A business acquaintance of ‘Max’* called and asked if I could redesign her online store. Max is the client I set up an online store for last year (the whole business is now for sale). The lady who called sells her products in a small store close to Max’s and wants to sell online as well. She said that she likes Max’s online store because it looks clean, neat and well organised.
I had to tell her that I am not a web designer and that the graphic designer I ‘usually work with’ is overseas.
However, Max’s online store doesn’t have a customised design anyway. I picked Max’s store front design from a selection of free templates which was part of the ecommerce hosting package. I customised it with photos and neat copy writing, a map for the contact form and so on.
A decent selection of neat design templates were one of the selection criteria when I chose the ecommerce host. Max didn’t want to spend a cent on the storefront design, and I don’t want to spend my time on an ugly online store that screams ‘We Are Unprofessional!’ to the visitors. The template was a decent compromise.
So I told the lady that if she is happy with a template design, I can help her set it up and we agreed on a time to have a chat about it.

I’ll nick name this prospect ‘Project Daisy’**
Yay! Does that mean I’ve got a new project? I am cautiously optimistic and trying to work out what to do.
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