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I'm considering going into the business of building sites especially custom themes and so on. However, I'm reading online that its not worth is anymore as businesses are moving to SAAS platforms like Webflow, SquareSpace, Wix and many others. For those out there who been building sites for years what is your take on this.
Depends on wether they are willing to pay normal prices or rather want that 50USD price because they saw some Indians at Fiverr do it for that much
Those services fill a need but they don’t fill every need. Building a WordPress based website can fill the need gap to address the needs of a business that those other SaaS’s can’t.
Yep. You have to have the promotion and networking skills to get the good clients who will actually pay for more complex work though. Not the people who want to lowball you.
i have my own wordpress agency, still profitable….
WordPress is still profitable but it can be a grind.
1. Competitive pricing requires efficient workflows. If you’re spending too much time building a website you’ll spend too much time.
2. Quality clients you can effectively communicate with is super important. Going back and forth over design nonsense you either didn’t coax them to convey properly or maybe not holding them to a design you executed to spec because they don’t really like it after you did it will kill your profitability.
3. Custom themes are for specific clients. You cannot be building out custom themes for turn and burn $3,000 clients unless you have a very specific toolkit you use to rapidly deploy websites with. This may be some sort of framework you integrate or create and then have all sorts of reusable ACF template parts and CPTs pre-bill.
4. If you’re a “if you want something done right you have to do it yourself” type of person (which I am), it’ll sabotage any sort of growth beyond what you can handle. This essentially will turn your business dreams into a perpetual glorified freelance operation where you always grind. This can also sabotage your own sales efforts when you’re feeling burned out because selling more websites is just more weight on your shoulders.
5. Selling service, maintenance, hosting plans is key to creating some stability. Recurring revenue will save you during slow months.
6. Selling a specific type of client on your services is easier if you have a niche. Nonprofits, lawyers, dentists, healthcare, etc all make great clients. Real estate agents and hospitality suck.
Clients still want WordPress. Clients want to own their data. It’s easier to convince someone to make an investment when they own the website and aren’t just paying some sort of service.
Are you seriously asking if an industry where there are over half a billion WP sites is still profitable? Where WP commands over 45% of the industry, whilst Wix, Squarespace and Webflow don’t even garner 10% COMBINED?
L. O. L.