How to Start A Web Development Business in 2022
Tags: webdev, programming, productivity
Published: 2022-01-12 06:02:56

Are you planning to [start your Web Development Business?](https://externlabs.com/blogs/how-to-start-a-web-development-busines/) Or are you stuck in a job that you don’t like? The Dream of using your web development skills for your own business with flexibility and freedom. Then you got yourself at the right place. We will help you guide how you can set your Web Development Business and successfully keep it working with happy clients.

First, you need to understand some elements that you will need to manage your business successfully, and we are going to cover them in this article, Including -

How to find & manage clients

How to manage the back-end of your business

How to plan future growth

So, Let’s get started

Before You Do Anything or Preplan

Firstly, you will need to plan some things that will help you measure how well your business will perform and what you need to prepare to keep it growing. 

Quit your current Job

Before starting your business, you will need to quit your current position of whatever you are doing. You can’t run a business while doing a full-time job or other work. You are the lead and the only person who will take the company from scratch to new heights.

Decide Basic Elements of Your Business

You need to decide who will be your clients, what can you do and offer to your clients and the main this how much will they cost? Many complex questions.

First, look for who is looking for Web Developers and short out them to clients you seem to serve. Don’t include clients that you can’t help on your own at the start.

Now you know your clients, you can plan your services and how you are going to present them with a genuine price tag.

Another challenge will be to decide your service rates and on what basis you will provide them. You can check online what a web development company costs on various platforms and choose a minimum price for the beginning. 

Now, You have prepared yourself. So, It’s time to find clients. Here’s how - 

How To Find Clients

Finding clients is the hardest part of any business; you can hire a business development executive who can help you find businesses, But at the start, you are the sole player of your business, and you shouldn’t pay for one.

Try Your Existing Network

Best option to start and find clients, check with your colleagues or any community. Call out clients from your social networks and reach people you know. Of course, this has meager chances of finding clients, but if you get any, then they will be trustworthy and lasting clients.

Post openly on any channel, medium, or network and manually tell people that you have started your Web Development Business.

Make Your Presence On Social Media

Social networks are the best option to reach out to a broader audience and get a client looking for a Web Developer online. Start with professional networks like Linkedin, Upwork, and so on. 
We can get good traffic and leads from professional social networks. In addition, People who are looking for a web developer will be searching for someone like you on social media. This will make it a very good option for finding clients.

Try E-mail Marketing

Try to get some mails from the development industry or search for a growing business or whatever that you think might need a web developer at any point. Make a good list out of it and then make more lists from this but with filtering clients. You should have at least 5 lists and a total of 200 names on them. Then write an appealing Email relevant to that specific list and send them. You can do this on cycle.

Do Cold Outreach

Set a goal of pitching a preset number of clients and make a good and appealing pitch that can attract some of them back to you. You can set your goal for weekly client outreach then target them one by one.

There is more; How to Run your Web Development Business effectively and how you can scale up your business, for that visit our original post on our website.