how to do web design
How do I advertise my web design services?

I’m a new web designer and I just published a website about my services. How can I get traffic and find new clients? I thought about things like Craigslist and placing posters on bulletin boards. I target mostly individuals and smaller businesses since my websites are dynamic HTML.

What are some good ways to get people to notice me?

Advertise locally, to local businesses – and do the first few sites for free. You can’t pay for the advertising that a few happy customers can buy. Then you can list their sites on your site as work you’ve done.

Craig’s List is one good place. Walking around is another way – call on local merchants who have no web presence. Make sure you know what the hosting and domain name will cost them. Have a few available domain names for them.

Check on the web for how you should word your contracts – if you don’t have a good contract you’ll be doing a lot of free work and have a lot of dissatisfied clients, or lose clients. Even for your free work – this is what you want, this is what I’ll give you and there won’t be any charge. Any additional work will be charged for at X rate. That kind of thing. (There are some sites that sell boilerplate you can use. They’re written by people who learned the hard way.)

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