I’m getting into creating WP sites and am looking at the best approach to take and what you charge etc. Based in UK if it helps – well not physically but my clients will be and they won’t not I’m not).
Just done some brief research on my local area and I saw a lot of competition there. I noted that a basic WordPress site is generally offered for about £300 to be designed, built and handed over (without commerce).
Bear in mind that in the UK you cannot charge anything like you can in the US.
I noticed a trend of the no upfront cost option which may be a good hook, and figured once a website is built there may be updates to be made now and again, but many businesses just want an online presence and have people be able to find them – so get them on board with a “free website” that takes literally 3-4 hours to complete (zipwp, transfer it over, tweak it), then charge £100 a month for the service.
Charging £100 a month at no upfront cost is £1200 a year. Where I live / plan to live (South East Asia), I wouldn’t need more than 10-15 clients to live very comfortably if doing it myself (obviously would like as many as possible). I could offer each client 2 hours worth of updates each month, for example – and I can’t see anybody even needing that.
If I were to get any more clients than that, I’d easily be able to outsource the work paying cash in hand for next to nothing, at least the ongoing maintenance part.
I think it’s a good idea, but I’d absolutely be welcome to feedback.
Also bear in mind I’m looking at small businesses / tradesmen that want pretty basic websites. I think (but don’t know) they’d be put off by asking for anything like £5 a day, although maybe I could frame it as the same price as a cup of coffee each day and list the benefits they’d get in terms of search result visibility, having a professional and credible appearance as a business, being displayed on Google maps, setting themselves apart from their competition, etc.
Also, I’ve started this after recently being made redundant from my full time remote position and have absolutely no faith I’ll be able to find another similar full time job (fully remote from anywhere in the world – been applying for 2.5 years so I talk from experience).
I decided I’d give myself a challenge and a little project and see if I can take it anywhere. I am not massively technical but I know enough and I’ve done a Hubspot course on SEO and a Google course in digital marketing (I also worked for Amazon in one of their corporate offices for 5 years too, so a decent background). I enjoyed making my site and I think I would like to push ahead with this.
I see myself in a good position as long as I can find some clients. I know once I get clients then it ought to lead to referrals, and, as mentioned, wanting to (and currently doing so) live in SE Asia there is no end of people that would love to work a few hours each week, cash in hand, for a very low amount of money by western standards. So it’s not as if I’d need to be paying somebody £10-£15 an hour for 5 hours a week, more like £4-5 an hour tops for the same work but no doubt done much better.
Anyways that’s the whole story behind it and my motivation. It’s something I’d enjoy doing, can do, and hope can have some future with it.
As mentioned mid-way through, very much welcome to feedback or suggestions as I’m new to this and trying to get started!
Thank you.
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