What types of websites do you build for more than $5,000?
What do you charge for monthly maintenance?
How do you advertise/get clients?
How did you start out your business?
Other people that don’t fit the criteria feel free to chime in about your business as well.
Yes. Getting new business is a sales pitch.
For sure.
You can’t read my mind. Of course I do it for gain. The person who awards me their business knows this. They are not stupid. They are not going to get fooled. My sister and her husband just got a thousand dollar gift card from their real estate agent because they had him sell our relative’s home. My sister and brother-in-law and I, and everyone else in our family know that he did this to get more business for himself. My sis and brother-in-law are not dumb. But here is the thing: they say this is super smart way for him to get more business. They love it. He also goes above and beyond to help them with issues, far beyond other realtors. But they have a good relationship with him.
What you are saying is so idiotic. It’s like going into a diner every morning and the whole staff knows you, and you all laugh and have fun every morning, and say that the waitress and staff are reptiles and do not like you at all and only doing it for the money and pretending to like you. That is so wrong as to be insane. People can have friendships, real friendships, with their clients, while sure, they still want to get paid and get a tip.
No. That’s completely backwards. Care goes two ways. A client knows that I have to pay rent and food, etc. They have to pay for their services from others to make their business go.
The only reason they would want me to lower the price like that is if they were exceptionally bad at running a business and can’t afford to buy things. A successful businessperson who makes a lot of money can afford it.
Those businessmen and women also know that relationships are very important. I’ve talked to business owners who have used the same vendor for 3 generations. They don’t even look at other companies, because the relationship is more important than pure price. I’m not saying that they would pay $25,000 for something that costs $5. But they would pay thousands of dollars per year more, because of their relationship.
You are making it all about money, as if nothing else matters.
But maybe you work in ecommerce where everything is transactional, and you have no contact with the end customer. Yes, then delivering for the lowest price might be ok. But people pay more for all kinds of reasons. Brand being one of them.
And in service businesses, the relationship is everything. When I say I care and want the cuistomer to do well, I’m NOT saying that I want them to adopt me or give me their daughter’s hand in marriage. That said, I do care about people I work with. Believe what you will.
It really sounds like you are a bitter person, who does not have friends so everything comes down to transactions. Where people are just objects. There are people like that. They are called sociopaths.