Most clients are busy people and overhauling their website is a chore.
Stress: The effort we put into our website directly affects the bottomline of the business.
Initial meeting goals:
Understand the purpose of the website
Special needs of the website
What pages we need to make
Vibe of the website
Collaborate on the Hi-Five Conversion Formula
Ask the golden question: When someone comes to your website, what do you want them to do?
Three uses of a website:
Buy
Schedule and appointment
Subscribe
Come to the meeting prepared with three different websites of similar businesses in their space. Then let them go through what they do and don’t want in the sites.
Keep all meeting notes in a shared Google Drive with the client.
Design
Use Figma to create an initial design of the website.
Only when both you and the client are in love with the mockups will you only move on to developing.
Development
All your client wants is an awesome website. They don’t care how you get there.
For most projects: Wix
For custom: React and Tailwind CSS for frontend and AWS Amplify for backend
After building, test it thoroughly.
Demo the website to the client.
Do necessary changes.
Once both of you are happy, deploy.
Payment
Reference: Clock Work by Mike Michalowicz
Give 15% discount if they are willing to pay upfront. Just add 15% to what you want in the beginning.