Re:Ask HN: How to find clients as a small Web Dev Agency wit...
by brudgers on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:23PM
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New consultants typically will get the worst projects because they have the worst clients. Good projects come from good clients and their existing consultants work hard to make them happy.
Generally you will get calls from three classes of people. Amateurs, grifters, and established players who will use your low due to desperation price to beat down the established contractor they are going to hire regardless.
Some amateurs can turn into good clients eventually after five or ten years of relationship building. Basically you have to be in it long enough to grow your business alongside theirs.
Grifters will have lots of experience but somehow failed to establish strong business relationships with the people they worked with. The reason is the people they worked with didn’t make money.
Generally you will get calls from three classes of people. Amateurs, grifters, and established players who will use your low due to desperation price to beat down the established contractor they are going to hire regardless.
Some amateurs can turn into good clients eventually after five or ten years of relationship building. Basically you have to be in it long enough to grow your business alongside theirs.
Grifters will have lots of experience but somehow failed to establish strong business relationships with the people they worked with. The reason is the people they worked with didn’t make money.