How to earn your WA fees while you grow your site.

bySDawson0001

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7 years ago

Make money to pay your WA Fees

I haven't blogged in a while, so I think I need to update folks on my progress. I have managed to create and publish several more blog posts on my sites. But I'm behind on watching Jay webinars.

I've been reading member posts where members are really needing to make some $$ to pay dues. Here is my best suggeston

1. Offer to create small business websites and host them as part of your Premium Membership freehosting. You can charge to create the sites ($150 for 3 pages, $300 for 5 pages, $500 for 7-9 pages. Then you can charge hosting fees of anywhere from $5-10 each month. I charge $80 if paid in advance for a year's hosting.

A 3 page site would include: ($150)

• Home Page
• Product/Services Page
• Contact Us Page

I always throw in the privacy policy page free

A 5 page site could include: ($300)

• Home Page
• About Us
• Product/Services Page
• Testimonial Page or more product/services page
• Contact Us Page
• Privacy Policy page (free)

A 7-9 page site could include: ($500)

• Home Page
• About Us
• Product/Services Page 1
• Product/Services Page 2
• Product/Services Page 3
• Completed projects
• Client page
• Testimonial Page
• Contact Us Page
• Privacy Policy page (free)

For all site packages I would charge $30 an hour for additional work and hosting fees (monthly or yearly). You can charge for domain registration or include for the first year. ($15)

Tips for serving clients:

Always include that text for each page be provided by the client. Also images (up to a certain number, i.e. 10 images) Charge for additional images. Also charge for including pdf files. I charge usually round $10 for each extra image and $15 for pdf files.

You can turn word documents into pdfs for free with MS Word using print to pdf. Then upload the pdf files to your WA site to link to. -Sometimes this can be tricky to find a file transport program (FTP) that works.

Get a down payment upfront to coveer time to mockup 2-3 proposed looks. I then get final payment when I publish the finished site.

I offer 3 proposed themes (I use my free siterubix sites to mock up 3 sites with different themes to show them. Once they pick one and I've created the paid domain site I can delete the mock sub domains in site rubix.

Don't purchase any plugins, try to find and use free ones. I once paid $30 for a slideshow plugin and then found a free one I could use.

Offer a monthly maintence plan to make up to ? number of text modifications. This can be rolled into the monthly hosting plan (making it a little more expensive).

Expecially don't purchase anything to build the site you have to renew each year except the domain registration fee.

BE NICE

BE PROMP

onDuring the year, contact them everyquarter to ask if they need any changey and are still happy with their websites.

Hope this helps someone. -Shirley

Here's a link to a great turorial on getting rst clients:

• b-development-client/
• https://smallbusiness.chron.com/build-website-client-needs-3...

I'm attaching a sample client email to send when ready to bill again after the first year.

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