 What's up, world? What's up, Elementor users? Future web designers? Current web designers? Anyone that's trying to build a business as a web designer. So one of the things I want to bring up is about using Facebook to get clients and grow your business. And the reason I'm bringing this up is because I'm on a lot of, I wouldn't say a lot. I'm on some web design Facebook groups. And often we see in this groups, somebody will post, hey, I'm looking for a web designer. And usually these posts are, they're followed by like a couple dozen people saying like, hey, I sent you a PM, I sent you a DM, or here's our portfolio, we'd be happy to work with you. Well, I'm really curious. I like to know what like other web designers are working with. Plus, I'm also looking for experience and talent. A lot of the times, sometimes we're hiring for web designers. So what I do usually, the first thing I do is I go to the profile. And one thing I noticed throughout that, that with many, many, many freelancers offering to do web design work, there's nothing indicating their web designer. There's nothing. It's like it's a hidden secret identity. Like, you should be shouting this out to the world. I'm a web designer. I would love to build your website. This is what I do. But it's not always like that. And, you know, one of the most common questions to be hearing like when I used to ask is, how do we find more clients? How do I get more clients and more projects? But the real thing is a real question to ask yourself is how do clients find you? So I want to discuss three ways to use Facebook to get more clients and to get more business. Three things you should be doing with Facebook right now and should start right away. That's going to help you become discoverable. Help to let it be known that you're a web designer and this is what you do. Number one, your bio. Your bio should just tell the world, this is me. I'm a web designer. This is my freelance company. This is my agency. This is a link to our website. This is our other social media. Like your bio should shout out, I am a web designer and this is what I do. I mean, usually when we start off in web design, most of our clients that come from referrals, networking, just like people we meet randomly or go out to actually meet people and friends and family. So I don't understand why it's hidden. Now, I get it. Some people want super secretive lives on Facebook, but once you become a web designer, you're working in the online world. Unless if you have a straight up psycho ex app, it will murder you if they find you. Or if you're wanted for some crime and you will get locked up by posting your web designer on your bio, then by all means, keep it secret. Keep it a secret hidden identity. But really, you should let people know, especially, I mean, your friends and family. I mean, you could be the go to guy. You know, you could be the go to a web person. When somebody says, Hey, we need a website built. Do you know anyone? Oh, so and so does it because they know that's what you do. So this is all the things that you should have in your bio. I mean, first off, put down in there your current job, you know, web designer, web developer, second one, create a Facebook page, which we're going to go into in the next one. But you know, you should have a Facebook business page with either the name of your if your agency or a view of whatever your business is, your business thing, right there that can link to it. You should also have like other social media links like to your LinkedIn, to your Instagram, like other links that link out showing this is what you do dribble, be hands, Pinterest, any of these, you know, so optimize your, your bio, make it be known. You're a web designer. This is what you do and you would love to help somebody build their website. All right. Number two, and I told you, we're going to come back to this and that is building your business page, your Facebook business page. You don't have to have a huge agency or even a small agency. If it's just you freelancing, you should still have a Facebook business page. Give yourself a name, give your page a name. And don't just make the page, but take time on it. Like really put some care and love into it. Like just go out and look at some other agencies, look at other people's business pages. And when you see the ones that you like, ones that are like really clean and easy to understand, you know, build yours out like it. It does take time to set up and it takes a lot of care. A lot of times I will see designers and they will have the business page. Like, oh, great. And, you know, so for me, this is my journey. I see somebody looking to do web design work. I go to the bio. And if they do have a business page in there, I'll click on the business page or link to the website. That was another one I missed out on the first one. A link to your website. Throw a link to your website in your bio for sure. But a lot of times I'll see on the Facebook business page that it's blank, you know, it's blank. There's not really an image there for for the banner or the image is poor quality. There's no information in there. It just looks like a page was made but not built. So take time to build it like take time to really go through it spend a couple days on it like nurture it go through every little section get to really know it make sure there's nothing left that hasn't been unturned or touched and watch some YouTube videos like learn about it watch watch like five or six videos and you'll understand it a little bit better. And then once you have a built stay active on it. A good a good practice to follow would be like one post per week. Now you can make that post maybe some of your work like one of the websites you build, you can make it a design that you made, or you can make it like an article related to web design and what you do that you find helpful for someone and you can use a tool like buffer and schedule it out but one post per week. Keep on top of it. It shows that you're running a business and that's what we like to see that's what clients want to see they'll feel confident with somebody that they see running a business. All right last one number three and this is the big one right now this is the hot one right now this is probably one of the biggest opportunities you can find right now and that is being involved in Facebook groups related to web design and what you do. Now this is where we do things for elementary users so most likely most people watching this are already in the elementary group and I can guarantee anybody inside the elementary community group which has like I don't know like 60-80,000 people in it they're going to know a handful of people in it. There's a handful of people that we all know in it because they're super involved and one person in there that's just crushing it is this girl Zoe she is just crushing it on there and she just keeps showing her work showing what she's built showing what she could do with it and I can tell you one thing when I'm ready to hire somebody if I need somebody just for elementary I'm going to go to her first like she's a person that I would go to if I have a project that is it is like we need like you know the right person somebody really good on it and that's because she put herself out there and that goes for a lot of people I'm just using her as an example because I just think this girl's crushing it right now but there's so much opportunity out there. I would suggest just stick into like two or three groups groups that you feel that are active that you enjoy being in and just being involved in them you know keep it positive don't don't be a troll or be you know don't be a douche about like you know your answers and stuff or be a dick about things like like actually be helpful positive be in there to be of service don't be in there trying to get clients be in there to help out and just get involved and stay involved you know answer questions posting show your work in there and just like do things that you feel are going to help others that's the key right there it's helping others when you're in the zone and you're just helping others whether it's answering questions whether it's creating content whether it's just trying to inspire others like what that's going to do is it's going to like build this thing around you you're going to put yourself up there and you're going to be looked at and people like people like this like we do we like people who are helpful they're positive because they bring that good energy they bring the good value into it and we all have that opportunity look at you don't have to be like super knowledgeable you don't have to be like you know been a web designer running an agency building 20 000 our websites and doing that for years you simply could just give back what you've been learning like if you're watching this right now hopefully you're learning something from it before you know if you asked me to do this two years ago I wouldn't have been able to do this right here because I still did not know these things yet I had to learn these myself and then I had to apply them and then after I applied them I started seeing results coming from them now I'm able to share them and I just hope I can share them and it helps out and here's the thing like I love being inside this process because I'm 100% self-taught I came from a construction uh a background nothing techno nothing with no technology no computers I didn't even have Wi-Fi in my house like it was crazy I was like a dinosaur in the stone age but I became self-taught I fell in love with with uh building websites and then I just kept wanting to get better and better at it and I wanted to do better for clients and like actually deliver results and it's it's from learning from others from uh YouTube people putting out content and videos uh learning from Facebook groups and other groups uh and just learning from articles and what I found out is the people I'm learning from are just doing the same thing now that are what I'm doing they learned it they shared it they gave it back uh and this right now is the biggest opportunity if you want to grow your business and if you are looking to get more clients because it takes time but you keep doing it the clients start to come to you you don't have to go chasing them I hope this helps out it's only three things you gotta do on Facebook there's other areas uh to focus on too to help you get discoverable and clients find you we'll talk about those on other videos that's it for tonight all right cheers peace