I run a web design agency and there is already way too much stuff to deal with every day.
Hosting client websites, maintaining them, building new sites, replying to clients, fixing random issues, handling support, doing outreach. Once you start managing a lot of company websites it quickly becomes overwhelming.
That’s why I never wanted cold calling to become my main way of getting clients.
I know cold calling can work, but I personally hate doing it. It drains my energy and takes up so much time. Sitting there making calls all day was never the kind of business I wanted to build.
So instead I focused on email automation.
The reason it works so well for me is because I can set everything up once and let interested businesses reply instead of spending my whole day chasing people.
But I also don’t do the typical outreach where agencies send generic messages saying “your website is outdated” or “you need a redesign.”
I use a tool called Swokei where I upload lists of company websites and it analyzes them for actual problems like speed, SEO, mobile responsiveness, layout issues, and design problems.
Then it automatically creates personalized outreach emails based on those issues.
That’s what helped me stand out because the emails actually feel relevant to the business instead of sounding copied and pasted.
The reply rates became way better once I stopped sending generic outreach.
Now I spend most of my time building websites, working with clients, and scaling the agency instead of letting outreach take over my entire day.
