Accessibility Specialist. I focus on ensuring content created, events held and company assets are as accessible as possible, for as many people as possible.
Look in your local area for sites in a particular industry you have reasonable knowledge of, for example if you are into fitness look for personal trainers and gyms.
Then search Google for "personal trainers" in "your city / region".
Analyse their sites and see where you think you can help them and pick out 20 people to contact.
Then, (and this will shock you), pick up the phone and call them, let them know what problems you have come across and how you think you can help.
Don't be pushy, just explain the issues and see if they need help fixing them.
If you do that every day (call 20 local businesses) for a month you will have plenty of work!
Also if there are any business networking groups near you then join them (borrow the members fee if you don't have the money!) and practice explaining what you do and (more importantly) what problems you can help business owners solve.
Although it takes a little longer to build connections this way you will certainly find people will start referring you as you get to know them.
Last tip: look for businesses that have the same clients but do not compete. A prime example would be a computer repair shop or an accountancy firm. See if you can partner with them and offer referral fees (if appropriate, in the UK accountants struggle to take referral fees so I offer to give the money to charity on their behalf for example).
With those 3 things you can easily get plenty of work! Good luck, you can do it! ❤
Be careful how you spin this, calling out problems on a potential clients website can make them defensive, especially if they like what they have, it might be relatively new fx. :)
Look for things that can create business value for the client, fx. if we move this button then UX research shows it should have a positive impact on sales/conversion.
Or fx. i found that your site loads slower than what is recommended, if we improve that it should have a positive impact on conversion, and being found in google.
Explain it as something that brings business value for the client. :)
Look in your local area for sites in a particular industry you have reasonable knowledge of, for example if you are into fitness look for personal trainers and gyms.
Then search Google for "personal trainers" in "your city / region".
Analyse their sites and see where you think you can help them and pick out 20 people to contact.
Then, (and this will shock you), pick up the phone and call them, let them know what problems you have come across and how you think you can help.
Don't be pushy, just explain the issues and see if they need help fixing them.
If you do that every day (call 20 local businesses) for a month you will have plenty of work!
Also if there are any business networking groups near you then join them (borrow the members fee if you don't have the money!) and practice explaining what you do and (more importantly) what problems you can help business owners solve.
Although it takes a little longer to build connections this way you will certainly find people will start referring you as you get to know them.
Last tip: look for businesses that have the same clients but do not compete. A prime example would be a computer repair shop or an accountancy firm. See if you can partner with them and offer referral fees (if appropriate, in the UK accountants struggle to take referral fees so I offer to give the money to charity on their behalf for example).
With those 3 things you can easily get plenty of work! Good luck, you can do it! ❤
Be careful how you spin this, calling out problems on a potential clients website can make them defensive, especially if they like what they have, it might be relatively new fx. :)
Look for things that can create business value for the client, fx. if we move this button then UX research shows it should have a positive impact on sales/conversion.
Or fx. i found that your site loads slower than what is recommended, if we improve that it should have a positive impact on conversion, and being found in google.
Explain it as something that brings business value for the client. :)
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