Getting New Gay Web Design Clients

Getting New Gay Web Design Clients.

Are you just starting in the gay web design business? Well you’re going to need some traffic to your gay site portfolio. You need to get your name out to as many people as humanly possible. If you don’t have the contacts, then you don’t have the work. Network, communicate, and setup your portfolio. These are the 3 most important steps when starting your gay design company, preceding these three steps are advertising and demonstrating.

When many designers start out, they have no clue what they are doing except for designing gay websites. They know they need gay design clients, but have no idea where to start finding them. That is what we will take a look at in this article.

Finding Gay Design Clients - Networking.

Networking is quite possibly the single most important aspect of running a gay design company, if you don't get your gay design site out there, you wont get any clients, this is where networking comes in to its own, find a few gay business forums such as Gay Wide Webmasters, start joining in the discussions with their other community members and get your name seen by those people who are going to build up your stable business, those who are already working in the gay markets.

Getting Gay Business - Communication.

Now that you are on a business community and actively participating, keep an eye out for topics of interest to you specifically topics with a design orientated feel to them, if someone is asking about graphics software, make sure you are one of the first to respond, if someone is asking about making an animated graphic, be sure that you are one of the first to respond, sometimes, clearly communicating that you are willing to help others, even for free on an open message forum, will start putting you and, more importantly, your gay design companies name in front of the people who will start sending their business your way.

Building Your Gay Design Portfolio.

The most crucial aspect of getting business to your gay design site is making sure you have a portfolio of sites to show your potential clients however, as you have probably already found out, unless you have a couple of sites in your portfolio to show, you wont get any new business, catch 22.

This is where the communication that we spoke about earlier comes in to play, if you notice someone looking for help when designing a banner, why not design one for them, for free? Sure its going to take you a few minutes to get the banner done but, by offering a free banner every now and again to the people asking for help and advice, who's name and gay designs will they remember when they need paid work? Someone they have never used before or, someone who has already helped them out? The added benefit of literally giving away freebies is that you can also get to use these in your portfolio and, if you have nothing in there to show at the moment, you haven't really lost any business instead, you have potentially increased your chances of gaining some new gay design clients.

Gay Design Companies - Advertising Your Site.

Advertising, whilst being one of the most effective methods of getting new clients, need not be a strictly paid solution. For example, there are many places who will list your design sites for free in exchange for a link back to their site (often called a recip link) give your gay design site a special page for recip links and get as many recips to your site as possible. The more links you have on other peoples sites, the higher the chance of gaining new clients you will have. Of course, there is always the paid route to when advertising your site but, this should be second place once you have compiled a list of recip partners, if you are noticing one of the sites you are reciping with is sending you some good traffic, talk to them about purchasing a paid ad spot for a month or two, often, if you have a recip link on your site already, you'll find these companies are willing to work with you on rates and campaign lengths.

Gay Web Designers - Demonstrate Your Skills.

This also touches again on the communication section above, if you notice someone looking for help and advice on a specific topic that you know the answer to, rather than just posting the answer in their thread, why not make an article out of that question and pot it on your site? This way, the next time someone asks the same question, rather than having to give the answer again, you can simply give them a link to the article on your site, thus getting you and your gay design site some traffic. Whilst on the subject of articles and tutorials, why not ask some of the gay business resources out there if they would be interested in having you write for them on a regular basis? Often you'll find these types of resource site have a need for articles and many will even link to your site from the article itself thus sending you more traffic in return for your knowledge. Being able to demonstrate that you actually know what you are talking about is going to mean the difference between getting new design clients and not.

Getting Gay Design Clients - An Overview.

As you have hopefully seen from reading this article, whilst you have the necessary skills to design websites for gay clients, unless they know you have these skills and are a trusted part of their community, the chances of them coming to you to do the work is slim. It isn't just about providing high quality design work to your potential market, it is also about building your business relations within that market, this is especially true in the gay community, spend some time when you first launch to offer help and advice and you'll reap the benefits for the long term, don't just market your design site, market yourself.

Article written by Lee.

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