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    I put together a list of 29 successful online businesses started during a recession Entrepreneur


    I put together a list of 29 successful online businesses started during a recession

    Posted: 22 Mar 2020 12:08 AM PDT

    These are dark days, folks.

    But don't let them get you down.

    Many a successful business has been started during a recession...

    1. The Joe Rogan Experience

    • Podcast
    • Started 2009
    • Earns $30 million per year

    2. Okta

    • Security software
    • Started 2009
    • $6 billion valuation in 2017

    3. Airbnb

    • Online marketplace
    • Started 2008
    • $31 billion valuation in 2017

    4. On The Map Marketing

    • SEO agency
    • Started 2009
    • $350,000 monthly revenue

    5. Bitly

    • URL shortening service
    • Started 2008
    • Sold majority stake for $63 million in 2017

    6. Groove Networks

    • Productivity software
    • Started 2001
    • Sold to Microsoft for $120 million in 2005

    7. Loggly

    • Cloud-based log management and analytics service provider
    • Started 2009
    • Raised $47 million in funding and sold for an undisclosed amount in 2019

    8. EasyLunchboxes

    • Meal and snack containers ecommerce
    • Started 2009
    • +$1 million annual revenue

    9. T-Shirt Hell

    • Website that sells humorous t-shirts
    • Started 2001
    • $1 million estimated annual revenue

    10. Brown Thumb Mama

    • A blog about natural living
    • Started 2009
    • $3,000 monthly revenue

    11. Holstee

    • Ecommerce
    • Started 2009
    • $4.9 million estimated annual revenue

    12. Marques Brownlee (MKBHD)

    • Tech YouTuber
    • Started 2009
    • Earns at least $500,000 per year

    13. MonetizeMore

    • Digital marketing agency
    • Founder got laid off during 2009 recession, started business in 2010
    • $1 million monthly revenue

    14. Uber

    • Ride-share app
    • Started 2009
    • $82 billion valuation in 2019

    15. WallMonkeys

    • Wall decal ecommerce
    • Started 2009
    • 7-figure revenues

    16. Balsamiq

    • Software for designers
    • Started 2008
    • $6 million in annual revenue

    17. Brennan Dunn

    • Freelance web dev, consulting, software
    • Started 2008
    • $20,000 per week in 2014

    18. Groupon

    • Ecommerce deals marketplace
    • Started 2008
    • $1.35 billion valuation in 2010

    19. Thomas Digital

    • WordPress web design agency
    • Started 2009
    • $48,000 monthly revenue

    20. SFTourismTips

    • Website with tourist tips for San Francisco
    • Started 2009
    • $5,000 per month

    21. Asana

    • Project management software
    • Started 2008
    • $1.5 billion valuation in 2018

    22. The Adam Carolla Show

    • Podcast
    • Started 2009
    • $5 million in 2015

    23. Smart Passive Income

    • A website about online business
    • Started 2008
    • +$150,000 per month

    24. Fission Strategy

    • Social media marketing agency
    • Started 2008
    • $1.2 million revenue in first full year

    25. Stack Overflow

    • Q&A website for programmers
    • Started 2008
    • $60 million estimated annual revenue

    26. WhatsApp

    • Messaging app
    • Started 2009
    • Sold to Facebook for $19 billion in 2014

    27. GitHub

    • Hosting for software development version control using Git
    • Started 2008
    • Sold to Microsoft for $7.5 billion in 2018

    28. Quora

    • Q&A website
    • Started 2009
    • $1.8 billion valuation in 2017

    29. Chris Guillebeau

    • Blogger, author, speaker
    • Started 2008
    • $48,500 in first 12 months

    I also found this list of (mostly offline) businesses that were started during recessions, courtesy of Ryan Holiday in his book, The Obstacle Is The Way:

    Do yourself a favor and run down the list of businesses started during depressions or economic crises.

    Fortune magazine (ninety days after the market crash of 1929)
    FedEx (oil crisis of 1973)
    UPS (Panic of 1907)
    Walt Disney Company (After eleven months of smooth operation, the twelfth was the market crash of 1929.)
    Hewlett-Packard (Great Depression, 1935)
    Charles Schwab (market crash of 1974–75)
    Standard Oil (Rockefeller bought out his partners in what became Standard Oil and took over in February 1865, the final year of the Civil War.)
    Coors (Depression of 1873)
    Costco (recession in the late 1970s)
    Revlon (Great Depression, 1932)
    General Motors (Panic of 1907)
    Proctor & Gamble (Panic of 1837)
    United Airlines (1929)
    Microsoft (recession in 1973–75)
    LinkedIn (2002, post–dot-com bubble)

    Full list of references, etc. in original article.

    Any other successful businesses you know of that were started during a recession?

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    Survivorship bias : What a Mathematician During World War II Taught Us About Our Mental Biases

    Posted: 21 Mar 2020 05:25 PM PDT

    During World War II, researchers from the Center for Naval Analyses conducted a study on the damage done to returned aircraft after missions. They then recommended adding armor to the areas that showed the most damage to minimize bomber losses to enemy fire.

    However, Abraham Wald suggested differently.

    Wald was a Hungarian mathematician and a member of the Statistical Research Group (SRG), where he applied his statistical skills to various wartime problems.

    He noted that the study was only conducted on the aircraft that had survived their missions. It didn't paint a complete picture when the bombers that had been shot down were not presented for the damage assessment.

    With that, the holes in the returning aircraft were areas that need no extra armor — since the bombers could take damage and still return safely. On the other hand, the areas where the returning aircraft were unscathed are those areas that, if hit, would cause the plane to crash and be lost.

    Wald then proposed that the Navy reinforce areas by adding more armor to them — which was a perfect demonstration of how to not fall prey into the survivorship bias.

    What is Survivorship Bias?

    Survivorship Bias is a logical error that leads to false conclusions by concentrating on the people or things that made it past a particular selection process. And when we do this, we tend to overlook those that got ignored, typically because of their lack of visibility.

    It happens a lot in our day-to-day lives and negatively impacts our decision-making. A great example is copying what successful people have done and receiving advice from the so-called gurus and experts:

    Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of college and became wildly successful. But for most college dropouts, it means unemployment and having more immediate student debt.

    Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Neymar are getting paid highly as football players. But the truth is, most players never make it into a game in their lifetime.

    Motivational gurus talk about following your passion and trusting your gut feelings — but there is no shortage of people who followed their passion and ended up seriously wrong.

    When we're listening to the success stories in any field, we get inspired by the companies, portfolios, and people who made it to the top. What we don't hear and see are those who tried and failed because generally, people don't talk about them.

    How to Avoid Falling Prey into Survivorship Bias?

    Understand the survivorship bias itself helps to prevent it from happening in the first place. When you get clear with what it is, it becomes easier for you to see it again and again everywhere.

    The next step is to seek the other part of the story that is missing.

    Take "following your passion" as a piece of success advice. We first look at successful people who have followed their passions — and indeed, they accomplished what they desired at the end of the day. However, you need to ask ONE other question:

    Did people fail because of not following their passions?

    If the answer is yes, then we can come to the conclusion that "following your passion" is the key characteristic to accomplish success.

    However, the truth is that there are a lot of people who followed their passions and yet failed. This simple question forces us to look at both positive and negative evidence — and only make our assumption certain when there is no way to prove otherwise.

    Seeing the Full Picture

    Being aware of survivorship bias and knowing how to avoid falling into it comes with massive upsides. On the surface, it helps you see through the incomplete information others provide intentionally.

    But ultimately, it saves you from wasted resources like time and money by helping you to reach a good, well-informed decision. If making better decisions is important to you, you can check out more about it in my articles on mental models and cognitive errors.

    Article credit goes to Dean Yeong : https://deanyeong.com/survivorship-bias/

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    How do you get ideas if you're stuck and don't know what to do?

    Posted: 22 Mar 2020 04:20 AM PDT

    TLDR: In another subreddit someone asked if anyone had any suggestions/insight as to how to go about getting ideas for starting a business cuz they felt stuck. I wrote this reply, people seemed to like it so perhaps it'll help someone out here as well. Three things to get ideas: 1. Don't obsess over ideas, focus on problems. 2. Look at current solutions (which prove there's a real problem) and determine how you improve those. 3. Look at difficult but straightforward problems that, if solved, will instantly have an audience.

    Let's get into it.

    Hello, I am a 20 year old looking into starting a business and I have been so stuck lately.. I have experience in building e-commerce stores, but never have really found much success on the marketing side of things. Any suggestions on where to find business ideas for a business to start, inspiration, or books to read to learn the language of business, marketing or anything related to that nature. Thank you guys...

    Yes.

    Three things:

    i. Keep an annoying book.

    Everything that's annoying, write it down. If something pissed you off, bothers you or is frustrating, put it in the book. Any time you hear yourself think "FFS it's 2020! Why on earth is this so cumbersome!" Write it down.

    Training your mind to start noticing shit that's broken is a great place to start. I also think it's a big fat lie that you find Google, Netflix or any other hugeee unicorn idea by searching for them.

    You notice them by observing what frustrates you, and most of the time that's small.

    Think of Uber (wanted to be ballers in San Fran)

    Warby Parker (lost his glasses and designer glasses would cost you your firstborn plus grandma)

    or Spanx (wanted her butt to look good so cut off feet of pantyhose, but it kept cropping up.)

    I can give hundreds more examples of these.

    ii. The second one is a bit harder. You're basically looking for proof that there's a human need for smth and then you try to find the next iteration of that.

    At my company, we call this archeology (which is a subset of pragmatic behavioral psychology). You're essentially excavating a site to find an artifact.

    You didn't create that artifact, it was already there.

    So you're looking for a way to give people a better version of smth they already want.

    An example of this could be, you see the horse and expensive cars, and decide to create a cheap car for everyone (Ford).

    You see huge mainframes and decide to build a ghetto personal computer (Woz at Apple).

    You see blogs and wanna pull them into one spot (Ev's Medium).

    Etc.

    This approach requires you to look at the current solution, figure out the problem they're trying to solve and then trying to figure out what the next iteration would be like.

    The best part is that risk is slightly reduced because you know where to find your users, who they are and that there's demand (because there already products trying to solve the problem).

    There is one last one for the sake of being complete.

    iii. Hard tech

    These are pretty easy. In these situations, you already know what people want but all the difficulty is in figuring out how to create the damn thing.

    Curing cancer, getting to mars, solving the aging problem.

    This was pretty much the landscape of startups back in the 60s -90s btw. You knew what users wanted, the hard part was just making the hardware.

    Think of Fairchild semiconductor and companies like that.

    So there you have it, what you need to know to come up with ideas.

    One final note, execution is everything.

    When you have an idea, you actually don't really have an idea.

    What you have is the building blocks that you need to use to turn into testable hypotheses. (Yes I'm aware that's a tautology but I wanna stress it.)

    It needs to be falsifiable. The quicker you validate your idea the better.

    There are two ways:

    The right way and the stupid way (being facetious).

    The first one is to assume your hypothesis is false and prove yourself wrong by getting 3 paying users in a weekend.

    The second way is to assume your hypothesis is right and try to disprove that by investing time and money until you run out.

    The problem with the latter approach is that if you're right (and you don't run out of money) you'll succeed. But the much more likely situation is that you'll burn through months (or years) of time and tons of money before finally realizing your idea is a dog and markets don't want it.

    So optimize for accepting false negatives (rejecting good ideas based on failed MVP) vs the other way around. Should you want to learn more about this approach, this essay covers that topic in more detail: Paradigm Shift: Drastically Increase The Odds of Success

    Accepting false positives out of fear of rejecting a good idea.

    Unfortunately, that's both very difficult emotionally and highly counterintuitive.

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    Thanks for reading. If you enjoyed it I write rigorous essays about entrepreneurial science to help founders and companies over at https://www.younglingfeynman.com/featured

    RJ

    EDIT: I always read about people that supposedly comment having only read the title but I always dismissed it as BS.. idk just didn't seem likely to me that you'd comment based solely of a headline. If you comment smth dumb because you haven't read the article (which increases that probability) you'd feel embarrassed right.. well multiple people have cured me of that delusion hahah.. so many people commenting without having read so much as the 1st sentence. Not judging.. but I am fascinated though. I'll chalk it up to kind souls being very eager to help out their fellow peers.

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    “The best time to start a business as after a crash” - Everyone

    Posted: 22 Mar 2020 06:49 AM PDT

    I'm sure we have all heard this before, so what business do you think will be great to get in after this?

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    Post/Site that finds journalists/bloggers via searching key term?

    Posted: 22 Mar 2020 01:00 PM PDT

    SO, I recall a very valuable post on this sub, that linked a website for finding bloggers/journalists/writers/content publishers if you put in a specific keyword.

    unfortunately, I can no longer find that.

    Does anyone remember that post/website? I would greatly appreciate any help here!! thanks!

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    User testing a startup idea with Sketch

    Posted: 22 Mar 2020 12:32 PM PDT

    Just released a new episode in a youtube series documenting the process as I build a passive income startup. In this episode I build out the mocks for the app with Sketch and go through user testing to get feedback on the designs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvQhCmXJBNg

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    Marketing spend for early stage business

    Posted: 22 Mar 2020 02:09 PM PDT

    I started an online education company specializing in 1 on 1 tutoring for high school students. Its live online using video chat.

    I am struggling on whether to invest into marketing to generate more usage of the service and revenue.

    It is a new business so we are currently refining our service delivery, which is one of the major reasons I want to drive more users, even if it is paid. This is so we have more use cases where we can understand the needs of our customers better. Generating revenue will be helpful in terms of forecasting and many of my local incubators see revenue growth as a major marker for applications and I want to get what advice/help I can access.

    How the company/service stands as of today:

    Customers have tried our service and have had very positive feedback.
    The pricing of the product is in line with competitors and we know it is a service people are willing to pay for.

    The problem is I am not sure if I should be spending on marketing to drive more sales. The general advice on this matter is conflicting.

    Some startup advice suggest never spending on marketing in the initial stages. This is supposed to force you to fine tune your product and reduce burn. But as our product is not free like many services and b2c business that startup advice is meant for (in fact the price tag is quite high and the sales cycle is more like a Saas product than typical consumer products), it is unlikely to get widespread use without at least some marketing efforts.

    Another line of advice is to spend some percentage of projected revenue on marketing, approximately (10%-20% ). But given that we don't have a lot of paying customers the sample size is unrepresentative to say the least, projected numbers would not be accurate.

    So should I just slowly build out the service one potential customer at a time? Or spend some money on marketing and maybe even operate at a marginal loss just to get more use cases and feedback? The marketing would also generate other intangibles such as brand equity and awareness in the target demo if that counts for something at this stage.

    What are your own experiences like in a similar position? What did you choose to do?

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    Are you using social media ads in 2020? Here's what the experts are saying.

    Posted: 22 Mar 2020 02:01 PM PDT

    A few weeks ago, I asked 3 growth marketing experts to tell me about the biggest changes to social advertising in 2020 in 3 sentences or less.

    Here's what they told me.

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    Karola KarlsonGrowth and Marketing Expert"Advertisers have to become increasingly savvy about creating highly converting ad creatives and adapt them for specific placements. E.g. you should have different ad visuals for Facebook feed, Instagram feed, and Instagram stories."

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    Duane BrownE-Comm, tech, and SaaS Marketer

    "The biggest change to paid social in 2020 is branding being more open to ad platforms beyond Facebook & Instagram. We are seeing more brands open Snap Ads, Pinterest and other similar channels."

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    Brandyn MorelliHelps tech companies grow at Tilt Metrics"Facebook's Ad Platform is moving away from ad-set budgets and making campaign budgeting (CBO) mandatory on new campaigns. This drastically changes the process for experimenting with new ads, we now create a separate campaign for each experiment to ensure the new ads receive sufficient impressions."

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    Hope that helps! Check out the full post here:

    https://www.startupgrowth.club/issues/social-advertising-changes-2020

    Cheers,
    Colin

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    Freelancers and Businesses, what are the main problems you've encountered when dealing with each other?

    Posted: 22 Mar 2020 02:00 PM PDT

    Hey everyone, hope you're all doing well and staying safe.

    I'm dropping this question just to lightly validate a concept I've been working on for the past while to help freelancers and businesses connect a little easier.

    I'd also really appreciate if you could let me know if you use any particular websites for this and if not then why not?

    Peace.

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    Selling a 108k instagram page (see details below)

    Posted: 22 Mar 2020 01:57 PM PDT

    I'm selling an instagram meme page with 108k followers with around 12% engagement. I'm looking to sell pretty quickly, so if anybody is interested please DM me!! Asking price atm is 1500 OBO

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    Can anyone with lots of experience as an entrepreneur give me a private message or comment on this post and mentor me in a way? I have a lot of questions I just need the right persons help

    Posted: 22 Mar 2020 01:02 PM PDT

    Background: -Im currently 17, a junior in high school

    -I have been interested in starting a business for a while now but am not sure where to begin

    -Interesting in one day working in the business side of the music industry (a company like Fender, Gibson, etc) or starting my own company

    -I plan to Major in Business Administrations with a marketing concentration and a minor in Entrepreneurship

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    Lots of bored kids stuck inside staring at TV and computer screens right now. What if I came to your house and performed a type of live-action entertainment from the front yard?

    Posted: 22 Mar 2020 12:55 PM PDT

    I was thinking of posting on Nextdoor that for an undetermined amount, I would come stand in your front yard and read a book or do a play of some type? Could be educational and fun. You leave the cash on the doorstep when I am finished so no possibility of spreading germs. I think this could really work with little to no overhead. Does anyone have any suggestions on what may work? Or is this a terrible idea?

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    What are some unique skills you look for in a virtual assistant?

    Posted: 22 Mar 2020 11:49 AM PDT

    Like many others around the world, I too have lost my income due to the coronavirus. Being part of the gig economy, I'm desperately hoping for universal basic income to be introduced, or I'll be moving out to the woods in no time.

    Contemplating my work-from-home options, I came to the conclusion that the role of a virtual assistant might be my best bet.

    Now here comes my question to you, the entrepreneurs of Reddit, or anyone else using the service of a virtual assistant - what are some unique skills that you look for?

    The competition is undoubtedly going to rise. What is a skill, preferably technical, that I can pick up in terms of days/weeks and will make me stand out from the upcoming fierce competition?

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    Turnover 1.2M€ per year, OK and after ?!

    Posted: 22 Mar 2020 11:16 AM PDT

    Hello entrepreneurs, so quickly I run 3 softwares and apps for BtoB and my turnover is more than 1.2M€ a year, I work ALONE and my charges (desk, marketing, support) is about 80k€ per year and taxes is about 300/350K€ a year. Now my question : What's next ? I didn't change my life style, I don't need anything more, I rent a good appartement I have a regular good car and we eat good and like my gym club .. should I recrut and grow up ? Should I sell the business (evaluated to 5.5M€) ? Should I stay like this ? I am fed up of fakes business mans in YouTube who just wanna sell something and they haven't a real advices .. ! I already start new project with projection of 500/600k€ a year but I think make it for Free to help companies .. I already give some maths/ computer science courses for Free !

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    My predictions on how this pandemic will affect your business AND the world.

    Posted: 22 Mar 2020 11:05 AM PDT

    I've written a nice article and tried to post it here (by showing the excerpts) but the mods, in their wisdom, removed it. I'll try to summarize it again here, without the link (maybe in the comments).

    1)People's priorities have changed.

    -the bottom levels of Maslow's pyramid have the highest priority in people's minds:

    (Security, Safety AND food, water, warmth, rest)

    -businesses catering to those levels might see growth

    -After some time (and with govt. possibly giving away free money to its citizens) people will start looking for more than basic necessities (aka entertainment) while being stuck at home.

    2)Some people still cling to the idea that things will go back to the "old normal"

    -the landscape has changed (and it will change some more) dramatically, similar to the changes after 9/11.

    -Some people still cling to the idea that things will go back to normal. They won't. Clinging to that idea will only do you harm.

    3)People's social isolation (staying mostly at home) will last for at least 2-3 more months.

    -I don't think people will accept willingly to stay at home for more than 3 months. I'm in isolation for 2 weeks and already going nuts. Humans are social beings and we can't function well without that aspect for prolonged periods of time.

    -3 months is enough time for the pandemic to cool down all over the world.

    4)A cure is going to be found soon but complications will arise.

    -Considering the time, money and effort poured into finding a cure there are no doubt medical solutions will appear soon.

    -Due to the situation being hugely complex complications will arise. Things will get better but not FAST and not SOON.

    6)The restrictions due to covid19 will get even worse.

    -We haven't reached the peak of this crisis yet. As the gravity of the situation will increase so will the reactions of various governments.

    -food rationing, "virus-free" ID cards, new regulations & restrictions upon the business world.

    7) Should you close shop?

    -There is still a market out there & people still need things.

    -Businesses servicing the bottom 2 levels of Maslow's pyramid can actually see growth while others should keep their heads down.

    8)Is talk of business insensitive during these times?

    -no, business & commerce are the lifeblood of our world.

    9) There are 2 main dangers for your business:

    a)You won't have the resources or forethought to survive during the pandemic.

    b)You won't adapt fast enough for the world after the pandemic.

    10a)During the Pandemic

    -Here's a list of verticals which could see growth during the pandemic:

    • indoors sports equipment
    • home entertainment (games, streaming, tv, apps)
    • pharma
    • cleaning & sanitizing
    • healthy foods
    • supplements (natural or otherwise)
    • home education
    • books
    • tea/coffee/beverages
    • funeral homes 🙁
    • tobacco
    • alcohol

    -if your business is in one of these verticals your marketing budgets (if you can afford them) should go up, not down - at least experimentally & for a short while.

    10b)After the pandemic.

    -we'll be looking at something we never seen before (our ancestors did) - the world after a pandemic

    -people's fear of infections will be at high levels for a long time.

    -Pharma & clean/sanitizing verticals will be hot for years to come.

    -airport security measures will go up even more.

    -travel & emigration will be harder to do than ever before. Travel agencies will have to adapt fast or die.

    DISCLAIMER:

    This article represents one person's opinion and people's opinions can and will be flawed at times! The author of this post and will not be liable or held liable for any consequences of using the content of this post.

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    How to Find Web Design Clients Using Elementor

    Posted: 22 Mar 2020 11:00 AM PDT

    Despite what you may think, web design is still one of the most requested services. Being able to create websites, sales pages, social media assets, is a golden skill to have.

    The only problem sits on finding and convincing clients.

    Even if there is a lot of demand, there is a lot of offer.

    The Web is full of designers with more experience than you, a better portfolio, or lower prices.

    In this jungle, how can you get in front of the right web design clients beating a wild competition?

    In this article, I'll show you my technique to find those clients and convince them to work with you, using my favorite website builder: Elementor.

    If you want to watch the video version of this post, you can watch it here.

    Getting clients is always a complicated matter in every niche, especially in web design, because of the massive competition on the Web.

    So what can you do to get ahead of your opponents?

    Let's start with the basics: you need to have a portfolio showing previous works.

    Most of the people don't have anything to show or anything they're proud to share.

    I solved this problem by working for free, but you don't have to get that extreme. It's enough to lower your prices in the beginning and reach clients who are right for you.

    But where can you find web design clients? Let's tackle this problem.

    Clients are all around you.

    Having the possibility to reach the entire world at our fingertips, we usually forget that we can look for clients around us.

    I'm sure hypothetical clients surround you, and if you don't know them, you could ask a connection in common to introduce you.

    Maybe you have a friend who goes to a gym that needs a website redesign. Or maybe your mother knows the owner of a restaurant that doesn't even have a website.

    Trust is one of the most potent triggers to start a collaboration, and being introduced by a connection, builds trust straightaway.

    Otherwise, look around your city for shops, hotels, bars, and check their websites. Opportunities are all around, and you just need to be a little more open-minded to spot them.

    Getting Clients Online

    As I said previously, finding private clients online is a lot more difficult because of the vast competition.

    That's why we need to think outside the box.

    If you want to build websites as a service, you need to think about who needs a new website or a website rebuilt.

    Here's what I did at the beginning of my career. I've joined a few Facebook Pages for online business pitchers. In those groups, new startups launch their web apps, offering lifetime deals for new customers.

    I knew many of these startups were formed mostly of developers, and they rarely think about how much design is essential to growing a user base.

    My role was to show them how their websites and web apps would look with a great design.

    I visited every single website of these startups, and I took note of those that needed a website or a web app redesign.

    I discarded the ones that had a stylish or modern look&feel.

    Propose a solution

    The next thing to do was reaching out via email.

    I use different ways to reach my potential clients, and if you want to use a fancier one than email, check this video where I explain how I used video letters instead.

    How to Reach Out to Potential Clients — My Bulletproof Technique

    Talking about cold emails instead, I guess you've already heard about avoiding them cause they don't work.

    Well, it depends on how you use them.

    As I said earlier, you need to differentiate from the crowd. The wrong approach is to talk about yourself, how great you are, how good you are in your field, with whom you worked in the past, yadda yadda yadda.

    I prefer instead to put the spotlight on the addressee. I highlight my client's problem, and I propose an immediate solution.

    And this is where Elementor comes into play.

    In case you're not familiar with Elementor, it's one of the best website builders on the market, and it allows you to create a great-looking website within minutes.

    You can use one of the hundreds of templates available, and create a sleek page without the slightest design skill.

    And this is exactly what I did for my clients. I recreated their homepage with Elementor, and it took me not more than 20 minutes per client.

    In my presentation letter, I explained why their website needed a redesign, and I've attached the mockup to give them an idea of what they could have.

    Why this system works

    If you want to outmatch the competition, you need to think long-term. Instead of chasing money immediately, plan your strategy.

    1% of people spend time to create something for a hypothetical client, even before getting paid. That shows a significant commitment.

    Is this enough to convince all the clients? Obviously not.

    But this system gives a better success percentage than doing what everyone else does.

    If you don't know what to write to the clients in your presentation email, you can download 3 distinct emails I used in the past.

    These are real case studies that gave me great results.

    You can take a look at them, personalize and re-use them.

    Download them here.

    What about you? How do you reach out to clients and convince them?

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    Advice needed on website

    Posted: 22 Mar 2020 10:27 AM PDT

    Hey guys,

    Is anyone able to give me some advice on which database to use for my, still to be built, website? The database will be containing many recipes, ingredients, nutrients etc. Or is there any possiblity of using an existing database to use an input to my website service?

    Would be great if someone can help me out.

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    Money making support and ideas ��

    Posted: 22 Mar 2020 10:13 AM PDT

    Creating this group for entrepreneurs or people who want to discuss and share ideas to create more income. First group I've made so thanks for any support and hope this reaches out to some ✌🏼

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    Im 16 and starting a little art business by myself, need some suggestions!

    Posted: 22 Mar 2020 09:59 AM PDT

    Hey guys i recently spent some money for spray paint and tried something new and it turned out well and it looks good. I spray paint stuff on posterboards and so i started a website pricing things at $15-25 (larger known people who do that sell for $50-125).

    I have been making tiktoks and telling people to check out my website, because it is surprisingly easy to get known on tiktok.

    Im just looking for some suggestions on what I could do to better my "business". I am using shopify as of now and wondering ways to get out there more.

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    Is this possible? I was thinking about starting a site that allows you to trade something you own with something they own (I have a specific thing that would be traded but don’t want to share.) I just don’t know how I would manage the trades and get the items shipped to each side. Is this possible?

    Posted: 22 Mar 2020 09:50 AM PDT

    If it is possible, any ideas on how I would do so? I would run this business from my home so I don't really want people sending me their things. I would like them to be traded directly to the sender and recipient.

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    What do you think will happen to the economy in the next few weeks/months?

    Posted: 22 Mar 2020 09:32 AM PDT

    Governents (especially here in the UK) are trying their best to keep everything afloat and stop a recession/depression. Do you think it's inevitable?

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    Relationship with wife getting worse during quaratine

    Posted: 22 Mar 2020 09:20 AM PDT

    Hi everybody, I don't know if this is the right sub, but as an enterpreneur I believe you can help me... I am writing because, due to this virus, I am obliged to stay home and spend muvh time with my wife, which is a very good thing of course, but which is making things difficult. We always worked a lot, we barely met during the week, just a couple of hours in the evening, when we were both tired and not that talkative... now we spend many hour together and we are not used to it, so we often quarrel, for littereally everything. It is frustrating and makes these days even more difficult. Am I the only one who's facing this hard time with his wife? Thanks for any suggestion or experience sharing.

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    I've switched our charity partner to the Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund and urge you to do the same.

    Posted: 22 Mar 2020 02:43 AM PDT

    It can be temporary but this charity set up by the World Health Organisation aims at getting hospitals as many resources as possible. I'm sure some of your customers would appreciate it as well since a lot of people don't know how to help, but want to.

    https://covid19responsefund.org/

    We've also given the link on the website if anyone wants to simply donate directly.

    If there are any graphic designers looking for a quick job, we need a banner made to show this as currently we're using the one on the charity website (www.playalondon.com)

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    Startup Investing...

    Posted: 22 Mar 2020 08:35 AM PDT

    I'm very intrigued in this company, but the initial investment is $1,000 and the shares are currently at $1.413 each. Is this a very risky investment?

    https://invest.wincshares.com/mb?utm_source=morningbrew&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=315

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