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Selling WordPress websites to clients. Is it worth it?
Selling WordPress websites to clients is definitely worth it! However, selling WordPress websites to clients is just the tip of the iceberg on how you can make money with WordPress.
In this post, I’m not only going to go through how selling WordPress websites to clients can be a profitable income stream, but I will also answer some relevant and frequently asked questions around the subject of selling WordPress websites to clients as well.
How to make WordPress websites for clients.
How to make WordPress websites for clients all depends on your WordPress skill levels and experience.
If you are a WordPress developer and have experience coding in PHP as well as JavaScript, HTML, CSS and are experienced in creating WordPress websites from scratch, then you can actually make a WordPress website for your clients yourself, by hard coding it.
However, if you are not a coder or have very little experience with PHP as well as the other coding languages used in WordPress development, then you have basically a couple of other options.
First, you can either contract with a WordPress developer to have them develop and create a WordPress website from scratch for your client. However, this can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars.
You can also take a paid theme or even a free theme that you are experienced in using then customize it by changing the look, colors, fonts, boxes etc.
If you have experience with using plugins, you can then complete this WordPress website for your clients by including various functionality based on what they want there website to do.
Selling other WordPress services.
Building upon the above, you can not only make money selling WordPress websites to your clients, you can also offer a wide range of WordPress services to go along with that website.
For example, you can become a web hosting provider yourself. Yes, many web hosting providers that offer web hosting also offer “Reseller” packages.
As a “Reseller” you basically buy server space from a web hosting company.
You can then resell this web server space to provide hosting for those WordPress websites that you have sold to your customers.
Most Reselling Plans do offer a white label service. You can simply list your company as the web hosting company for your client’s WordPress websites and bill them accordingly.
In addition to offering web hosting for your clients WordPress websites, you can also offer to manage their WordPress websites as well.
Managing a WordPress website can include:
- Updating their content.
- Making sure their themes and plugins are also up to date.
- Securing their website.
- Publishing posts, images and other content.
- Offer SEO services.
- Provide online marketing services, for example, create Facebook and Instagram Ad campaigns, Google AdWords or Pinterest Ad campaigns, etc.
Can I make money making WordPress websites?
You definitely can make money making WordPress websites for your clients, as I had mentioned above.
If you’re a developer then you can basically code a WordPress website from scratch, if you know how to code in PHP, JavaScript etc.
You can then sell custom made websites either through your own website or offer a free version on WordPress.org. Then sell a premium version of that same website.
If you’re not a developer you could still make money with WordPress websites following some of the advice I had already given above.
In addition, to that advice, you can also become an affiliate for numerous WordPress themes available online from WordPress marketplaces as well as independent developers. Most WordPress theme affiliate programs offer excellent commissions.
In fact, you not only can make money and mark up the sale of a WordPress theme that someone else has made for your client, you can also get an affiliate commission on top of the sale price for that very same theme, if the developer or marketplace that you’ve gotten that theme from offers an affiliate program.
Can you make money selling WordPress templates?
Absolutely! Many WordPress developers and theme marketplaces have affiliate programs.
These programs allow you to sell their WordPress theme templates on your own website in exchange for a commission.
WordPress theme commissions can be quite generous offering up to 40% commissions on every theme sold through your affiliate link. Try getting those commissions from Amazon.
How much is a website worth?
This depends on the website.
If you’re selling a basic theme, hosting as well as managing a WordPress website along with domain name registration, then you can basically take the total cost that each of those would entail and mark up a profit for yourself.
Your price should also include your time and effort in bringing that website to the internet.
However, if you are selling an already established website along with its content etc., then most websites nowadays usually go for between 20 to 40 times it’s monthly revenue.
A website’s monthly revenue could be generated in the form of display advertising, affiliate programs and products, informational products etc.
If you are selling a website based on a local business, product or service or if you have not monetized that website through the more traditional methods above, then you can sell that website based upon the amount of traffic i.e. the amount of “visitors it receives over a month’s time. etc.
How does a website make money?
A website can make money in various ways. The most popular ways a website can make money include:
- Offering a product or service to your local community.
- Put display advertising on your website.
- Join affiliate programs and put products and services related to your website’s content and make commissions through the affiliate links provided by the affiliate program.
- You can also offer your own info product.
Simply use one or a combination of all the above methods to make money with a website.
As you can see, there are various ways a website can make money.
Can I use free templates for my website?
Absolutely! You can find free templates for your website on WordPress.org or from your WordPress website’s dashboard.
Simply go to themes on the right side column of your dashboard. Look for themes, then click. In the themes section at the top right there will be a search button.
You will actually have your pick of literally hundreds, if not thousands of WordPress themes that are available for free.
In fact, everything offered on WordPress.org has to have a free version in order to be listed on WordPress.org.
You should also know that most WordPress themes do have a premium version which is of course paid.
But if you would like to get started with WordPress and don’t want to invest the money into a theme, then you can of course start for free.
However, you should know also that premium versions of free themes aren’t as expensive as you may think. You can get a great WordPress theme and it’s premium version with all the support and updates included, for under $100.
Of course, most premium themes do have yearly subscriptions on top of the theme itself.
Usually these yearly subscriptions simply include continuous support, access to the support, the theme’s forums as well as all updates that the theme’s developer implements to that theme.
Selling WordPress websites to clients, conclusions.
Selling WordPress websites to clients is just the tip of the iceberg.
Even if you are not a skilled and experienced WordPress developer, or even no code you can still make money selling WordPress websites to clients.
In fact, selling WordPress websites is only the beginning. You can sell a whole range of ancillary WordPress products and services to support your clients WordPress website.
It just takes a little imagination and developing trust and a client base. But once you get going with WordPress, the sky can literally be the limit.
