Lay off the web design and focus on photography or smaller wood working offerings.
Make a mobile-first 1-page multi-section website with something like WordPress or wix because users know how to navigate those types of sites - and it’s all about the user experience, not your ability to code.
Market yourself at wedding events. Build relationships with local schools and churches for their yearbooks and directories. Promote birthday photos at daycare and after-school places. Heck, even offer pet photography.
The point is to find a niche where your services can shine, instead of drowning in competition in the quickly changing market of web design and AI-driven SEO/content.
Or… Maybe the heavy lifting you used to do in woodworking could be mitigated by using your woodworking skills in a smaller form. Folk where I’m at are making a killing sanding down found wood into table tops or benches and filling the natural cracks with colored resin.
Cabinet Doors are also a big market, customers don’t have to tear out and replace the entire cabinet, instead they get new cabinet doors which are much more affordable for them - whether it’s painted, resin, wood-burned designs, added wooden embellishments, etc. You could even offer modular options to fit on standard IKEA bookshelves and cabinets so folk can customize their furniture and you can keep your costs down due to its modular nature.
Lay off the web design and focus on photography or smaller wood working offerings.
Make a mobile-first 1-page multi-section website with something like WordPress or wix because users know how to navigate those types of sites - and it’s all about the user experience, not your ability to code.
Market yourself at wedding events. Build relationships with local schools and churches for their yearbooks and directories. Promote birthday photos at daycare and after-school places. Heck, even offer pet photography.
The point is to find a niche where your services can shine, instead of drowning in competition in the quickly changing market of web design and AI-driven SEO/content.
Or… Maybe the heavy lifting you used to do in woodworking could be mitigated by using your woodworking skills in a smaller form. Folk where I’m at are making a killing sanding down found wood into table tops or benches and filling the natural cracks with colored resin.
Cabinet Doors are also a big market, customers don’t have to tear out and replace the entire cabinet, instead they get new cabinet doors which are much more affordable for them - whether it’s painted, resin, wood-burned designs, added wooden embellishments, etc. You could even offer modular options to fit on standard IKEA bookshelves and cabinets so folk can customize their furniture and you can keep your costs down due to its modular nature.