- Course Overview
- Join our community on Slack!
- The Sprintkick story
- Seven reasons to start a web development business
- How to add development services to an already existing business
- Who this course is for
- Section 1 Review Material
- Review sheets & resources - all in one PDF
- Understanding the development stack
- How to pick a stack
- The startup timeline
- How does this work as a programmer / non programmer?
- How do development firms typically work?
- Build yourself or subcontract?
- In-house hiring or out-of-house?
- Section 2 Review Material
- Good - Fast - Cheap
- Planning for the grind
- To niche or not to niche
- Types of subcontractors
- In-country or out-of-country?
- Section 3 Review Material
- Focus on 80/20 solutions for web presence
- Looking at other studios Part 1
- Looking at other studios Part 2
- Finding a template on TemplateMonster
- Finding a template on themeforest
- Selecting a name
- Advanced: Upgrading your presence with custom design
- Section 4 Review Material
- Where to find subcontractors
- What makes a good long term partner?
- Intro to Elance Part 1
- Intro to Elance Part 2
- Intro to UpWork Part 1
- Intro to UpWork Part 2
- Intro to Freelancer
- Finding freelancers elsewhere
- Section 5 Review Material
- Building portfolios upfront
- Use these tricks to grow your portfolio faster
- Thoughts about portfolios
- Buying testimonials and case studies with catchafire
- Section 6 Review Material
- Strategy: Email scrape and blast
- Strategy: Offer adjacent services to those trying to hire in house
- Strategy: Discount offers to groups
- Strategy: Use your affiliations
- Strategy: Tag your work
- Strategy: Selling things that require maintenance
- Strategy: This sucks, let me fix it
- Strategy: The perpetual discount
- Strategy: Build something and give it away
- Strategy: Making tutorials strategy
- Section 7 Review Material
- Types of proposals
- Components of proposals
- Types of estimates
- Our technique, in depth costs of everything
- Going over tools for improving your proposals
- How much do you customize
- Ballpark estimates versus exacto
- Strategy: Introduce ideas and see if they stick
- Section 8 Review Material
- How to keep the right amount of distance
- Confidence is key
- Just enough jargon
- Sniffing out their budget
- Speed is important with clients
- Is the client always right?
- Don't talk about problems, say what's happening
- Do you deliver what's good or what the client likes?
- Section 9 Review Material
- Under promise, over deliver
- What is agile? Should I use it?
- Client budgets and what difference they make
- Web presence clients aren't worth it
- Price per project, price per hour
- Should you worry about competition?
- Hedging your launch date
- Beautiful design makes beautiful development
- Running without contracts
- Red flags for bad clients
- Rich clients versus successful clients
- Tell when you're getting fizzled
- Don't quote off the top of your head
- Meeting in person
- Is there a benefit to delivering early?
- Repeat customers are the best
- Avoid assumers














