Shais Ahmad

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Ep 7

How To Get Your First Clients

Lead Generation

October 31, 2022

For Episode 7, my guest is Shais Ahmad, the founder of Pristine Digital. In 400 days, he has grown an agency and now has 5 employees, 20 monthly clients and 8K monthly income.As with anyone that grows fast though, Shais has made mistakes along the way. These failures were almost catastrophic for Shais but he managed to learn from them quickly and get back on track.The important lesson from this is episode is that in Shais' experience, cold emailing less effective than freelancer platforms. A lot of people start by cold emailing people to try and get their first client.

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The part of this episode that stood out to me was about cold outreach. Do you ever respond to cold outreach? Probably not. As Shais mentions, neither does the potential client your emailing. Instead, put time in to practicing the craft. Ensure you have 3 great sites that you can show potential clients. You can even make these cloneables and share them on Webflow which may get you some attention.Then, go to freelancer platforms and find clients that are already looking for you. Bark, Upwork, Yuno Juno.

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The failures we talk about in this episode are:

1) Rejecting projects due to internal values and hence you missed out on money

2) Getting sued by one of your first clients at the tender age of 17

3) Being constantly rejected for being "too young"

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CONNECT WITH SHAIS📬

See his website: https://www.pristinedigital.co.uk/🐦

Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShaisOfficial📸

Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shais-ahmad/

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