My friend, who was nearly broke and strapped for cash started a web design agency solely based on Wordpress. Started at Wordpress themes online. Built 10 custo

My friend, who was nearly broke and strapped for cash started a web design agency solely based on Wordpress. Started at Wordpress themes online. Built 10 custom theme frameworks, for every client he just picks the one that best suits the job, adds a logo, changes colours, does a bit more tweaking and deploys at 5k/pop. In his first month he did 5 sites. A month later he opened his own agency with a few employees under him. All on Wordpress. +1 on reusable platform. So much time saved. The way he brought in clients was mainly via twitter and running searches. He searched for any tweets within his locale geared towards the web and hunted clients down, mostly through convincing them that they NEED a new website. For example, if someone or a few people tweeted about a small businesses shitty website "omg I wish xy pizza had order options on their site -_-", he would archive these tweets, compile a listing and other market research and pitch it to the company and score himself a new job. I hope this is at least of some use to OP. Social media + platform + hustle/hounding = $.