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Running a Web Development Business: The Complete Guide by Udemy
Learn how to start and grow a successful web development business. Get up & running and making sales in under a week.
Course Highlights
- Understand how development stacks work and pick which stack is ideal for you
- Predict the timeline for starting your business
- Decide between hiring in-house employees or contractors for your business
- Decide between offering generalized or specialized web services
- Choose a winning combination of traits that you want your business to convey
- Understand the different types of contractors and where to find them
- Effectively allocate your time
- Assess the core components of successful web development firms
- Find cheap and professional ways of creating an online presence
- Select a name that's attractive and conveys your core messaging
- Master the biggest platforms for contracting: Freelancer and Upwork
- Use advanced search techniques to fill the gaps of your development work with contractors
- Create and organize a professional and effective portfolio
- Use a few uncommon techniques to grow your portfolio faster
- Utilize 15 different strategies to attract potential clients
- Create three different types of proposals and know when to use them
- Use tools like Proposify and Nusii to create and streamline proposals
- Strategically use ballpark estimates to close clients sooner
- Manage clients effectively while using your time efficiently
- Keep client retention rates high and minimize churn
- Sniff out a client's budget before they tell you
- Use advanced best practices to maintain your businesses growth
- Recognize client red flags before you start working with them
- Figure out the optimal pricing configuration for your rates
- Handle client meetings in person
- Gauge when clients are not likely to accept an estimate or proposal
- Make long-term decisions about which clients to retain and which to lose
- Integrate Asana into your workflow to increase transparency and efficiency
- Manage a team of subcontractors online
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
8 Topics
Course Overview
Join our community on Slack!
The Sprintkick story
Seven reasons to start a web development business
How to add development services to an already existing business
Who this course is for
Section 1 Review Material
Review sheets & resources - all in one PDF
8 Topics
Understanding the development stack
How to pick a stack
The startup timeline
How does this work as a programmer / non programmer?
How do development firms typically work?
Build yourself or subcontract?
In-house hiring or out-of-house?
Section 2 Review Material
6 Topics
Good - Fast - Cheap
Planning for the grind
To niche or not to niche
Types of subcontractors
In-country or out-of-country?
Section 3 Review Material
8 Topics
Focus on 80/20 solutions for web presence
Looking at other studios Part 1
Looking at other studios Part 2
Finding a template on TemplateMonster
Finding a template on themeforest
Selecting a name
Advanced: Upgrading your presence with custom design
Section 4 Review Material
9 Topics
Where to find subcontractors
What makes a good long term partner?
Intro to Elance Part 1
Intro to Elance Part 2
Intro to UpWork Part 1
Intro to UpWork Part 2
Intro to Freelancer
Finding freelancers elsewhere
Section 5 Review Material
5 Topics
Building portfolios upfront
Use these tricks to grow your portfolio faster
Thoughts about portfolios
Buying testimonials and case studies with catchafire
Section 6 Review Material
11 Topics
Strategy: Email scrape and blast
Strategy: Offer adjacent services to those trying to hire in house
Strategy: Discount offers to groups
Strategy: Use your affiliations
Strategy: Tag your work
Strategy: Selling things that require maintenance
Strategy: This sucks let me fix it
Strategy: The perpetual discount
Strategy: Build something and give it away
Strategy: Making tutorials strategy
Section 7 Review Material
9 Topics
Types of proposals
Components of proposals
Types of estimates
Our technique in depth costs of everything
Going over tools for improving your proposals
How much do you customize
Ballpark estimates versus exacto
Strategy: Introduce ideas and see if they stick
Section 8 Review Material
9 Topics
How to keep the right amount of distance
Confidence is key
Just enough jargon
Sniffing out their budget
Speed is important with clients
Is the client always right?
Don't talk about problems say what's happening
Do you deliver what's good or what the client likes?
Section 9 Review Material
18 Topics
Under promise over deliver
What is agile? Should I use it?
Client budgets and what difference they make
Web presence clients aren't worth it
Price per project price per hour
Should you worry about competition?
Hedging your launch date
Beautiful design makes beautiful development
Running without contracts
Red flags for bad clients
Rich clients versus successful clients
Tell when you're getting fizzled
Don't quote off the top of your head
Meeting in person
Is there a benefit to delivering early?
Repeat customers are the best
Avoid assumers
Section 10 Review Material
5 Topics
Intro to Asana Part 1
Intro to Asana Part 2
Making Asana work for you
Turning Asana inside out
Section 11 Review Material
2 Topics
Our $4k NDA yours free
Our standard Development Work Contract Template
1 Topic
Bonus Lecture
Running a Web Development Business: The Complete Guide
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