Running A Web Design Business From Home: How To Find and Keep Good Clients and Make Money with Your Home Business

I voted "It's okay" because the marketing advice in this book (and marketing is EVERYTHING for a freelancer) is entirely based upon Mr. Cubbon's recommendation to blog. I was disappointed in the book for this reason -its narrow approach to marketing.The mantra of "only" marketing online almost completely saturates the how-to articles, advice and books that are published on freelancing today. It's advice that you hear literally everywhere. And the advice to blog will not work well for someone who simply doesn't like to write. Lastly, blogging alone to develop clientele isn't enough. You need a good sense of what to blog about, superb social media skills, and a lot of ideas for articles.Web design business is, for a startup web design shop, highly local. Your first clients will probably be people and businesses already known to you. And there are many marketing techniques that are open to local businesses that don't require a process of generating content marketing. They are cold calling, direct mail, drop in visits to businesses, to name a few. Mr Cubbon does mention business networking groups like BNI as an aside, but networking also happens as a by product of just knowing people in your community.I have witnessed successful independent web design shops run by folks who seem to have absolutely no interest in content. (I know of one small but successful web designer whose blog is a collection of links to business magazine articles. I don't recommend that, but on the other hand this is saying that the skill set to be a successful freelance web designer has little to do with writing aptitude.)I removed my last review of this book because the conversation between me and Mr. Cubbon turned into an advice session for my blogging activity. For this review the focus needs to be kept on this book.

There are many examples where author suggest some best tips to run a successful webdesign business , I like-**“Is what I’m doing right now getting me where I want to go?”**People will contact you wanting a website but 9 times out of 10 they won’t have thought about SEO, social media, a blog and sometimes even content. You need to offer as many of these services as possible.** How to make your plans as SMART as possible – that is specific, measureable, achievable, realistic and timely.**Why free don't work-“this won’t take you long”, “if you do this for free there’s a guarantee of future work” or “can you write a proposal on how to improve these 4 websites”.**Even though, as I say, not all clients are created equally, I always treat everyone with the same respect and politeness. This is because, I believe, I am a brand. Everything I do reflects on my reputation and my business.**Never use words like “difficult”, “delay”, “complicated”.If we want to run a web business and creating some best passive income, must read this book.. It's a Jam.

I like this book for its practicality and insights on how to create and to maintain relationships with your clients, and to meet as many of their needs as you can. It's very pleasant to read and I found it helpful to hear first-hand how Rob created his business, what decisions he made regarding his focus, and why.Update: Quite a few months later, I'm closer to being ready to open a little Web shop. Upon revisiting this book and also Rob's "Create The Website You Want With WordPress" I am reminded it's a complete Go To book for all the details of running your Web design business. Rob has written out the best working and customer procedures, warns not to work cheap and offers many other insightful tips. Rob has packed his books with what you need to do what he has done. Which he has indeed done, so I think it's nuts not to by this book if you want to open a Web design shop.

Rob Cubbons is such an amazing man. Not only is he brilliant and successful, he truly cares about other people. This is just another of his successful endeavors to mentor others and help them avoid the pitfalls of frustration and discouragement. In this book he guides you on a journey to becoming a successful home based web designer. He teaches you step by step with the methods that he has personally used. This book covers absolutely everything. I could brag all day about this awesome author and man, but as you can clearly see others have already beaten me to the punch. I highly recommend this book, as well as all of his other books and courses too.Whenever you see the name, Rob Cubbons, you can rest assured that you will be gaining high quality, expert guidance and honest caring.

Better than any webinar or 3-day conference on how to start a business, Rob Cubbon has given us an in-depth look at how you can start, and grow, a web design business from anywhere. With clear direction, Rob has avoided all the hype and hysteria that accompanies so many "How To" books by mapping out how to start, grow, and maintain a web design business. I've been a web designer for over 20 years and this information is dead on. Follow it, and you will be well on your way to success. Don't waste your time, or money, on webinars or conferences when you can have everything you need to know in a lovely, compact book you can turn to time and again.

I'm halfway through this book and I am learning a lot! I've been a designer for a long time...I've got that down. But I've never been great at running the business, and that's where this book fills the gap. It's obvious that Rob has a lot of valuable, real-world wisdom to share. This book is making me think about what I am doing as a business...and not simply a designer. I can tell that the lessons learned in this book are going to pay big dividends down the road.Highly recommend.

Easy to follow with clickable, live links for further help and information. They cover both mac and windows based systems.

Amazing intro book to get you start and an idea of what to expect on your new (or continuous) journey. Highly recommend!

This booklet is an easy read that gives good advice on how to set up and run an online web design business. Simple and practical, and the author comes across as genuine.

Everyone who wants to be a web designer and make it into a small business has to start somewhere. Rob Cubbon takes the time to explain what you need to do to get your web business off the ground. Rob is an entrepreneur and relates things to how he runs his own web design business.

Great info to complement all your UDEMY courses and not just scratch for business and odd jobs...

A lot of valuable information for those starting out in the web design business. I found myself taking lots of key notes to implement in my business.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book as it did not over complicate the process of running a web design business from home and is full of solid, easy to follow advice.