Seeing all these people complaining about how this doesn't work, while doing basically this and succeeding, really highlights where the gap is in success. It's attitude. It doesn't wotk for you guys when you mentally decide it won't, because as soon as you go into thar bias, you wont actually try wholeheartedly.
The first time I tried a near carbon copy of this approach I got a response on the very first prospect client, whereas for me personally email campaigns had no return. Good stuff.
That simple FB DM exchange, including the follow up, and the "When was the last time you guys updated your website? " question. Pretty good stuff! Thanks
My company builds about 10 websites a month and the magic number is 1500 for a 5 page, 3000 for a 10 page and there's custom. Going to the Philippines or india is great if you dont care about quality or running a real business. Most clients i meet who went with foriegn web designers become disappointed and usually go local.
Do a lot of businesses actually agree to let international agencies design their websites ? I thought it was all local and word of mouth. How do they end up contacting each other/ reaching out ?
Payton man I've been following your content for a while but this one 🤯 I just realized why I was always having a hard go with Freelance work - I was trying to sell over the top websites to local businesses who just needed a simple solution 😮 thank you for this!!!!!!!! I've stopped in the past because I felt overwhelmed but this just let me know to give it another go
@darkrangerl I was just trying to build custom sites for everyone using a template just to get them off the ground. I'm offering website, domain securing, and email hosting, which is all for the simple solution.
Man Absolutely, Good Content, I Was Trying to get websites from international clients without great portfolio, but no success involved, And then started with referrals from friends, relatives. Now I have invested in local SEO and GMB optimisation for local business. Once I build great portfolio, then I will move to internationally.
You should post the email template you use and help freelancer or small agency starting out to get an idea of the right thing to say to close deals and gain more clients
Hey man. Your video is super great! I am 14 years old. Ive been learning how to make websites for about 8 months now, and have closed around 7 deals already. This video is probably gonna help me close some bigger deals with people or businesses, so thanks a lot!
Hi Payton! Wow! Such a great piece of advice! Many thanks. I am a complete newbie, but eager to learn. I wondered how do you make a website live and ready to hand off to a client and how this client can actually update it if necessary. I watch a few tutorials about design, but I don't know how or what to do after designing them. Do you have a tutorial about this or know where I could find one? I am very interested into becoming a web designer, but I need to know the whole process. Thanks a lot! :) Cheers from Spain!
How do you set up a google business page as a Marketer? I couldn't find Marketing or Advertisement as options to start as a GBP. Thanks! Love the content!
This is amazing. To me is not only a very easy and solid business model but also a very kind and nurturing way to be an active member of your community. we are all conected, and if we help eachother, there will always be work and progress for everyone. God bless you!
Wow good work. I can't believe anyone paid $1800 for that level of web design. Good hustle. Cmon, don't tell people they can sell to local business for 5k...pls...
@@topdev_tech9156 not this piece of shit stuff for sure. Custom is a different story. I got a cms that Ive been building for a couple of years, but I design full front. It goes for 4-7k with a fairly simple ios android app upsell that goes to 12k
hi, nice stuff. may I ask where did you built this website for your client? did you used platforms like wix? or is there another way? thanks and keepup the good work
What's about the hosting and the actual launching of the finished project? Do you include this process in your work or do you just send a folder with the project over to your client and that's it?
Hi Payton, Great info! I've obviously been charging much less than I should be. I was wondering, do you build the sites yourself or do you outsource the work? I outsource most of mine. Just curious. Also, kudo's for attending church! So do I. Kind regards Joe
Great video , Great real advice , the thing is i have problem with the thing "NICHE " most well performing designers around me are talking about niching down in web design . what's your idea about that ?
Hey Payton, I am confused between two niches for my web design journey. 1. Interior designers 2. Electricians Can you help me select among these niches by sharing your views on these niches ?
I’m sure you could have success with both. But here are my thoughts: Electricians sell a service with quick turnaround. One job could be $1000+ and be done in a few hours. Interior design has much longer time to fulfillment. I like businesses that get a direct return from my website efforts and electrician seems to be an easier niche for that.
Thanks for the method bro worked perfectly, I have a question : I have an interested client for a web design in the dental niche but I don't have neither a personal portfolio or agency portfolio what should I do to sign him up just like that or should I drive him to my Upwork profile however I don't have no experience and no reviews ?
Those t-shirts though, man! 😂 I saw someone do that with photography once where their shirt said “I shoot people” with a photo of a camera on it. I think that “I build websites” would go over better. 👍🏻😬
Great advice! Only disagreement is “flyers”, business cards might be a better suggestion. Flyers just feel so outdated and not cost effective, paper and ink are $$$
According to spin selling the question you said at the end is more like a situational question. Not sure that is the first thing you will ask a prospect.
Thank you Payton. Some of the comments here are little harsh! I’ve found a lot of businesses that do have outdated websites know they do but they aren’t really concerned with it. So a new website design is a tough sell at times. They don’t want to spend more than 100-200 bucks period. Any thoughts on an approach in that case?
Great video man, i‘m trying myself on website design myself now an this video helped me a lot, but i just wanted to know if you code your websites or if you build them and if you build them, on which programm? :)
Payton, such a great video! Love your content, probably gonna join your pro community soon :). By the way, what do you use to record your screen? Looks great!
Thanks Payton, it was really inspiring, my favorite method was self branding by wearing t-shirt and visiting the public places. One thing I want to ask that can we go to making websites in Wordpress using elementor instead of webflow? Because I live in Pakistan and webflow is quite expensive. Please share your thoughts on it.
Hey Payton, thank you for this great video. A question - how do you handle an influx of web design requests that convert to actual work. The time needed to design a great functional site from brief to final published site is as you know very taxing. We only have a number of hours in a day. Is their a limit to how many designs you can take on ? Outsourcing is something I cannot do, its like asking another photographer to handle a wedding shoot because you cant make it. Just scary. Thanks
Hi payton! Just found your video today and watched first time. It did add value. I am kinda struggling to find clients and i am full stack web developer. Got any tips for me?? Note: i am targeting United States but i am out of US
Are you selling as a freelance or do you have your own business/LLC? May I ask how you pay yourself per project? Say they pay you $1,800, what do you reserve towards your personal income?
None of those have worked for me so far. I have tried that outdated website example and this backfired big time. Some business owners get super offended... As most of them created their own website and are super proud of it... I'm looking into collabs, but where to start and what to offer..
Im really confused, if we develope wordpress websites then it is called web design or web development as many say it is only web design. But we can develop ecommerce websites with wordpress also. So can you tell what is right!
I have this one big question I can`t seem to get answered, so I was wondering if anybody here as an answer. What happens to the website once you`ve set everything up and are "done" with setting everything up? Websites need maintenance. So, do you offer a maintenance fee and keep them as a life long customer or ...? How does this work practically? Thx for answers!
Google my business doesn’t let you create business profiles using home addresses anymore, real shame. Any way around this for a digital agency that’s home based?
Are you supposed, to transfer ownership of the website to your clients when you make them, or do you just host them for them , are there also any paperwork that you need to be aware of please someone help me to find answers to my questions
Esse cara ensina tudo o que acredito ser importante, eu compartilho e me identifico muito com suas abordagens de negócios. Não achei nada no Brasil semelhante, que bom que encontrei este canal. Muito obrigado por compartilhar seus conhecimentos.
Come on bro. Inflation is way too high for small Businesses To pay that kind of money for a website. Especially if you are in the beginning stages of building websites for clients It's not as easy as you make it seem.
Sell websites to local businesses by identifying their needs, offering tailored solutions, and demonstrating clear ROI. Build strong relationships to close deals effectively.
I know an agency in London that charges $10,000 for designing sites that are ultimately built on Squarespace. Wix also has a fairly decent website builder. You don’t need to learn coding to build websites today. WordPress is overly complex.
You cannot verify your home location as far as I know in Google Business. Google doesn’t allow you to do that, they require real office with proves like your logo on the wall, stuff in office, etc. Are there any ways to be verified?
Hmmm this may have changed recently. I know it’s been possible in the past and I imagine there are ways around it. Because so many businesses run out of a residential address.
Why does your Google posting say: Website designer and other internet marketing service So which is better to do? Also do you have two Google businesses posted?
Step 1: Have a discovery meeting with the client, do they already have hosting and a domain, if they are already an established business, the chances that they are already paying for a domain are quite high, determine their needs, wants, and schedule a start date and invoice for 50% up front, also schedule a kickoff meeting to dive into the website structure/sitemap/features/design, also let them know there will be post-launch support for x amount of weeks, and then they will enter into a maintenance contract to keep the site running smoothly and malware free. Step 2: Ask the client for the login details for the provider the domain is hosted on so you have full autonomy and access to do your job and attach the domain to a hosting provider if it isn't already. Step 3: During the discovery meeting with the client determine the level of hosting they might require, e.g is it a simple 5 page brochure website? Or is it an ecommerce website? This will allow you to purchase the correct speed, size level of hosting, if you aren't taking it a step further and purchasing your own VMs to upsell them into your own hosting (Which Imo is not worth the hassle for the little extra money) Step 4: Your kickoff meeting with the client should be taking place about now, here you will further in depth about their wants and needs for the website. Step 5: Begin planning your website, I personally use Notion and have a custom ready made project kickoff template which allows me to sort/filter/organise all of their current brand materials, my objective, their requirements, their objective for the website, an overall strategy, calendar for deliverables and overall timeline for website completion. Step 6: Work on designing the website and delivering, meet with the client once a week to make sure they are happy with the work you are doing, before nailing down the design It's suggested that you create a style guide page for them to give the OK on the overall design before you start templating the main page onto 5+ other pages. Step 7: You should now be ready to go live with the website, you should now invoice for the rest of the 50%. Step 8: Now you enter into maintenance mode, if you haven't managed to determine any extra business needs for them that you could upsell as website features during the kickoff meeting, such as brand design, social media, marketing, advertising, graphic design, custom features, booking forms, seasonal changes, etc, then you probably won't see much more work, this client now goes into the yearly maintenance passive income folder. Check up with them every month or 2 to make sure they are happy and don't require any additional help or changes. Congrats, if you've followed every step here, you've successfully overdelivered on a simple website and the client is happy with your work and may start referring you to their business partners and friends!
Why do I need login details for the provider the domain is hosted on and not for the website I’ll be working on? If I use the login for the provider the domain is hosted on, how does the client change the login info after I’ve completed and made their site live?
Seeing all these people complaining about how this doesn't work, while doing basically this and succeeding, really highlights where the gap is in success.
It's attitude. It doesn't wotk for you guys when you mentally decide it won't, because as soon as you go into thar bias, you wont actually try wholeheartedly.
The first time I tried a near carbon copy of this approach I got a response on the very first prospect client, whereas for me personally email campaigns had no return. Good stuff.
That simple FB DM exchange, including the follow up, and the "When was the last time you guys updated your website? " question. Pretty good stuff! Thanks
My company builds about 10 websites a month and the magic number is 1500 for a 5 page, 3000 for a 10 page and there's custom. Going to the Philippines or india is great if you dont care about quality or running a real business. Most clients i meet who went with foriegn web designers become disappointed and usually go local.
Do a lot of businesses actually agree to let international agencies design their websites ? I thought it was all local and word of mouth.
How do they end up contacting each other/ reaching out ?
Payton man I've been following your content for a while but this one 🤯 I just realized why I was always having a hard go with Freelance work - I was trying to sell over the top websites to local businesses who just needed a simple solution 😮 thank you for this!!!!!!!! I've stopped in the past because I felt overwhelmed but this just let me know to give it another go
Thanks for this comment 🙏🏼
Good luck!!
What's the simplw solutiom you are talking about & dod you actually had a go at it?
@darkrangerl I was just trying to build custom sites for everyone using a template just to get them off the ground. I'm offering website, domain securing, and email hosting, which is all for the simple solution.
Man Absolutely, Good Content, I Was Trying to get websites from international clients without great portfolio, but no success involved, And then started with referrals from friends, relatives. Now I have invested in local SEO and GMB optimisation for local business. Once I build great portfolio, then I will move to internationally.
You should post the email template you use and help freelancer or small agency starting out to get an idea of the right thing to say to close deals and gain more clients
No he shouldn't do this for free. Why give his competitors something so precious?
You need logo for your business. Please contact now
Hey man.
Your video is super great! I am 14 years old. Ive been learning how to make websites for about 8 months now, and have closed around 7 deals already. This video is probably gonna help me close some bigger deals with people or businesses, so thanks a lot!
Nice i just turned 15 how much have you made so far and what advice would you give someone your age who’s trying to start this?
Hi Payton! Wow! Such a great piece of advice! Many thanks. I am a complete newbie, but eager to learn. I wondered how do you make a website live and ready to hand off to a client and how this client can actually update it if necessary. I watch a few tutorials about design, but I don't know how or what to do after designing them. Do you have a tutorial about this or know where I could find one? I am very interested into becoming a web designer, but I need to know the whole process. Thanks a lot! :) Cheers from Spain!
Thanks for this. It makes a lot of sense
How do you set up a google business page as a Marketer? I couldn't find Marketing or Advertisement as options to start as a GBP. Thanks! Love the content!
This is amazing. To me is not only a very easy and solid business model but also a very kind and nurturing way to be an active member of your community. we are all conected, and if we help eachother, there will always be work and progress for everyone. God bless you!
Wow good work. I can't believe anyone paid $1800 for that level of web design. Good hustle. Cmon, don't tell people they can sell to local business for 5k...pls...
@@topdev_tech9156 not this piece of shit stuff for sure. Custom is a different story. I got a cms that Ive been building for a couple of years, but I design full front. It goes for 4-7k with a fairly simple ios android app upsell that goes to 12k
I have a meeting with a prospect in a few hours, been watching this and the blueprint video. I hope i can land this gig hehe
How did you go man?
Hey man, how did it go?
Hi thanks for info, also do you ask for down payment before or after the website wireframing to clients?
hi, nice stuff. may I ask where did you built this website for your client? did you used platforms like wix? or is there another way? thanks and keepup the good work
That was a fantastic video! As a special treat for your subscribers, we're offering them our best deals
Hi do you still offer a special treat? Like web hosting? In exchange of promoting your business?
What's about the hosting and the actual launching of the finished project?
Do you include this process in your work or do you just send a folder with the project over to your client and that's it?
Right Question.
Hi Payton,
Great info! I've obviously been charging much less than I should be.
I was wondering, do you build the sites yourself or do you outsource the work? I outsource most of mine.
Just curious.
Also, kudo's for attending church! So do I.
Kind regards
Joe
These methods do work, because they've also worked for me. Cheers 🍻
I want to know how you approached. Can you pls share your story 😺
Great video , Great real advice , the thing is i have problem with the thing "NICHE " most well performing designers around me are talking about niching down in web design . what's your idea about that ?
Hey Payton, I am confused between two niches for my web design journey.
1. Interior designers
2. Electricians
Can you help me select among these niches by sharing your views on these niches ?
I’m sure you could have success with both.
But here are my thoughts:
Electricians sell a service with quick turnaround. One job could be $1000+ and be done in a few hours. Interior design has much longer time to fulfillment.
I like businesses that get a direct return from my website efforts and electrician seems to be an easier niche for that.
@@PaytonClarkSmith thank you man for clearing my doubts, I can now think clearly 🙌
I need you to start making that shirt! I actually paused the video and went to your website looking for merch lol 😅
😂 I should have had an offer!
Thanks for the method bro worked perfectly, I have a question :
I have an interested client for a web design in the dental niche but I don't have neither a personal portfolio or agency portfolio
what should I do to sign him up just like that or should I drive him to my Upwork profile however I don't have no experience and no reviews ?
Thank you very much for this video! Straight to the point and no courses selling 😎🤜🏾🤛🏼
If you think this is informative and follow it I woudnt bet our house on it guys a complete joke
Did you charge a one-time charge? Or was it a subscription model?
Those t-shirts though, man! 😂 I saw someone do that with photography once where their shirt said “I shoot people” with a photo of a camera on it. I think that “I build websites” would go over better. 👍🏻😬
😂
Loved the t-shirt tip! 😊
Great advice! Only disagreement is “flyers”, business cards might be a better suggestion. Flyers just feel so outdated and not cost effective, paper and ink are $$$
Hi Payton, why not just ranking and renting the website to them? Isnt this better( u own the website) than selling it?
This is good stuff, man. I just got my website going, and now I'm in that stage of finding my first client. I might just try the shirt approach.
Hey man ! did you find your first client ?
sir whats name of your company where is your social proof?
According to spin selling the question you said at the end is more like a situational question. Not sure that is the first thing you will ask a prospect.
I always check their site beforehand to create that situation and this can actually be a really great conversation starter!
Do you charge a monthly fee for the customer to continue using the website, or is it just a one time purchase?
thx bro for this video you caved me energy to start selling websites thx again wish you the best
Thank you Payton. Some of the comments here are little harsh! I’ve found a lot of businesses that do have outdated websites know they do but they aren’t really concerned with it. So a new website design is a tough sell at times. They don’t want to spend more than 100-200 bucks period. Any thoughts on an approach in that case?
Hey Payton, great video. Quick question, did your Apex gig included web server spin-up and securing of the vm or did they have one ready to go?
Great video man, i‘m trying myself on website design myself now an this video helped me a lot, but i just wanted to know if you code your websites or if you build them and if you build them, on which programm? :)
Payton, such a great video! Love your content, probably gonna join your pro community soon :). By the way, what do you use to record your screen? Looks great!
Thank you, we would love to have you in the group!
I use www.screen.studio
There's a pro community?!😮
Screen studio is GREAT ! Only for Mac $89 lifetime
Thanks Payton, it was really inspiring, my favorite method was self branding by wearing t-shirt and visiting the public places. One thing I want to ask that can we go to making websites in Wordpress using elementor instead of webflow? Because I live in Pakistan and webflow is quite expensive. Please share your thoughts on it.
Payton - Just amazing video as it aligns with what i was thinking,
Happy to hear this 🙌🏻
great video. which software do you use to build websites ? which CMS ? thank you
Hey Payton, thank you for this great video. A question - how do you handle an influx of web design requests that convert to actual work. The time needed to design a great functional site from brief to final published site is as you know very taxing. We only have a number of hours in a day. Is their a limit to how many designs you can take on ? Outsourcing is something I cannot do, its like asking another photographer to handle a wedding shoot because you cant make it. Just scary. Thanks
Very unique, authentic, valuable knowledge and tips. Thank you for sharing. I rarely comment.
Should I learn web design/development (webflow) in 2024? Will ai replace webflow experts?
Hey I am also learning web development
This is great, what is your free guide for getting reviews, thanks again
That is really useful and excellent idea thanks a lot
Thank you for this video Payton!
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so once ive gotten them to agree to the terms how do I transfer ownership of the website to them?
Very informative video, keep doing it, thanks!
love the content! how much do you make a month by this. JW if its feasible for me
Brilliant last question and it is true their responses are exactly as you say....uhm, er, it has been a long time....
what’s your opinion on offering a free website to like 2 clients for someone who doesn’t have any website to their name to build a portfolio?
Thanks brother very informative 5 points
Wow, this is exactly what I needed! Thanks!
Great video man
Hi payton!
Just found your video today and watched first time. It did add value. I am kinda struggling to find clients and i am full stack web developer. Got any tips for me??
Note: i am targeting United States but i am out of US
Keep going
Are you selling as a freelance or do you have your own business/LLC? May I ask how you pay yourself per project? Say they pay you $1,800, what do you reserve towards your personal income?
In this video, who paid the publishing of the website? or How do explain this to client, like domain not included?
Great videos, thank you!!
Amazing content! love the ending tune too! name of the tune? Thank you sir
🙏🏼thanks. I don’t know the name of the tune sorry
None of those have worked for me so far. I have tried that outdated website example and this backfired big time. Some business owners get super offended... As most of them created their own website and are super proud of it... I'm looking into collabs, but where to start and what to offer..
Do you continue to maintain the website for them? Do you charge for edits later when they need new info out on?
Im really confused, if we develope wordpress websites then it is called web design or web development as many say it is only web design. But we can develop ecommerce websites with wordpress also. So can you tell what is right!
web designer design the website, web developer recreate the design creating the website
Little question:
I want to outsource my work...do you think i should use webflow or wordpress?
I really don't want all the maintenance problems.
I personally use Webflow and love it. But you can be successful with either!
@@PaytonClarkSmith do you have to deal with maintenance?
I feel that the problem with wordpress is the continuous maintenance
Thanks😊 Really helpful content👍
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do you also maintain all those websites after you built them?
So does this mean that if let say I am in ABC Town, I should focus my agency website to "Web Design ABC Town"?
Yeah, It is definitely an easier way to find clients!
I have this one big question I can`t seem to get answered, so I was wondering if anybody here as an answer.
What happens to the website once you`ve set everything up and are "done" with setting everything up?
Websites need maintenance. So, do you offer a maintenance fee and keep them as a life long customer or ...? How does this work practically?
Thx for answers!
What would you do if you offered to improve a clients current website but it was built using a software you are not familiar with I.e Wordpress?
great ideas and suggestions
Google my business doesn’t let you create business profiles using home addresses anymore, real shame. Any way around this for a digital agency that’s home based?
Virtual office
They still do
community, tribe and authority .That's all you need to take to land a job/service.
Are you supposed, to transfer ownership of the website to your clients when you make them, or do you just host them for them , are there also any paperwork that you need to be aware of please someone help me to find answers to my questions
Dude I actually burst out laughing with the t-shirt, will do hahahahaha
What do you use to build the website? Wordpress?
How does this work? Do they already have a website and then give you their admin credentials so you can edit it?
Payton do you then generally charge a monthly maintenence/hosting fee for the site??
I get the majority of my website clients into an SEO campaign which is $1000-2000 per month
Otherwise yes I will try to get some sort of hosting or maintenance fee!
Wow! A video on this would be great!
Hey Payton. Nice Content. When you first started , did you use any cms or was it all code
Esse cara ensina tudo o que acredito ser importante, eu compartilho e me identifico muito com suas abordagens de negócios. Não achei nada no Brasil semelhante, que bom que encontrei este canal. Muito obrigado por compartilhar seus conhecimentos.
Come on bro. Inflation is way too high for small Businesses To pay that kind of money for a website. Especially if you are in the beginning stages of building websites for clients It's not as easy as you make it seem.
Just curious, what budget do u think it would be appropiate? Im offering my services and this information would be helpfull 😊
@@agostinaalassia2332what price did you end up doing?
@@EmmanuelS-dh5ng600 usd 😂... But i know i will do better. 🥲 Somehow...and someday
I think 500 dollars it's ok for beginners
Exactly.
Sell websites to local businesses by identifying their needs, offering tailored solutions, and demonstrating clear ROI. Build strong relationships to close deals effectively.
Can i use wordpress to do this or i have to know coding?
I know an agency in London that charges $10,000 for designing sites that are ultimately built on Squarespace. Wix also has a fairly decent website builder. You don’t need to learn coding to build websites today. WordPress is overly complex.
In your course do you show people with no experience how to attract clients?
Absolutely!
very informative video, sir🎉
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does ur work include developement too
awesome video mate, cheers from australia
👊🏻thanks!
I just started my web agency
Hey man, i would love to visit your website and see how you are doing, I am also willing to do so@@datawithtess
Cold outreach is illegal in my place : (
But how you find a design for them ?
Hey hey, Idaho Falls represent
You cannot verify your home location as far as I know in Google Business. Google doesn’t allow you to do that, they require real office with proves like your logo on the wall, stuff in office, etc. Are there any ways to be verified?
Hmmm this may have changed recently. I know it’s been possible in the past and I imagine there are ways around it. Because so many businesses run out of a residential address.
@@PaytonClarkSmith thanks for your thoughts, Payto
@@PaytonClarkSmith
This changed more than a year ago.
@@VirendraBG if you look at hvac businesses you would still see a lot of those businesses listed at their home address
Haha,I ll try nxt time to open my mouth at my dentist :)
😄 let’s go!
cool video)
I live in NYC 😫😂 but you’re right.
Sent you an email asking a very specific question still waiting on a reply
What do I do about the domain
Gotta be a crazy good website for me to pay that
$3000-5000? Ppl near me think $900 is way to much and i refuse to cater to cheap ppl
Why does your Google posting say:
Website designer and other internet marketing service
So which is better to do?
Also do you have two Google businesses posted?
how to actually give the website you made to your client??
Depends on the platform. But make sure it’s in an account they have access to after they pay final invoice. Then publish site to their domain.
@@PaytonClarkSmith not a bad idea for a future video. Thank you for sharing.
Step 1: Have a discovery meeting with the client, do they already have hosting and a domain, if they are already an established business, the chances that they are already paying for a domain are quite high, determine their needs, wants, and schedule a start date and invoice for 50% up front, also schedule a kickoff meeting to dive into the website structure/sitemap/features/design, also let them know there will be post-launch support for x amount of weeks, and then they will enter into a maintenance contract to keep the site running smoothly and malware free.
Step 2: Ask the client for the login details for the provider the domain is hosted on so you have full autonomy and access to do your job and attach the domain to a hosting provider if it isn't already.
Step 3: During the discovery meeting with the client determine the level of hosting they might require, e.g is it a simple 5 page brochure website? Or is it an ecommerce website? This will allow you to purchase the correct speed, size level of hosting, if you aren't taking it a step further and purchasing your own VMs to upsell them into your own hosting (Which Imo is not worth the hassle for the little extra money)
Step 4: Your kickoff meeting with the client should be taking place about now, here you will further in depth about their wants and needs for the website.
Step 5: Begin planning your website, I personally use Notion and have a custom ready made project kickoff template which allows me to sort/filter/organise all of their current brand materials, my objective, their requirements, their objective for the website, an overall strategy, calendar for deliverables and overall timeline for website completion.
Step 6: Work on designing the website and delivering, meet with the client once a week to make sure they are happy with the work you are doing, before nailing down the design It's suggested that you create a style guide page for them to give the OK on the overall design before you start templating the main page onto 5+ other pages.
Step 7: You should now be ready to go live with the website, you should now invoice for the rest of the 50%.
Step 8: Now you enter into maintenance mode, if you haven't managed to determine any extra business needs for them that you could upsell as website features during the kickoff meeting, such as brand design, social media, marketing, advertising, graphic design, custom features, booking forms, seasonal changes, etc, then you probably won't see much more work, this client now goes into the yearly maintenance passive income folder. Check up with them every month or 2 to make sure they are happy and don't require any additional help or changes.
Congrats, if you've followed every step here, you've successfully overdelivered on a simple website and the client is happy with your work and may start referring you to their business partners and friends!
Why do I need login details for the provider the domain is hosted on and not for the website I’ll be working on?
If I use the login for the provider the domain is hosted on, how does the client change the login info after I’ve completed and made their site live?