Hi Anthony, I am not convinced that this forum is the right place for me to do into the details of marketing a web design company. However my blog does have a lot of articles on marketing related stuff so you might want to check that out: http://www.boagworld.com/archives/emarketing/index.html
What might be of more relevancy to this group is the problem of selling web standards compliant design to clients. I have confess we are in a fortunate position where a lot of our clients are public bodies (Universities, government organisations) and so many of them are well aware of the benefits and sometimes even request a standards build. Nevertheless there are still many occasions where I have to do the hard sell. In such cases I use the points covered in this article as the basis of my approach: http://www.boagworld.com/archives/emarketing/index.html The bigger sellers however are the print capabilities of css and the style changing (show them Zen gardens and they are sold). Hope that helps, Paul P A U L @ B O A G W O R L D News and advice on running a web site without overwhelming you with techno babble! www.boagworld.com - - - - - - - - Hi Paul, nice to see you on the list, I have just started my own web design service up in Carmarthenshire (so far away to be no competition!), mainly due to being made redundant from my day job. I was just wondering if you had any tips you would be willing to share, especially on the marketing side. I have never learnt the "old" style of table based html, I concentrated on css based design straight away, but it is a struggle at times to make pages standards compliant. I do however feel strongly that all our sites should now be standards compliant, even at the expense of some visual finery. Anyhow, Any tips most welcome! anthony -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.3/15 - Release Date: 14/06/2005 ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
