Bad approach to web design agency

This is how-not-to make the first contact with a web design agency:

1. Promise more work later on, as a compensation for limited budget
2. Copy and paste response e-mail to competing agencies and forget to change the recipients name
3. Offer a share in a project
4. Not having budget at all

Promise more work later on

Instead of planning future projects and future marketing and future additions to the current project, it’s better to focus on doing what you do right now. And do it the best you can. If your current task is to create the best possible web site, then you better create the best possible web site.

If your budget is limited, do the single best thing that fits your money. A single feature done right is way better than fully featured nonsense.

Forget recipients name

This is obvious. For starters, stop copy/paste your e-mails.

Next, don’t collect proposals from many different agencies all at the same time. We are in custom tailored service business, not mass production. Many Most of us don’t copy and paste web sites, so we can’t provide you with a discount based on lower production costs.

If you’re looking for the cheapest option, go grab some templates.

Offer a share

Would you share your house with a tiler or carpenter who built it?

Shares only make sense if the project is something that attracts that particular agency or freelancer in contexts other than merely building a web site. If they find the project interesting, they will usually offer to do it for alternative kinds of compensation.

Not having money, only great ideas

If you don’t have money, earn it. Earning money actually helps. It puts you in reality perspective. Working (instead of dreaming) usually allows some room to rethink your next revolutionary idea.