Offering Website Maintenance For Extra Income - RD216

<h2>Do you offer Website Maintenance to your web clients?</h2> <p>[sc name="pod_ad"]Offering Website maintenance is a great way to make extra money while putting in minimal effort. It’s right up there with print brokering as a way to supplement your design income.</p> <p class="p1">Way back in episode 9 of the podcast, I shared 12 ways designers can earn extra income. On that episode, I mentioned making extra income by offering to host your client’s websites. Since then, I’ve made a few changes to the way I operate. I no longer provide web hosting on its own. Instead, I offer website maintenance, and I make a lot more money doing so. And so can you.</p> <h2>The typical lifecycle of a web design project.</h2> <ul> <li class="p1">A client approaches you to design and build their new website.</li> <li class="p1">You agree on a price, get the contracts signed and receive your deposit.</li> <li class="p1">You get to work on their site.</li> <li class="p1">When it’s ready, you present your client with their new website.</li> <li class="p1">You make any requested adjustments until they’re thrilled with what you did for them.</li> <li class="p1">They pay the balance owing to the project, and you launch their site.</li> <li class="p1">The <a href= "https://resourcefuldesigner.com/are-your-design-clients-happy-with-your-service/"> client is happy</a> with their new website. You’re pleased with the money you earned—end of the story.</li> </ul> <p class="p1">Once this process is over, you may or may not hear from that client again until they need a new website in a few years. That’s providing they don’t meet another web designer between now and then. If they do, then all bets are off.</p> <p class="p1">But it doesn’t have to be that way.</p> <p>By offering a website maintenance plan as part of your web design services, you retain that client on the books, and chances are when they need new web work in the future, they’ll turn to you because of your ongoing relationship.</p> <p>Plus, wouldn’t it be nice to earn a recurring mo