says hi right
there
there we go so maybe they gotta fix that
who knows and then also here we have
like these two girls and you know
they're wearing logos from other
companies i really do like that and what
that does that that creates like social
proof if you have a bunch of like people
wearing your shirts saying oh like this
is so cool this company's great people
are gonna go oh man like if they're
liking that company you know i'll
probably like it and here we go we have
this uh this looks like an advertisement
40 off all orders i do like this this
looks like a
a instagram ad or something like that
right i don't know
here we go we have two hoodies
all right and we got this gamer
yeah look at that man you know so the
sky's the limit you know you guys can
have like a lot of different marketing
materials so they have mock-ups
uh prints print on demand digital stuff
apparel we have designs right they have
uh business cards book covers gaming you
name it you know they also have music as
well
and if you guys do need a free logo oh
this company has amazing free logo
makers i highly recommend check it out
they also do have videos they have this
new express video maker now i can't go
through everything on this website
because this video can easily get
another 20 30 minutes long so i just
recommend to go to this website and
check it out i'll leave a link below to
check it out i don't have a coupon code
for it yet it is a paid website
unfortunately it is like a 12 a month
but for what they give you i mean it's
really hard to beat it yeah it's really
hard to beat it they also do have free
templates look at that i just found that
go to the bottom and get the free stuff
all right so make sure to check out
places.net all right so we're back on
our slides here now the next one add
location on google maps and apple maps
now the reason why you do this is this
helps users find your business on their
phones in case they want directions or
want to find web design businesses near
them so where's my phone do i have my
phone all right
yeah so here's my phone right
and sometimes when you're using your
phone you might go to google maps right
or google my places or apple maps or
whatever and
sometimes you're searching for something
right if you want to be found on your
mobile i would highly recommend to add
your websites to
apple maps and also google maps as well
and uh yeah i mean that will just really
help you guys get more exposure it also
shows your location next to other
businesses so let's say like someone's
at a pizza shop and then they click on
the pizza shop and your website company
is next to the pizza shop your business
will display next to it so it just shows
you on the map just so you're visible
and stuff like that so i highly
recommend to add your websites to google
my business and apple maps let me go and
give you guys one more example here just
over here just to give you guys an
example
if you guys do add it you'll appear like
something like this right you'll appear
like on like on the map so you're
visible and people can find you and this
is just another way to make more money
all right so we are cruising here so you
guys are now like kind of understanding
different marketing techniques and
you're finding out different strategies
so let's keep digging the next one
answer questions on quora if you see
questions asking about good web design
services answer them feel free to ask
your own questions about your own web
design business to start the
conversation so let's say for example we
go to quora and here we go there's a lot
of questions about web design right what
is web design who are the best web
designers under 25 how can i learn web
design whatever you guys can go ahead
and go to these questions and you can
answer them with your own company and
give a back link to your company so for
example i'll just go to this one best
web designers under 25 i mean
people are asking these questions right
and here you can go ahead and answer
this question and then you can kind of
give them a link back to your web design
business now a lot of companies do this
i have seen many people ask questions
about their own business like oh what
can we do to improve our service or what
do you think about this or what do you
think about that it just starts the
conversation so people can answer it and
helps people find your website all right
next we have create accounts on yellow
pages up city thumbtack and other
directory websites like we talked about
earlier
this is just again going back to
directory websites just link your
websites to other various directory
websites go to all these websites put in
as much information as you can there's
like hundreds of directory websites i
left you guys that article where it
shows you guys a few directory websites
so remember that article is in the
description just take the time and go
through the process of filling out all
the information i know it can be time
consuming and you don't have to do it in
one day okay you don't have to do it all
one day just make sure it looks good and
that you have a lot of information on
those profiles let's go ahead and keep
going here keep pushing forwards and
facebook groups this is a good one i get
a lot of these guys in my group and let
me explain to you
how not to get banned okay but first
feel free to answer questions and ask
questions about your business don't go
into groups and start spamming about
your company i have i have banned guys
that you know hey guys check out my
fiverr gig five dollar website you know
or hey guys go to my upwork profile
you're going to get banned if you do
that
however if someone asks a question about
web design or they need help then you
can say yeah blah blah blah blah we're
going to help you here blah blah blah
blah here's also my website if you want
to check it out you know a lot of people
in my facebook group they actually do
ask for help with their websites i'm not
saying to go my group and spam i'm just
saying that like you know other facebook
groups uh they do ask questions like hey
do you know this good designer uh blah
blah blah blah
also what i've noticed too is that uh
you do have web design companies who are
new and they're really not good at
design and they ask you know they ask
people is this a good page and someone
might say no this is my website and then
that person might see that other
designer and say you know what's can we
work together you know can we have like
a like referral system here because
you're obviously a better designer than
me and yeah so
just asking questions or
if people do ask for help you know you
can help them but do not go into groups
and start spamming your company uh
you're gonna get banned it's it's just
gonna happen all right so just don't do
it just don't do it uh also forums
i mean forums are still a big thing you
know there are forums but if you do find
forums you know answer questions but do
not spam okay you do that you're gonna
get banned trust me and the moderators
they know what you're doing okay like
like me like i'm not stupid okay when i
see people are like oh this company is
great uh does anyone else know it's like
okay i know you're working for this
company you're gonna get banned dude you
know like you're out of here you know so
just be mindful that's all i'm saying uh
cold calling scrib
now if you just cannot find business or
you're impatient and you and you and you
want to get the business we can start
cold calling no problem i cold call for
a few times and i do have a script that
can help you guys out i have created a
cold calling script for users who wants
to cold call maybe you're just one of
those social speakers who have that gift
of gab kind of like myself where we have
that gift of gab right
i actually have created a cold calling
script for all of you now before i go
ahead and talk about this script i just
want to let you guys know that i do have
another video that goes through this
entire script verbatim i explain what to
say
if they say something what to say back
and uh yeah this video covers all of
that
right here we have the ultimate cold
calling script web designers so
i do kind of go through this and say
look this is what you say
if they say something like
uh depending on their response we would
give a different response back so right
here you'll see if the owner says no if
the owner says yes if the owner says no
i have not seen the website or if the
website if the business owner says i'm
busy this is what you should say uh we
have you know we have the response for
no the response for yes the response for
i'm busy and so on and so forth how do i
know this how did i make this well
because i used to i used to cold call i
used to work for an seo company in
valencia i'm sorry in
malibu no not malibu no calabasas i
worked for an seo company in calabasas
and i was a full-time telemarketer and i
would call businesses and try to get
them to sign up for very overpriced seo
plans and then we would just outsource
it all to india and charge these guys
like 10 000 a month and then we would
just charge these guys in india like a
thousand bucks so that was uh what i was
doing and i did it for a few years so i
kind of understand what to say when
people just say like no i don't want it
you know it's like wait wait wait wait
let's talk about this you know like let
me let me push a little bit here so uh
yeah you guys can go ahead and go
through this script also you guys can go
ahead and check out this video alright
so we talked about cold calling script
let's go on to the next we are almost
done showcase your work on behance and
dribble this helps users see how good
your work is
this is your time to shine many users
search these websites to see the skills
of specific web designers and it's also
indexed by google images for more
exposure back to your website so how do
these people know that you're a good
designer right you can just be some crap
designer we don't know that but if you
add that proof saying look at this
beautiful website like does this look
amazing the customer is going to say
yeah this looks pretty good like you did
this
all right make my website done sold
right that is one way on how to get more
business the second way is google images
so first we have these websites at
dribble right and you can see that we
typed in web design and there are a lot
of different mock-ups and websites that
showcase their web design skills so this
is pretty cool now also you can do the
same thing for behance right you guys
can go ahead and check out a lot of
these other websites that people have
made
and yeah this gives you like opportunity
to shine however
these images are also picked up by
google images so let's say someone down
the road just says hey i'm gonna go
ahead and google some you know web
design portfolio examples and they see
something and they go like oh what's
this oh i like this and then they click
on it this can lead back to dribble or
your behance profile so it helps you in
two ways right it helps you
uh you know helps you showcase your work
where people can look at your work and
decide to hire you or not and they do
have a lot of views i mean look at this
107 000 views you know what come on i
can make a better website that looks
like this i mean this is not that great
let's let's take a look here you know
i'm a little competitive with design
here
yeah
yeah it's all right it's all right
definitely not definitely not that great
you know i can make something better
all right
i should i should email this guy saying
hey you want to have a want to have a
design battle buddy you know
but no it's not a bad side at all but um
yeah also remember that it does get
picked up by google images so that is
the second way so it helps you in two
ways so just make sure to submit your
work to dribble and behance for more
exposure all right so now we have
classified ads right so
craigslist and classified ads these
websites often have posts by users who
want to websites or they need help with
websites or they even need help with
wordpress sometimes these people who
post on these websites they are familiar
with wordpress but maybe they don't know
how to use like the docon plugin or they
don't know how to use the booknetic
plugin and they just need that little
help right maybe later you can just take
over the whole project which does happen
a lot but always check these websites
and feel free to post your services here
remember you need referrals testimonials
so grind hard when you're first getting
started out guys you really got to grind
because remember once you build that
small clientele
you can get referrals and as i said in
the beginning of the video referrals are
the number one way to get more clients
so let me go ahead and give you guys
some examples of classified ad websites
and also some craigslist jobs all right
here we go so we're on craigslist right
and i went to
uh web designers in los angeles it's
actually very funny i actually posted a
job here and i got like inquiries from
people all around the world so it was
very funny but uh here we go we'll type
in wordpress right wordpress
and uh let's see what we get here
alright cool we got some jobs for
february which you know that's the
current month that i'm in
uh front end developer
we have a person that needs help with
shopify
web developer ecommerce specialist and
also a web designer wait what is this
part-time administrative and web
designer
okay
okay let's see what this guy says i
think this guy's saying you have to
answer phone calls and use photo
photoshop and illustrator and no
wordpress huh
very interesting i don't know about that
job maybe they're asking a little bit
too much and a little bit not enough pay
so but uh this is one place where you
guys can go
you guys can also go to like oodle right
this is another you know web place where
you can uh post you know classified ads
and get jobs now
you might be thinking yourself darryl
these websites they don't look like much
you know and they look old and they look
like i wouldn't use it
who uses these websites the most
i'll answer that question older people
old people grandmas grandpas they like
these websites who has money grandpas
grandmas alright so never underestimate
your customers i feel a lot of people
that are older tend to use these
websites but older people do have big
budgets and you can help them by making
them a great looking websites and
filling their need because a lot of
these older people what i've seen is
they go to these like corporate websites
they spend big money on these terrible
templates it's like a disaster i have
had a few clients who went to like
web.com or
godaddy.com web design services and they
just uploaded some wordpress theme
template and charged up my four grand
and i'm like
yeah you got screwed you know like you
got screwed i don't know what to say so
you can you can help them you know we
got to help the other community
and also if you guys do need help
with uh finding more uh
directory websites i'm sorry classified
ad websites i will go ahead and leave
this article right here in the
description
this is from the web hospitality some
some websites and they've like pretty
much listed like all of the
classified ad websites where you guys
can go ahead and submit your listing so
yeah i'll go ahead and submit this in
the description so you guys can go ahead
and check it out
and uh yeah make sure to post regularly
and also if you feel like that's too
much work you guys can hire someone
part-time to post on your these websites
every single day so just make sure
that's a you know that's an option for
you facebook ads and send emails to
businesses with websites so first
facebook ads advertise on facebook is a
good way to start right advertising your
city and start with five dollars a day
and see how it goes don't spend hundreds
of dollars guys facebook is not like the
golden ticket okay it's just another way
on how to get more traffic and also we
have sent emails to businesses with
websites
let me go and read this to you guys you
can hire someone to ask them about their
websites scan the website through gt
metrics sorry scan their website through
gt metrics and show them the results and
let them know you can help them improve
their services now this is my personal
strategy i made up this strategy this is
what i did when i ran a business right i
don't know about anyone else but this is
something that worked for me and it
probably worked for you this is
caesarspalace.com this is one of the
most predominant casinos in las vegas
right and you guys have probably heard
of caesar's palace many people watching
this video probably gamble gambled a lot
of these casinos including myself right
and
you don't really know but uh when you
look at this website it's pretty slow
you know they need some work right now
maybe this company has been looking for
a new web designer but they just haven't
found one yet right so what i've done is
i went ahead and i went to gt metrics
and i ran caesar's palace through dt
metrics here's what i found f f fail
fail fail fail right now i can go ahead
and take this report
and i can email it to a client saying
hey you know we went we ran this through
gt metrics and guess what your site got
an f you're fff your site's slow it's
bad it's terrible just send them an
email you know and just show them this
report you can download the pdf right
here you guys have to create an account
obviously but what i used to do was i
would go to local businesses i would run
all their sites to gt metrics i already
knew their site was going to be terrible
right because they don't know what
they're doing they probably got their
site from wix or something and they got
an f right so i would take this report
i would send them an email and say you
know this is your website it got an f on
our audits uh it's poor it's poorly
optimized uh you might have a lot of
security problems down the road you
might lose customers bad bad bad bad i
would kind of pressure them into
you know responding to me and they did
half the time
and once that happened i would say you
know what's uh we can go ahead and fix
this for you you know we can go ahead
and make you a brand new website and
we'll make sure that your score gets an
a and we'll show it to you and we'll
prove it to you you know and when you
have that kind of confidence uh the
customer is very inclined to say
wow like you can give me the a
cool and remember you these guys are not
in the business of web design they don't
really care about their website too much
but if they hear that they can go from
an f to an a
hey that's a marketing uh that's a
that's a marketing gimmick you know we
can use gt metrics to make more money
right
so i would highly recommend
you know looking at local businesses
running their website through gt metrics
and then emailing them and just tell
them that uh this is one way we can help
you what do you think all right party
people thank you guys so much for
watching this video i hope it brought a
lot of value you know i know it can be
very challenging and very frustrating
when you don't get clients and you know
even me like when i started web design i
saw these websites that were designed by
these designers and they look terrible
and i'm like how come i'm not getting
this work like i'm better than them you
know it's it can be very frustrating you
know i have totally been there i've
licked the pot clean i totally
understand but practice these methods
and remember this is a long-term
strategy okay you probably won't get
customers on your first month okay i'll
just say that if you know you won't if
you do
congrats you got it lucky all right you
got lucky but remember this is a
long-term goal so if you keep these
practices up for a year you're going to
get found you will get found and if your
work is good you know it can work out
for you if you guys have any questions
for me feel free to let me know in the
comments below make sure to like this
video and again uh i wish you guys the
best you know it's a journey from here
and good luck i'll see you guys later