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Hey guys! All good?
I have two direct questions for you:
1) How do you see the future of freelance work with WordPress given the emergence of so many low-code and artificial intelligence platforms?
2) What’s the best way to maximize profits with WordPress? Website development, plugins, themes, support, performance optimization, security or monthly maintenance? If you have other ideas, I’m super open to suggestions!
Note: Two years ago I became a WordPress freelancer and currently earn between \~6k to 8k per month.
Until later! 😄
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I’m curious where you find your clients? If you started without experience 2 years ago you’re doing really well.
As for #1 lol. Go to any random webflow wix etc site. It’s bad. It will replace low paying clients who are okay with such sites. Clients that want quality will still want professionals.
It may replace developers who only do simple sites. Really simple static type sites for small businesses.
Since WordPress has become a low-code platform which massively supports developers as well, so this world has now two paths.
You either go with designer root or developer root. Money is different thing, coming to that point later.
So, if you chose the designer root, then you should focus on practicing your design skills, develop some unique art style. There’re plenty of easy to use tools out there for designers to develop websites, so don’t get yourself bound to only wordpress.
If you’re a developer, you shouldn’t then solely focus on building mere websites. Think about what the users needs. Who are your users?? A big amount of them are marketers and business owners. What do they need?
Workflow automation, sells automation, booking, security, speed, etc.
There’s plenty of opportunity for developers in plugin business in these days I think. Focus on AI and workflow automations mostly.
Then comes the money part.
In this case,
Think about the bigger picture. What a business needs? How would your product (plugins, web design, developing website) could impact on your clients business?
When you think about these, you’ll find contexts.
And preach these contexts to business owners.
Like you need website for these and that, and I’ll build you a site that has xyz features. These features will benefit you in this and that way.