I started small web design/development company couple of months ago with a friend of mine. Its a part time business that we both do in addition to our day jobs.
In reality we have only done couple of jobs that we have got paid for and its nothing big. We have some bigger deals going on also but first lessons as a entrepreneur, nothing is done until you see the money in your bank account.
We haven't done any marketing yet, just organic traffic from google and word of mouth advertising. I am planning on making some landing page and campaign based on this news http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/244175 (Google start punishing the non mobile sites). I hope it creates some opportunity in the market and people start looking for quick ways go convert their old homepage into mobile friendly page.
But we do get some random emails from customers that obviously doesn't have the money and they ask something like this: Hi, Im planning a new website for auction site, I need a design and website for that. Can you do it, how much it costs, id like it to be blue? First I was taking my time and answering them and asking for details etc but I stopped after a while since its pointless. You can tell if the customer is for real or not.
Good luck with the business!
In reality we have only done couple of jobs that we have got paid for and its nothing big. We have some bigger deals going on also but first lessons as a entrepreneur, nothing is done until you see the money in your bank account.
We haven't done any marketing yet, just organic traffic from google and word of mouth advertising. I am planning on making some landing page and campaign based on this news http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/244175 (Google start punishing the non mobile sites). I hope it creates some opportunity in the market and people start looking for quick ways go convert their old homepage into mobile friendly page.
But we do get some random emails from customers that obviously doesn't have the money and they ask something like this: Hi, Im planning a new website for auction site, I need a design and website for that. Can you do it, how much it costs, id like it to be blue? First I was taking my time and answering them and asking for details etc but I stopped after a while since its pointless. You can tell if the customer is for real or not.
Good luck with the business!