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No offence, but those sites don't seem any better than what you can do through Shopify, PrestaShop of Wordpress. I really don't know how people are willing to pay $8k for something you can quite easily achieve by even hiring help from websites like Fiverr.
This is an example of a $350 Shopify theme. Customizing the template is fairly simple to your needs and the administrative panel makes is very easy for someone not technical to set up stock and manage orders.
Not to sound negative and I applaud you for finding business, but what makes your business attractive compared to all the options out there?
Most business owners know fuckall about fiverr and websites.
You NEVER sell on price. If a person is that price conscious, they are not a viable prospect and you move on.
There are oodles of companies paying that much.
That website comes up a LOT LOT LOT slower than /u/Citrous_Oyster's website.
Because there are other intangibles that people want that have nothing to do with price at all.
Most people don't purchase a business product or service until there are at least 7 communications with them. That's standard. It takes a lot of work to earn someone's trust. The way /u/Citrous_Oyster builds trust is his complete and total domination of the thing he excels at, which is static websites that come up in less than a second. His website that has a lot of valuable content. And trust is just one part of intangibles that businesses want. Maybe they just want someone who lives in the same city because they want to make sure they can directly talk to the website designer. Maybe that's not important to you, but you are not them.
I talk to prospects a lot. If we have a series of long conversations, and he or she is serious, at some point in the conversation, I'll send them a thank you card with a Starbucks card worth $10, and the note states that whether they use my services or not, I appreciate all their time they've spent. I can't begin to tell you how many sales that has closed. Why? Because it shows I care for them as a person. I send out birthday cards, anniversary cards, congratulations cards if I have that information. It shows I care, and I actually do. Sure, I want their business, but if I don't get it, that's fine, not getting business is part of the sales funnel. Not everyone is going to buy from you. But people VALUE when I send out personal touches, they WANT to be liked, and to be valued as people. Who doesn't?
Never compete on price, never.
Good luck with this attitude. I love how the "secret" is to act entitled to your price, as if that's everyone else's problem instead of the market telling you you're over-priced or your product isn't that valuable, etc.
Guy above you is right; it looks like a basic website. The only person that's going to pay out the ass is the person that can be convinced they need to/have no clue they're getting taken for a ride by someone convinced their own product is worth that price, etc.
I'm not saying to try to sell a website for $20 million.
However, I've actually sold websites for $3K+. This is not theory.
If you want to create websites like they do in Pakistan and want to charge $50, because that's what Pakistanis can do, hey, knock yourself out. You can make up for the low price by selling in volume.