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How Top Web Designers Market Their Products

Date published: January 21, 2020
Last updated: January 21, 2020

Being a freelance web designer comes with its difficulties. It’s challenging to market your product in a large market, but it isn’t impossible. With the right tools, you can sell all of your services without sales representatives, although they are helpful if you can afford them. This blog post will detail how top web designers successfully markets and sell their products.

User Testing

Before you start selling your product, you need to understand what the market, and more specifically the customer, wants. Web design is an ever-evolving industry, and other companies are adapting to these industry changes by asking their user base what benefits them. For example, one of your clients may need a randomizer on their page so that it will display different posts on an interval. This blog post highlights 30+ user testing tools that are useful for a variety of situations.

Guide Your Clients

Although it’s tempting to build a website, take the money, and go onto the next project, it may make you lose a long-existing or loyal client. Websites have to be updated and serviced for them to function continually, and a person who knows nothing about a WordPress interface will need you to help them navigate it. Show them a few inner workings of the website, so they feel they have some control. Another way to guide your clients is by showing them the benefits of a custom website that needs updating.

Boost a Product

As a web designer, your website is what sells you and your services. However, instead of selling custom made package solely, you can sell premade website templates that are cheaper, but may be more accessible to the client. If you have the time to create products that revolve around a client’s needs, for example, a template specific for selling consumer goods, or another one for selling art, you will get more of your products sold.

Sell its Utility

People go to your website because of the results it receives, not from the aesthetics. Although a beautiful website will initially attract viewers, it won’t make them stay. Think of this when you’re selling your own web design services. Sell things like the personalized image, trackable metrics, targeted advertising, or enhanced productivity they will receive if they use your services. The best web design companies will prioritize results.

Expand your Knowledge

Branch out to more than one specialty, as websites need more than just a look to become successful. You could expand to social media profile creation, customer service, creating an internet marketing service, and so much more. These could be attached as add-ons to your already existing web design services.

If you don’t have the time to learn these other add-ons, or you have no interest in them, you could collaborate with other artists. As another alternative, you could sell someone else’s services with affiliate marketing. With affiliate marketing, you get a cut of the product that’s sold.

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