I have earned money by selling website design to local (Pakistan-based) companies.
This is first thing I did, while still at college.
I would just walk into stores, and ask if they want a website. Many a times, this approach did not work (I now know why it didn’t work), but sometimes, it did.
I made my first website in the year 1999, or 2000 I think. Never looked back, as they say.
How you can start selling website design (in Pakistan and anywhere else for that matter)?
You can sell website design services much more easily if:
- you dress up like a bloody CEO! No one wants to give money to this kid in a t-shirt and flip flop chappals. You’ll be a kid even if you are 40 when you go to client meeting wearing a t-shirt and flip flops
- if you think you can finish the project in 7 days, then tell the prospect that you will finish the project in 21 days. Yes, don’t double it to 14, triple it to 21. Then deliver it in less time and you’ll get yourself a very pleased customer. Also you get to say “I/we overdeliver in our services”!
- Make sure everyone knows that you are now making websites; your first few customers will definitely come from within your close network of friends, so ensure they all know. We talk at length about this absolutely fundamental concept of community circles in our free Masterclass on Branding.
