So I’ve started making websites, and the niche that I’ve picked is fitness, and mainly fitness coaches. Started using linkedin, it’s been 2 weeks since I joined linkedin, tried to get clients but haven’t been able to close even 1. I know few people who are fitness coaches, made a website for them for free. I told one of them on linkedin that there was a issue on their site, they were like yeah I’ll fix it. I made a design for them and sent, saying hey take a look this might help, they were like yeah I’ll fix the issue. That’s it. Do I need to change the niche, or these trainers are not willing to pay cause they are happy with in person training. I don’t understand, many experts on here. Kindly let me know what should I try.
According to IBISWorld, U.S. web design industry has market size $11.0 billon.
There are over 182,000 web design businesses in U.S.
This implies a fair share is $60,400 ($11.0 bil / 182K).
In my industry, fair share is over $500K. Downside is cost of entry is quite high.
Whereas in your industry there a great many participants mostly due to low cost of entry.
If you want to stand out in a very crowded marketplace, you need to create and establish a brand image.
This isn’t going to be easy with 182K competitors.
If you want to do battle with every Tom, Dick, and Harry that claims they can design websites, my advice is to find a mentor.
An expert willing to help you refine business model, get published, make introductions, etc.
What’s your industry? Could you give some niches where I can get started? I can probably send my designs and you can tell if it’s good enough to beat the competition or no
Same boat as you, run an agency. Would like to have a look on your designs