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skill issue

Maybe you're just not very good at it

I‘m sorry is this supposed to be a joke that I don’t get? Or are you seriously advertising webdesign services with a website straight out of 1998 that doesn’t even work right on mobile?

Hi, I hear your pain and struggle. You seem to be in a very tough position financially and mentally. First of all, get a big hug from you (I'm a hugger). Can I ask you what you're passionate about in the jobs and businesses that you run? I believe that having a passion for what you do is one of the most important things when running a business. Your customers will smell when you're not passionate about it and will run away.

To your questions:

1. The pricing. I don't even know yet what you're selling me. You seem to be selling a product (the website) instead of results that I get from paying you (e.g. ease of mind, constant influx of customers, etc.). So if you're not clear about your value proposition, sit down and figure this out first. Before that, you don't need to do anything else because they will only waste your time and money.
2. On the websites: My honest answer is that I wouldn't hire you if that is your best work.
   1. The design is completely outdated. My eyes are offended, and I don't know where to look. Things are hard to read, and images are in a bad resolution so everything is pixelated on my screen.
   2. Spacing and wireframe aid in my confusion, as they don't lead me through the page. I recommend learning the basics of UI/UX design before offering this as a product. Start with things like the Gestalt Principles, and the 60/30/10 rule of color palettes.
   3. Way too much text. Why do I need to read so much to understand what you're offering? Be clear, precise, and concise in your copywriting. "If you confuse you lose." Make it as easy for me as you can to say yes to whatever you're offering.
   4. No clear CTAs (call to action): you got a button in the hero section...that is not recognizable as such. Follow the design principle of affordance. Something needs to look like I can do the action with it that I want to do (e.g. a button looks like you can press it).

My recommendations in general are:

• Figure out what your vision for your life is.
• If you know that, think of ways how to achieve this vision.
• Then create an action plan in detail that leads you towards your vision and execute it.
• Find someone who did what you want to do and learn from them. u/General-Lobster-4837 recommended Alex Hormozi for example. If your goal is to build businesses with the sole purpose of returning more money and getting very rich, this is a great spot to start. If your vision is another one find someone that aligns with your vision.
• Learn everything you can about the path you chose and that can help you reach your goal faster. Learning is a thing you do for your whole life not just when you're young. It is awesome that you reach out to this community to improve on what you're doing. You're doing great!

I'm open to chatting more if you'd like to get more input. :)

Forget offering any service. Sounds like you have experience and knowledge. Sell that. A course - teach people what you know or how to do what you do. Maybe a paid newsletter. Sounds like you’re passionate about what you did/ do. Turn that into something people will buy. Then nobody can race you to bottom on price because nobody can offer what you can.

Honestly, and I say this respectfully, I think it's a little too late to the game.. your sites use outdated formats and code. Nowadays it's all about frameworks like Laravel, codeignitor, vue.js, etc with dynamic view frameworks like bootstrap

Past this I don't think anyone is going to pay a monthly subscription like that for SEO when people sell SEO for a onetime flat fee of usually dirt cheap (whether it works or not). Also, SEO is only half of the battle nowadays. Gone are the days where you'd rank high with the right keywords... It's more than that like engagement/clicks, and even payments to Google ads or whomever you want to be high on

I'm sorry I just wanted to be honest about this

There is money to be made in buying and selling domain names though, unfortunately that's also out the window as most places snatch and hold for over $1,500+ that people just aren't gonna pay...

Market research is key tbh. Find the thing that people would want. Maybe there's a deficit for something. Also, the location is really important.

Your websites aren't showing very well in mobile (this is crucial), but besides something which can be fixed, I'm not clear on the first part of your post concerning your woodwork and design business... are you going to sell the company or wanting to sell it now?

Get rid of the .html extension. Also, your homepage does not give confidence, it looks very outdated and more like a blog than an actual homepage. Best of luck

Serious people make serious posts

You're not a serious person

I'm not here for a debate, just giving you a wake up call

Some observations to show I'm serious:

First. Your title has nothing to do with your post and starts things off with a negative attitude. If you wanted more effective feedback, you would write the question right from the start and would have a more welcoming or positive title. It suggests a lack of maturity and perhaps a sense of entitled thinking and / or an inability the changes. But most importantly, someone reading this has to hunt through the post to begin to figure out what you are asking help about. Wading through a bunch of nonsense and complaints to get to some odd question about pricing. And then random questions about your service in general. And to be clear, it's confusing to read.

Second. If you want to be a good entrepreneur and successful at soliciting feedback, you need to spend time thinking through how you are going to organize it. I would spend 2-4 hours if necessary to make something look professional or clear to an audience that I thought I could get good feedback from; for free even. I would write an outline and then draft out something. Then I would wait a day and review what I wrote and edited it a couple of times; potentially adding or removing things. Then I would give that draft to several others to take a look at first to make sure it was clear and concise. After that I would incorporate their feedback and then review it one more time before posting it. That's what a serious person would do. Instead you post a stream of conscious thing that is cluttered and all over the place. If I were a potential customer, I wouldn't take you seriously unless I absolutely needed your products and there was no other companies providing the service or there were no substitutes for the products or services you sold.

I hope you take this feedback as honest criticisms that you can use to improve yourself. Good luck.

You know why you're getting hate on the website.

Your site is a wall of text, I'm not reading all that bro. Make it interactive add more pics, you're advertising kitchen remodels right. Shouldn't the website be elegant so you get higher end clients? If your site looks like it hasn't been updated since 98 then your equipment probably hasn't been updated either. I'll pass.

I would not pay 10 bucks for a design like that.

Hey, while im not in need of your services, I hear what you’re saying.

This was me in a way, peaked at 27 staff.

And, to compound the issues, I’d added a bunch of services to attract more business due to financial struggle.

I was always putting out fires, while poorly handling the stress this created.

What moved the needle for me?

Going deep into systems and processes.

I began looking at how we delivered our service and realized we were more inefficient than I realized.

So I just focused on the core services that made the bulk of revenue and took the rest of our services down. Then as a team, we looked at ways to systemize various parts of our value delivery.

And there were many. For example, we began eliminating meetings for meetings sake.

By getting granular in our SOP’s we found a lot of what we were doing was hard work, not smart work.

Anyway, once we got our systems dialed in, we took off.

Hope this provides at least a little hope and encouragement.

The website truly looks like it was created in 1996 and never updated since. Just being honest.

You cannot sell sites with broken mobile design. On android scroll down the page some and you will see sections that are off screen.

$250/month and you would need a premium solution that solves a problem.

You could focus on using a platform that does most of the work for you and provides more profit instead of what you're doing now.

I’m not entirely sure what your ask is in this post. I’m sorry to say but as a business owner your designs aren’t up to modern standards. If I were in the market for web designers I’d spend about 5 seconds on your site before moving on. Others are echoing the same sentiment so maybe take a good hard look at what’s going on.

Learn wordpress and elementor. Also Woocommerce. You will be able to build way better looking sites. Also learn how to optimize them for speed and you're set.

You need to improve your skills!

The site looks good and great examples.

The only issue is, webdevs are pretty common now, and a lot of them are fighting for work.

If you're good at running small businesses (I had the EXACT SAME EXPERIENCE with employees: I'd do a 12 hr day THEN have to clean up after their destruction!), then research what small businesses are in high demand. I ended up getting into in-home tech support for seniors, which mostly involves password resets and removal of Fake Rental WiFi. I have a feeling you could handle that, and the market is vastly under-served. Feel free to pick my brain about it!

For less than $250 a month i can just use webflow or readymag and do it all myself... better.

Awful awful websites. Yuk. even a free template would look better.

You can not win me as a client, looking for design services for a kitchen when you can't even pick a nicely designed website template.

Do us all a favour and remove those eye sores from the web, just use https://readymag.com

I would have absolutely 0 confidence in you building a professional looking website that converts customers. The designs are awful, and you clearly aren’t converting if you can’t sell. Perhaps reevaluate your skill set?

I hope I don't encounter this that I see many people post where the business grows but they actually start earning less with added stress :(

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