What you should NEVER do to get your first 100 clients is to pay your way to get them. That is the last thing you want to do, trust me. Getting 100 clients by spending money on pay per click ads or something similar would cost you about $10,000 USD. Who has that kind of money? Even if you do, you would only be drudging down the FAILURE road if you were to spend that kind of money unnecessarily.

People get money when they work or exchange something for cash, moolah, paper with big numbers on it? The harder they work the more money they get. That’s common sense! Here is a sunshine moment for you to ponder:

Money = Hard Work + Time

You can always replace money with a lot of hard work plus the time needed to generate the same outcome which you can get by spending money.

Think about that. Let it sink in.

So, if I say to you, it would require $10,000 USD to get your first 100 clients for your web business, I can also say to you that it would require you 6-12 months of hard work to get your first 100 clients with $0 money spent on advertising.

By hard work, I mean HARD WORK! I hope I did not shatter your dreams to pieces through this moment of truth. Look at the bright side. It requires no money upfront, well maybe some to pay for your electrical bill, a lot of coffee, and of course your internet connection.

The most important factor is T I M E, don’t rush into it and don’t give up too soon. If you put your hard work into your web business for the next two years, I can say with confidence that you will see money tree in the third year of your business and you should be able to quit whatever else you are doing and just focus on your web business.

Here is where you come in. You must help out your clients personally, truly helping them with what they need. It’s the only asset you can give that no large web business can do. It’s your ultimate weapon.

Here are a few very important factors that you can use for your own company website. I come up with these suggestions from my own experiences in doing research and development of my own company site. If you follow the guides below, it will save you a lot of time trying different kinds of websites or changing your website pages to find out what works and what doesn’t work.

Always make your website clean and simple. Do not overwhelm your website visitors with too much information. Providing too much information on your front page will confuse a lot of people.

Always provide your web products and services that you offer right on your website front page, complete with basic information and an order button or link where visitors can find more details about each item you provide.

Do NOT use flash on your home page. Use simple static pages with nonmoving or flashy elements on your website.

Provide noticeable contact information, a phone number is a must, even if it goes to your voice mail.

Have a favicon installed on all your website pages.

When you have enough client testimonials, put a noticeable client testimonials button or feedback button on your front page linking to your full client testimonials or guestbook page. Make it easy and obvious how visitors can leave comments or post a comment to your guestbook. For help on this, visit IdealGuestbook.com

Relate your web pages to your client’s personality, even when doing special promotion.

Do a search on Google for “top keywords” which will show you a list of similar sites. Go to each of the websites listed there. Simply go through each of these large web sites and see what kind of information they present on their front page.

Make sure your website content is professionally copy edited especially when you are a non native English speaker. Having a poorly written website content turns off all prospective clients from the English speaking countries. That is the last thing you want because most of web hosting clients come from English speaking countries.

Author Bio: Alexandria Marx is an advertising copywriting, author, web designer and Internet marketer. She provides creative business services for startups, and mentors small business people. If you enjoyed this article, visit her website for more information on how to get 100 clients for your web business. © 2010. Alexandria Marx. All rights reserved.

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