Considering working side gig as website builder but no clue where to start... any suggestions?

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So I did something similar. Basically I went around and whenever I saw a truck that had something like "Ramirez Lawn Care" or "Johnson's Party Rentals" with just a phone number or especially just a generic email like Gmail or SBCGlobal, I'd call them up and say that I saw them recommended on Facebook or by a friend.

I'd tell them that I couldn't find a website for them and was curious.

Then I'd offer to build them a website for free.

I'd then build the website. Buy a domain for $1 off of Namecheap or IONOS, host the website myself, and then show them the results.

Most of the time they're very impressed. I would then offer to transfer the website to them and I would start dropping a lot of technical jargon such as hosting, FTP, SSh, cloudflare, et cetera. Most of the time they'd get really confused at that point.

I would then offer to host the website for them for a nominal monthly fee. A lot of the times they would accept. If they didn't, i would simply mention that for that fee they would have me managing the website and offering IT support for a little more than the cost of a netflix subscription.

After that you can start tacking on add ons, like you can offer quote request forms, calendar meeting requests, online booking, personalized emails, newsletters, you can design them business cards, videos, SEO optimization, ai chatbots, etc.

I personally always used wordpress or shopify.

Wordpress is the ideal option. If you go on fiver dot com, you can buy a couple of templates for maybe twenty to forty bucks. You can then find tutorials online on how to modify them. You can also learn some basic programming online as well.

Hope this helps.

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Post your skills on fiverr?

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