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Originally Posted by runningbird  You could get some freelance jobs on sites like nerdlance.com. I think that eventually the best way to market yourself would be to create your own impressive site and then provide contact info on there. It would take a while to build up traffic though....pretty tough actually from my experience. But you could very well have better luck. |
I was thinking of building a site specifically for building websites, but I didn't want to get too ahead of myself and reserve a domain along with actually building a presentable website. Also like you said, it might take awhile to build up traffic and thus business.
I wonder if tapping into the local area would be a good test of the marketability of website design? Although there might not be a lot of people around here that need a website, all I would need would be a few clients from now until July-August to supply me with the money needed to move out.
I browsed around other sites that offer website design and saw how high their prices were compared to what I was gonna offer! But then I thought about what Steve said in
Living Paycheck To Paycheck about giving yourself permission to earn more. Once I relooked over the prices that everyone else was offering, they didn't seem so high.
So I'm thinking about starting off at $1,500 for the basic design of the site and setting up their domain, email, and hosting (domain and hosting are for a year unless they want to pay for longer than that).
I'm also thinking about utilizing affiliate programs that DreamHost and others have in order to get additional income at no cost to the customer.
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Originally Posted by runningbird Oh, I see you actually have a blog going. But you probably can't use that as an example of your expertise.
Can I ask you what plugin you used for the star rating? I tried like 2 or 3 different ones but none of them worked for me. Feedback is important. :/ |
Yeah, my blog isn't the most well-designed, hehe!
For my star rating, I use
OutBrain. It also gives you the Recommended Posts feature as well. Although not too many people actually give me a star rating, it does give me an idea of which posts are connecting and which aren't.