Any suggestions............

[Neo_Mitochondrian]

Anybody have any suggestions on how to get in the website production "bidness"? I have quite a few suckers.......errrr......clients lined up and need to know a way to approach that. I am not trying to rip them off, I will do high quality work for pretty cheap. Hell, if that ELEVEN YEAR OLD from russoweb.com can get $200 bucks for a crap job, Imagine what I could rake up! What do I do first? Portfolio site? Advertise? Select a price range? Select a customer base?

[Epgs]

portfolio, price range, select a customer base, then advertise

[dkc48]

Its not the easy getting into the Webdesign business. Sure the money is pretty good, but the challenge is really finding the suckers... err.. I mean clients.

Here's the least amount of info you need on your business site:

-Pricing Info
-Portfolio
-Contact Info

Make sure the site doesn't take too long to load because there are many, many other webdesigners out there.

Also, the "Portfolio" is incredibly important in luring the suckers. So stock up with as many good-looking, big-name projects as possible. If you don't have any, make them up!

I wish you good luck. Don't charge too much now...

[Epgs]

a good portfolio and low prices is what u need. and also advertise on like elance.com (i think)

[Rodie]

Actually viewing your customers as clients instead of "suckers" would be a good start.

[Neo_Mitochondrian]

The whole suckers thing was just a joke, although there are A GREAT MANY of them out there. I can't count the number of times people pay $400 for 7 pages and a graphic or two. It really sucks, yet people still pay. Hell, I'll work for better hardware.

[Rodie]

Originally posted by Neo_Mitochondrian
The whole suckers thing was just a joke, although there are A GREAT MANY of them out there. I can't count the number of times people pay $400 for 7 pages and a graphic or two. It really sucks, yet people still pay. Hell, I'll work for better hardware.

I should have realized that. My bad. But you're right about people getting ripped off for shoddy work. It's too bad more people don't realize how easy a website is to make. I guess some people think it's some archane thing that only the most elite programmers can create. That's the only reason I can come up with for why those people continue to pay so much for so little.

[akashik]

There's some nasty ones out there I'll agree. I think best example I've seen was a site I did a while ago. The result was $1100 for the redesign. The site I had to work with was a year and a half old, incredibly poorly done, and looked worse than the first page I ever built... cost $15000. I kid you not. I wish I'd known this *before* I made a bid :)

Greg Moore