Everyone has a website these days, and the ones that don’t are eager to have one ASAP. Website services are becoming cheaper every day and the competition is high, but you can still grab a piece of cake if you play smart.
This method includes several sources of income. from web design, hosting and recurring services like monthly website maintenance.
And here’s how can you be ahead of your competition, offering high quality service, unique designs and cheap maintenance.
Method explained
First, most of the customers will need two things to have a website hosting and a domain. I recommend Bluehost since it’s cheap and offers a free domain.
Make sure to get one account for yourself with a domain like myawesomewebs. com where you will create and make websites for your clients before you transfer it onto their domain (you do it on a subdomain like customer. myawesomewebs. com ). Also, it would be great for you to have a website of your own where you will have your website offers available for everyone to see, together with your references later.
Bluehost is also great because you can have unlimited domains and subdomains added to it. It’s also good to have one for yourself to get familiar with it’s interface in case a client asks you something about it (you must know the product you are selling).
Bluehost has an affiliate program which pays you $65 for each signup. That means, with each customer you will get $65 even before you start working on the website. Don’t forget to include that in your web design offer, they must buy hosting through your affiliate link.
After they buy Bluehost. you install WordPress on it and start working your magic,
Now comes the fun part…
Most of those cheap bastards offering web services are using Theme Forest and similar websites for pre-made templates. I don’t advise that, since you want to be better than them and not offering pre-made templates, you will offer unique designs, different for each customer.
If you were wondering how to make completely customized websites, with drag’n’drop functions, I present you Thrive Themes.
With Thrive Themes agency pack (and you must take agency pack since you are going to be selling services and creating websites with their tools for clients), you get a whole bunch of tools. A content builders, several WordPress themes, Thrive landing pages and their awesome Thrive Leads and other plugins.
With that pack you are ready to make any kind of website and even bring it to a whole other level with landing pages and lead capturing.
Here’s what I suggest on the pricing model:
- Hosting domain Make them purchase Bluehost for a year, you get $65 commission Unique web design You can start as low as $300 $400 for simple websites (up to 10 pages), but make sure to higher the price after you made 10 or more websites. Website maintenance Depending on the website design price I would start with $20-$30 per month, then move higher as you put higher price on web design service. Extra options Lead capturing service setup $50 $150 with MailChimp. sending newsletters 1-4 times per month $50 $70, Landing pages $100 $150 per page (or more, depending on complexity), Multiple language website $100+ etc.
As you can see you can make at least $300 $400 per website (depending on the size of the website, you can charge even more) + recurring payments of website maintenance.
To twist it a bit, you can specialize in just making websites for local businesses like dentists, lawyers or any other niche you like.
And when business becomes more serious, you can outsource it for a fraction of the price you charge for your clients. Although I suggest to start on your own first to familiarize yourself with the process.
You can make over a $1000 a month easily. and if you really give yourself to it, you could be making several thousands of dollars per month + recurring income of website maintenance, newsletters and other.
