How to Get Clients

A Guide to Getting Clients with Puno

Timestamps:

01:07 Tips from Chloe about finishing the course

03:07 Puno & Chloe talk about choosing & finding fonts

06:45 Choe and Puno talk about her finding her first project after the course

07:32 Puno talks about how to get clients

08:10 Numbers game: Not one trick solution

09:40 Finding bravery + handling rejection and overthinking

10:06 Decide what kind of clients do you want? What kind of websites do you want to build?

10:57 Check out Squarespace Template topics: Who even buys Squarespace sites in the first place? Niching down.

14:55 What's your current design style? What types of sites and people want this design style? How can your design aesthetic attract the work you're wanting? What is it the client wants?

16:58 What's out there right now that people are wanting?

17:41 What are your current strengths? There's so many different ways that you can sell yourself.

19:59 Who's in your current network?

20:26 Your spec work & portfolio.

21:22 Level 4: Runway & Do the Math: knowing your personal finances.

26:45 Knowing how hard you need to work

27:33 Tried and true ways to get clients

29:19 Help, I accidentally undercharged!

29:54 Puno asks students: Who was your first client and how did you get them?

31:41 Job #1, Job #2, and Job #3

33:26 Networking: How to Talk to Strangers

40:33 Finding peers & subcontracting

43:49 What is spec work?

44:53 Your Word of Mouth Angels 😇

48:41 Cold Emailing & DMs?

50:02 What about Fiverr and Upwork?

52:31 Referrals

54:33 Things you SHOULDN'T do when looking for clients?

57:06 Recurring work?

58:30 Quarterly & End of Year Audits: Where are your leads & clients coming from?

01:01:03 A client who threatened to get their lawyer involved

01:06:39 Squarespace projects or other projects?

01:09:28 Locking in clients