TommyCarey
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To be a web designer that works from anywhere, it's not that difficult to do as long as you have a laptop and a wifi connection 
It's no secret that having a well designed website is one of the main things that gets people to sign up for your services or pay you for a product. This means that if you're a good web designer, you can work from anywhere and people will pay you for your work
Your website is the first impression someone gets of you and your business. If it has a bad design, people will usually think your business isn't as good as your competitors. Think of it as handing out a business card, you would want a nice looking card so people think "Yeah, he knows his stuff" right?
If you personally don't have the skills to do all the coding work yourself, don't worry, there are ways to outsource the work to a credible designer but you'll have to find someone that is good at what they do and will accept a fraction of what you're making on the design.
A web design company is very cheap to start up. If you have all the skills to do the design yourself then you just have to pay for a domain and hosting which will cost up to $25 in your first month and then $3 to $15 a month after that. If you're going the outsourcing route to a designer you're partnering with, they can set up the website or you can get a web design template on wordpress and run it like that
You can find some cheap advertising spots for around $50 or less and they can be extremely profitable. Think of it, if you are selling web designs for $500+ and you get just one client per ad spot, you'll make a 1,000% ROI on that one spot And we all know that web designs can be marked up even higher at $3,000 to $20,000+
If you buy the template you're looking at upwards of $75. So the most it will cost you is $100 your first month to start up a web design service
The main thing I tell people is that you have to be unique and give amazing customer support. If you can't provide those, you'll most likely fail.
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Okay so this one is about starting a web design company then. And starting it by starting a well designed website and then promoting that site itself. A very well designed website with many bells n' whistles that you can show to people as an example. So they can see it, think that it's nice and looks good and works well and that will rub off on them if they can see that and will likely have more faith in your services. It makes sense on the face of it because a well designed website is very much like a business card in effect. If your site is not well designed, doesn't look good and doesn't have all the features on it that make up good web design these days, they likely wont gain much faith in you for that so that's an absolute must.
But I'm with Cristian on this one in that you make it sound much easier than it is. These days there is so much competition out there for this sort of thing. And when it comes to this sort of thing, people like to go where people are already going. They like to go with businesses that have been doing it for a long time. That said, people do like to save money as well and the smaller, lesser known web design services do often charge much less than the bigger ones do and you can often find one that's cheaper but also provides the same level of service as well when it comes to designing your website.
And like most things, when it comes to getting your web design business off the ground and out into the ether, it's all about getting those first few clients and putting a clients page up that has links to their websites so other people can check them out and see if they like them. But still, it's not quite as simple and easy as that. You will have to advertise and promote your site and its services. It will be a largely uphill struggle at first and things might move slow at first. It really depends on where you're advertising and promoting your services to and whether you're doing SEO and SMO as well to get good ranks. Because people who buy web design services see good rankings as going hand in hand with them. So if your site doesn't have good rankings, they might question if you can do the same for them too.
That said, it's all about making baby steps isn't it. Putting your site up first and making that look the nuts. Then promoting and advertising and doing SEO and SMO on that site in order to drive traffic to it by people who are actually looking for it.
Then if they like the look of your site you have a much higher chance of getting a sale.
But yes, great customer support must be given if you actually want to get repeat orders and "word of mouth advertising".
The best form of advertising you can get! :)
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Cristian
Why should a designer choose the hard way and make its own company, when designers are so well paid in the west for example? A simple day job can ensure a good salary while some freelancing on the side can make life even better. It works for me and I'm not even in a first world country.
I'm not saying don't do it! Just that it's really hard to get to a point when you actually make decent money, you'll have to work 10 times harder than a guys working at an agency. I think starting your own design company is pretty difficult, I've seen so many fails on this niche it's not even funny. One guys company is not going to take you anywhere from my point of view, it's simply not that different from normal freelancing and it's not worth it, especially for very developed countries where the cost of living is high. Why should a designer choose the hard way and make its own company, when designers are so well paid in the west for example? A simple day job can ensure a good salary while some freelancing on the side can make life even better. It works for me and I'm not even in a first world country. I'm not saying don't do it! Just that it's really hard to get to a point when you actually make decent money, you'll have to work 10 times harder than a guys working at an agency.
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