andresmolgenicki Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Hi everybody! My name is Andres, I am from Uruguay. I do renderings for a living, it's my passion. I run a company with a friend here and we have a pretty good quality. The thing is that we cannot get clients from outside our city, I mean, we would love to have clients from around the globe. Believe me, we have try a lot of things, massive emails, facebook, linkedin, try to have associates in another country, none of those seem to work. What's happening here? any suggestions? We have a lot of potential but we haven't had good luck yet findind the right strategy.... Thank you all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marius e Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 My opinion is that people do not just want to give work to people that are far away in general, one need contacts to get that work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Schroeder Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 It's a huge risk to take on someone from outside your area for the first time. When you are pitching your company, you need to put the fears of communication, language barriers, skill levels, feedback, and anything else at rest. How do you plan on handling time differences? What happens if you are going home when your client is just coming into work? How would you treat that situation? You can't just use the pitch of hire us because we are awesome. In the end you just have to have patience and determination. Start local like you are currently doing. Local contacts lead to next town over contacts. Next town over contacts lead to major city contacts, and on and on until you have a global contact network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heni30 Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 (edited) It's also a matter of what you're offering. Your website has work that's "pretty good". Most clients can find "pretty good" locally. And it's probably someone that they can meet with and have a more personal relationship with. So it seems like you (everyone!) has to offer something that stands out from the norm. Basically you're offering quality, price, and reliability. A lot of overseas companies can deliver with conventional quality and price. Communication seems to be a big stumbling block with them. These are just some issues - I don't know what the solution is. Edited May 1, 2014 by heni30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliveG Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 (edited) My opinion is that people do not just want to give work to people that are far away in general, one need contacts to get that work. 90% of my work is from another hemisphere, so MW Studio shouldn't be too defeatist on that front. I get new work by word of mouth only, but I did start the ball rolling when I lived for a time in Europe, the work from one company followed me when we moved to Australia and I've since done work in North and South America, Scandanavia and a whole lot of other places tens of thousands of miles away. The risk seems to me to be mine - whether I'll get paid. But this part of the discussion has been thrashed in other posts.... I agree that starting that ball rolling will be a challenge, but perhaps something along the lines of http://forums.cgarchitect.com/75944-getting-new-clients-one-way-do.html might be a start. You'd have to pick a target and go for it, Otherwise I don't think work will just land in your lap from passive methods like FB or LinkedIn. Not easy but possible, good luck. Edited May 1, 2014 by CliveG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zdravko Barisic Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Hi everybody! My name is Andres, I am from Uruguay. .... No, Andreas is not your name, your name is your renders! So, where is your online portofolio, company web, etc....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andresmolgenicki Posted May 1, 2014 Author Share Posted May 1, 2014 hi! thank you everyone for all the responses! if you want to check my portfolio, is at http://www.mwstudio3d.com!! if anyone have more suggestions about how to ley our company known around the world that would be great! things like were to post our portfolio, etc. Enviado desde mi GT-I9300 mediante Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francisco Penaloza Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Hola, One thing I would recommend if you are tying to reach more people, specially international clients is change your website. Flash is not an all devises friendly environment. If you try to see your website with an tablet, android or apple phone you'll have problems. Also in your website there is not contact information, at least easy to find, also there is nothing that said who you are, how much experience you have or if you are in the attic of your grandmother house or an office space. Please do not make it look like a sweatshop, like many people make their website look. HTML5 can give you all the animation that Flash does, and can be easily accessed for any devise. Wordpress, Drupal, square space can be a great help on this, giving you everything you need to have a compatible professional looking website in no time. Write a resume of you or your company. How many people is your team, scale of project you can develop, some names of your clients and project description. Your render look good enough but without more info they can be easily confuse with pre made scenes. If you want to reach height clients, you need to look "decent" enough for those companies trust you. Best look! Saludos. Fco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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