Your WordPress development business is up and running. You’re open and ready to start taking on projects. All you need now are… clients! Let’s show you eight ways to get them and eight ways to keep them happy.
“Get it done, be early to rise, build like crazy…and advertize!” – Web Developer’s Credo
Adopting the above credo and having a “client-getting process” in place for your web development business is vitally important, as it will ensure a steady pipeline of work and revenue.
However, while this might sound simple on the surface, with so many strategies and techniques out there for finding good clients, sometimes it can be impossible to know where to start.
Fortunately, we have a member community of 50,000+ web developers at our disposal.
So naturally we asked them how and where they find their clients!
We then broke down and analyzed their answers and grouped the methods that have worked for them into eight categories.
In this post, we’ll explore each of these methods and show you how to drive more clients to your website and get more business.
After reading this article, you’ll know the eight best methods to get clients for your web development business and (BONUS!) 8 tips for keeping them happy.
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- Word-of-Mouth
- Google Search/SEO
- 3rd Party Prospecting Sites
- Social Media
- Networking Events
- Social Media Groups
- Facebook Ads
- Cold Calling
Finding New Clients – The Eight Best Methods To Use
We’ve written about how to get your first client before; however, we’re going to dive a little deeper in this article by hearing from people in the WordPress development community about their proven ways for getting new clients.
We surveyed hundreds of web developers in our member community and found a few standard practices for obtaining new clients.
Everything from paid ads, LinkedIn groups, marketing funnels, cold emails, in-person meetups and networking events, and word-of-mouth.
So, we’ve graphed their responses into different groups based on their most popular methods for getting a new client…
The most effective ways web developers obtain new customers boils down to:
- Word-of-Mouth
- Google Search/SEO
- 3rd Party Prospecting Sites (e.g. Upwork)
- Social Media
- Networking Events
- Social Media Groups
- Facebook Ads
- Cold Calling
Let’s look at these
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This article was written by N. Fakes and originally published on WPMU DEV Blog.