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I've started my own Web design and managing social media accounts company.

In order to attract clients starting Monday should I mention to people since I'm just starting out my rates are ____ but I'm offering my first 5 clients 50% off? Or is that too high of a percentage?

Or should I tell customers the first 5 people who sign up will get a ring or new phone valued at $1000 of their choice?

What's more appealing?
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The latter sounds scammy, but at the same time, is the price of the phone much higher or lower than your rates?
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I wouldnt go with a business that offered the second one
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50% makes more sense. That does seem steep and people might avoid something that seems too good.
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Never fucking offer discounts for "new" clients.
Just say there's a finder's fee of 15% of average.
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I've called other Web Design companies in my area to see what they charge. If a local small business wants an updated site I'll charge a flat rate along with a monthly fee to manage their site which is what everyone does. I might ask them what they currently pay and offer $100-200 less. If someone wants me to handle their social media account I'd charge higher.

The rate would be more than the item for 1 person because of my monthly fee. The item of course is a busniess write off.
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Get a real developer.
You may think you can get away with reusing purchased templates, but clients always demand "one little change" that screws it all up, the day before a scheduled launch, usually several times over.

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

I'll be sticking with WordPress. Not into Wix and SquareSpace. If I purchase a theme and edit the code it shouldn't effect another busniess since I think I have to buy that theme again right? Each client has their own sign in stuff for WP.

For Shopify which I used 2 years ago for a short time with a purchased theme I can create an ecommerce site for someone and hand it over to them. No way I'd manage that of course. It would be a one time setup fee.
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Austin_Era_II posted...

If I purchase a theme and edit the code it shouldn't effect another busniess since I think I have to buy that theme again right?

Do not edit theme files.
You'll lose everything when it updates, and "popular" themes are always infested with vulnerabilities - especially so the ones that roll in Slider Revolution and Visual Composer, which is pretty much all of them

I mainly just edit to remove WP from the site and add powered by my company name. Which is what others do from what I seen. I can regularly check my clients site to make sure once a week it doesn't show WP.
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Any real easy to use developer you recommend that's stable? I know WP can crash at times.
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