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Why Most Web Designers Fail or Work 60 Hour Weeks for Peanuts and Why You
Dont Have To
Joe Beaven - 30 October 2003
Whilst planning this article, I visited numerous message boards where web
designers congregate. I was shocked! Success did seem to be coming to a few
posters, but struggle seemed the plight of most. Leaving design college and
still being unemployed after a year was one common story. Beginners to
freelance working for next to nothing or not working at all was
another.
Most web designers will experience dry periods when they
just cant seem to get any work. But what do you do? Complain? Become
frustrated? Become depressed? Thats why I decided to write this article, to
let web designers like you know that it doesnt need to be that way, and that
you can make money with your web design skills, even when it seems like
websites must have gone out of fashion.
And how can you do this
wondrous thing? By designing in-demand turnkey websites that you can sell on
eBay and elsewhere on the Internet. Turnkey websites allow your clients to
start making money as soon as they get their hands on them.
Tremendous competition exists for web design work, whether as a
freelancer or with a company. Unfortunately though, ever since the dot com
bust, there just doesnt seem to have been enough work to go round.
Creating websites to sell on eBay provides a perfect stopgap for
anyone going through a dry patch and struggling to find work. Simply find
out what type of sites currently demand high prices, then design and set up
a site to fit and list it on eBay...
Whilst using this system may
prove very fruitful as a stopgap, plenty of people also take the opportunity
to make selling turnkey websites online their living.
As you may well
have realized already, it can be very difficult to get started as a web
designer. The old cant get experience without work and cant get work without
experience vicious circle applies as much here as with any other job.
This often results in desperate for work web designers taking jobs
for a fraction of what they should get. Once you get started working every
hour available for next to no money, raising your prices to a reasonable
level, and convincing people to keep coming to you, can prove troublesome.
Thats why many struggling web designers find the opportunity to
create turnkey websites such a lifeline. As long as your works up to
scratch, experience need not matter. Rather than experience, you just need
the right information and a system that will allow you to
succeed.
Still want to be a freelance web designer or apply for a web
design job? What do you think your clients or future employers will value
more? A fully functional web site you designed for a company in college?
("Hmmm...not bad"), or a string of satisfied clients who have paid good
money for websites you created totally by yourself, from scratch with no
professor to guide you? ("OK, now Im impressed").
Now, Im not
suggesting that you can create a site about your favorite comic book
character and sell it on eBay for $1,000, but your level of creative control
will rise significantly above that of your freelance work.
At any
one time, you will find certain types of site that people want, whether its
a pay-per-click search engine, proprietary product site or even a joke site.
But, you can decide which of these to create, and create it your way. You
can design it for the client you want to target, rather than the client that
happens to pay your fees at the time.
Many freelance web designers
find themselves spending more of their time going around, meeting clients,
working at keeping them and marketing themselves offline, than they do
designing websites. Thats all very well for the highly sociable, $100 an
hour types out there, but most designers would prefer to sit at their
computers, designing.
Selling websites on eBay will require you to
market your business online, but you can achieve this in a far more
effective and time efficient manner than you would struggling to find
clients by advertising in your local paper.
To market online, the
right information is essential. For anyone just starting out marketing
online, or even a seasoned pro, I personally highly recommend 30 Days to
Internet Marketing Success, available here:
http://www.smallsiteseller.com/30days.htm.
One thing that stood out
from those web designer message boards that I visited, was the negativity of
most of the posts. Many designers become disillusioned and even discuss such
conditions as anxiety and depression.
This does make sense if all
you ever wanted to do was design web pages, but now it looks like working in
a supermarket is your destiny. Sound familiar? STOP! You can make a living
doing what you love and get paid what your skills are worth...when you
create and sell turnkey websites on eBay.
So there you have it. You
no longer have any excuse for not making money from your web design skills.
Forget moping around the house or office wishing someone would give you a
break, or taking a job for less money than youd get cleaning toilets.
Simply look at whats selling on eBay, come up with your own super
improved version and start making the money you deserve.
(c) Joe
Beaven - All Rights Reserved
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