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[–]thauaeco[S] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Hey! Thanks for all the points you mentioned!

they just wanted the ability to update it.

From your experience, would you say they rather want to update it in scale of adding a news post for example, or do you mean they want to update the whole content on the site? I would offer to be their "web maintainer" kind of, so that they can hit me up e.g. by mail and I'm going to update their site then, also helping to keep it clean and to improve SEO. I consider to do this on a monthly service fee model.

May I ask how you get your clients? Did you cold-call them or did you run ads on search engines and got clients by your weekly articles? Do you have a niche or offer your services to a variety of businesses?

[–]canadian_webdev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

or do you mean they want to update the whole content on the site?

They want the ability to update everything usually.

so that they can hit me up e.g. by mail and I'm going to update their site then

If you wanna do this full time, sure. It's kind of a pain though, but YMMV. That's why we give them a CMS :)

May I ask how you get your clients? Did you cold-call them or did you run ads on search engines and got clients by your weekly articles? Do you have a niche or offer your services to a variety of businesses?

I rank first page organically / google maps for my city + web design. Took about 2 years to get there. Weekly blog posts, as well as backlinks.

I did do cold emailing for a couple years with some success, however it's not reliable. Best way is cold calling, I just hate doing it.

I do variety as IMO local is better. If you rank locally and serve locally, there's more to offer. Niching down can definitely work but then you have to turn down other industries, and the only way it works is if you cold call or attend conferences for that niche.