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How do you get clients

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06-15-2007, 05:49 PM
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No, not necessarily. When I was 16 (currently 17) I managed to pick up a few local clients. You just have to prove to them that you know what you are doing, and that you can provide the skills they need to expand their business. Would it be easier for an older guy to get the client? Yes, but is it impossible for a high school kid to get the client? No.

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I don't get clients, but when I'm looking for people, I usually get referrals.

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A combination approach of focusing on a marketing niche, providing a limited but free useful resource to demo your skills and newsletters about that resource works for me. Decent Google visibility doesn't hurt either. I just started posting in forums like this too.

Establishing a marketing niche over time is critical. Offering general web services can make you blend in with everyone else offering design, marketing, programming, etc.

The clients that pay better for me typically are small 1-4 person businesses in a similar marketing niche, using the same software and who have an established growing client base already.

These types of client I approach directly using email and voice. Essentially your competitor can make a great client if you bring something to the table that helps you both sell more.

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hey that's real helpful, thanks a lot. for something free, how about like a template each month that people can dowload from my site?

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I usually get my clients from a friend / previous client referral.
TFL got me a good few also =)

06-19-2007, 01:29 AM
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who are you trying to design for? will you design anything for anyone, IE taje blog/forum requests from web sites like this or do you want to deal with providing actual business media?

the thing i never realized about being young and trying to work with business is, you don't under business models at a young age. you can know photoshop like the back of your hand but if you don't understand the business you can't use design skills effectively and no one just knows business models and market conditions. they require a long term study.

edit: my suggestion to anyone who wants to do the later, contact local design firms that have a decent sized staff: at least 3-4+ eployees, and ask if they're interested in using you for web site production.

this means, someone else does all the fun stuff, designing all the different page layouts, and then they pass it onto you to fill it with content. so, if they're doing a school website and have an alumni section, they'll design the page layout, and set the photo/graphics standads then pass it off to you to edit everyone's photo/input the data intot the site. it's not fun, but it gives you real world stuff to study.

most people will probably say no, but web production is a pain, and you might get lucky if someone has a lot going on at once and just doesn't want to do it, or they coincidenlty lost someone.

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I'm not trying to start up some major business or anything. I'm just trying to make some money.

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Try freedesignquotes.com. You basically have to purchase leads. Also, try Craigslist. I have some good with results with craigslist.

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i really like this thread thnx baudday for startin it, and everyone that commented

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Forums have been really useful for me. Word of mouth is also powerful. The longer you're designing, the easier it is to get noticed - contacts start developing, returning clients etc

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