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Whenever I see pals advertising their services for low specially in WordPress Development, I feel extremely bad. Like maybe why are they doing it?
Do you feel that?
Are they underprivileged because the fact they aren’t native to West (where most of such work exists)?
Hard to say without knowing what you’re charging…
lots of variable factors,
– target market
– skillset
– scope of services
– experience
I’m from the Philippines. A 5 page website built on Elementor, I ask for $500. They said it’s too expensive. So I think that’s that
The bummer is not being able to find clients who can pay.
I do WordPress sites and Laravel sites. My mate has a business partner that wanted a very particular custom UI made for a web shop. To me, Laravel with a stripe integration seemed like the right choice. Turns out that the partner only had a budget of $450. I simply can’t work for that rate, so the job ended up going to someone who could. Jobs are few and far between for me right now so I was pretty tempted.
If I had done it for that, both you and I would be feeling bad for me right now. Sometimes the push for pricing is not the developer, sometimes it’s just the client being cheap.
Cheap clients are usually the worst clients..
I’ve made 10 very simple 5 page websites for business owners that had no existing site and relied on Google maps for awareness in their local area.
I charged $300 for the first one just to see if I could do it and how many hours it would take. I used a generate press template and had very basic pages so homepage, about page, product or services page.
Took 10 hours, so $30 an hour or so. Gradually increased the price to $600 now. I found that after the website is done, they would ask how to do maintenance like plugin updates, or how to change images etc.Now I change $60 an hour for one on one training or offer monthly web site care package for $60 month and I update and backup their site for them.
I think price comes down to who you target to be your client. I used to charge a few hundred per site purely based off word of mouth. Fast forward about 10 years now I make a few thousand for a one page website. I target large businesses that can afford to pay it, and they are much easier to work with.