Finding clients
How to find and qualify local businesses whose website is failing them, before you write a word.
How to Find Web Design Clients: Start With the Local Businesses Whose Websites Are Already Failing
Most guides on how to find web design clients hand you a menu of channels. This one ranks them by whether they show who needs a site, then gives a seven-day plan.
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How to Sell Websites to Local Businesses: Score the Business Before You Write the Pitch
How to sell websites to local businesses: a five-stage sequence and a three-question Pay, Pain and Path score that tells you which businesses deserve a pitch, with a first message and quote structure.
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How to find the owner of a business before you pitch it
At a shop with no front desk, info@ already is the owner. The who-reads-it test, where a local owner’s name is actually written (review sign-offs, licence boards, county DBA filings), and the ladder from a name to the inbox they read.
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How many businesses are in my city, and how many need a website?
Page 1’s no-website percentages disagree by a factor of forty because none counts a city. Count yours instead: a Census denominator, a 20-listing sample per trade for the rate, and the arithmetic that says how many months of pitching it is.
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BuiltWith lead generation for local web design clients
BuiltWith is built for B2B sales, and its city filter drops the neglected sites you most want to pitch. The free, city-first order that finds them instead.
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How to tell what platform a website is built on
Identify the platform in two minutes, then read it: has this owner ever paid for a site, and is anyone paid to maintain it now? A pitch order built from the answer.
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Which local niches actually buy a website
“Businesses that need a website” lists confuse need with buying. A three-question test — owner controls the site, customer searches and compares, no platform owns that search — draws the shorter list of niches that actually pay.
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How to find local businesses without a website
The no-website list is free and picked over. The bad-website list is harder to build and converts better. How to source both, qualify for budget, and which one deserves your Monday morning.
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How to tell if a website is outdated in 60 seconds
Five checks you can run on any local business site from a phone, in order, each with the false alarm that makes it lie — and a two-fails rule for pitch or skip.
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