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    A simple (but full) guide to how I make $200 a month passive doing website design. Entrepreneur

    A simple (but full) guide to how I make $200 a month passive doing website design. Entrepreneur


    A simple (but full) guide to how I make $200 a month passive doing website design.

    Posted: 07 Jan 2022 06:21 AM PST

    This is a relatively short post inspired by my response to a few questions I got asked in Reddit chat following my previous post. I hate long guides which bullshit people so this is as succinct as it gets.

    For background, I started this a month or two ago and have six or seven clients.

    Here's the goal:

    • Make websites for people for money.
    • Offer to do domain and hosting for them
    • Charge them a monthly fee for it with a slight profit margin + maintenance which people very rarely ever use because you shouldn't build dogshit that breaks (basically passive).
    • Do it enough times, $200.

    How do you do this?

    • Domain: NameCheap
    • Hosting: EasyWP - Cheapest plan. Ask them if they have enough traffic that they need more.
    • Page builder plug-in: Elementor

    You can Google how to use all of these.

    • Customers: Cold call people or make websites for people you know. It helps to create your own business site first, and maybe one or two free samples. Don't make free shit for too long. There are also sites where you can pay for leads, but the lead listings often have information you can use to hunt people down and contact them outside the site even if the emails and phone numbers are redacted. Ask for referrals or Google reviews. One in every five customers tends to give you a referral if you do a decent job. Go after customers with large email lists so they can announce the new website and shout you out while they're at it, ones which don't have a site, or ones that have a garbage site.

    • You're charging them for time and expertise. Don't upcharge people on things they don't need, you're an entrepreneur, not a piece of shit.

    • Cost: I've had good success with $450 - $750 upfront, then $30-50 a month. Don't jack prices up at once, do it by $50 every new customer to test the waters. Charge based on people's means. Feel free to undercharge on the upfront fee if it gets you more customers, just make sure it covers the cost of the theme you'll be using to build your sites (use themes as you likely can't design worth a shit and it's too much effort anyway). Find themes on Themeforest.

    • Invoice: Use Stripe. Donate 1% to Stripe Climate to feel good about yourself.

    That's it. Go forth and build something.

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    Where to hire VAs in South America or

    Posted: 07 Jan 2022 03:31 AM PST

    I hire a lot of virtual assistants full time for my projects and love working with Philippine people in general. Always friendly and hard working. However the recent typhoon showed me its not a great idea to hire everybody from the same location as many of my staff may be without power and internet for many weeks. (btw I continue to pay them despite this)

    I'm thus looking to hire in South America or any time zone close to the USA like Dominican Republic.

    Any recommendations for good places to post job ads in these regions?

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    Experience with paid lead gen services?

    Posted: 07 Jan 2022 05:58 AM PST

    I'm looking at https://viametric.com/. Has anyone used them or similar firms?

    I'm wary because my inbox gets a steady stream of offers for "quality contacts" that are scammy.

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    How to share and define responsibilities, equity, and consequences of not working with co-founder(s) in a contract?

    Posted: 07 Jan 2022 05:37 AM PST

    Dear fellow Redditors! how is your day?

    I am currently running a SaaS startup with a co-founder and we are renegotiating our contract. When we founded the company it was our assumption that I would have less time than my cofounder to work on the project, and as such, we decided to divide equity (when our company will transition from a partnership under a common firm to a private company) based on the number of hours we both put in in the company. As such we've been tracking our hours, but this has led to a situation where inefficiency is rewarded and where we feel we are constantly in competition with each other.

    9 months later and the situation is completely different than originally anticipated. I have contributed equally to the startup as my cofounder and our hours pretty much cancel out, as such we will be rewriting our contract so that equity is split 50/50, which is something we both agreed upon.

    This does raise some questions though, what happens when we sign this contract and one of us decides to slack? How do we define vacation days or sick days, etc.? Our original line of thinking was to define responsibilities in our new contract and work with a strike system when one of us feels the other is not living up to those. And based on the strike, to give them a fine that will be deducted from their salary. I am sure that we are not the first nor are we going to be the last to face these questions.

    As inspiration, I was wondering what types of agreements you guys have with your co-founder(s)? I am really curious to find out how you guys have made a fair and enforceable contract between you guys and what the story is behind your companies! I'm thrilled to get to know all of you guys your stories and experiences working with cofounders in a startup/company.

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    Alibaba verified seller dissapeared?

    Posted: 07 Jan 2022 05:21 AM PST

    Was dealing with this Alibaba verified seller with over 80k transactions but their store suddently disappeared. Anyone had this happen to them before? Seems odd, it looks like it was a legitimate business.

    I still have the seller's whatsapp number but something definitely feels dodgy. I paid $400 for 50 items. After i made the payment, he "shipped" more items than he was suppose to because the minimum for shipping is $1000 worth of goods. He later called me telling me that he can offer insurance in case the goods gets damaged for $225. I declined. He later told me that i may have to pay custom fees which is normal but he doesnt know the amount yet.

    Stupid me paid the $400 in Bitcoin (i know, thinking back, maybe i got a little too excited. I admit fault)

    I asked him for the tracking and he have me this:

    Adventuresmovingagency[dot]com

    After going on that website it looks completely bogus, my tracking does work but i feel like its made up.

    What are you guy's thoughts on this?

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    What are some top characteristics for running a successful business?

    Posted: 07 Jan 2022 05:07 AM PST

    Examples: self-discipline, people and communication skills, personal passion and drive, market knowledge, money management skills, good leadership skills, etc.

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    Do you put ads / paid traffic online for your business ?

    Posted: 07 Jan 2022 05:07 AM PST

    Hi everyone,

    My company is fairly new to online traffic and paid ads. Right now we are paying a third party vendor to create and manage the online ads. I have my own thoughts about that, but I'm interested to hear other's experts opinions.

    What do you think it's better: manage your own traffic and ads, or outsource it? Could you give me a brief explanation on why you think that way?

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    To be a successful entrepreneur you need to sacrifice your personal life.

    Posted: 07 Jan 2022 04:44 AM PST

    What do you think?

    View Poll

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    What are some good cities to start a small business in 2022?

    Posted: 07 Jan 2022 04:27 AM PST

    Folks,

    two years into the pandemic and after dramatic changes like WFH and people moving across the country into MCOL & LCOL cities, I asked myself what are some cities and states that are favorable for small business owners.

    It is more a general question. I am aware it depends on which business, either service/online or product, someone is focusing on.

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    Local Lead Generation Experiences

    Posted: 07 Jan 2022 02:22 AM PST

    Hello, I would like to read about your experiences on LG. How did your started and how is it going in your biz?

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