A web design agency builds and maintains websites for businesses. Projects bring upfront income; monthly care plans (hosting, updates, edits, SEO) bring recurring income. Specialising in one industry makes selling easy.
You design and build websites (often with WordPress, Webflow, Shopify or site builders), launch them, and maintain them. Many agencies add SEO, copywriting and conversion optimisation.
Project fees vary by scope from small brochure sites to large custom builds. Monthly care plans add predictable income; ten care-plan clients at a modest monthly fee add up fast.
A laptop, a website builder or WordPress stack, and a portfolio of 3 sites (your own and spec projects).
Two $2,500 projects a month plus 15 care plans at $99 a month is about $6,500 a month.
Most of the tools have free plans. Sell a service first, get paid, then pay for better tools and build products from what clients buy.
Use your phone, laptop, car and basic tools. Offer one service or product first and buy only what your first few customers need.
Let customers fund your start: founding-member offers, pre-orders and deposits pay for kit and stock before you spend your own money. Always set a real start date and offer refunds if you can't deliver.
Evenings and weekends first. Your salary pays the bills while the business proves itself, so you never have to borrow to live.
Small loans with support, made for new businesses.
Free help with business plans, loan applications and pricing.
Grants for starting a for-profit business are rare and competitive, but local and sector grants and start-up competitions do exist. Real grants never ask you to pay a fee.
Rewards crowdfunding (Kickstarter-style pre-orders) suits products. Equity crowdfunding suits businesses that can grow big.
Put every amount in writing: loan or share, repayment plan, and what happens if it doesn't work. Only take money people can afford to lose.
Spread the cost of kit, vans or machines, or buy second-hand. Compare the total amount repayable, not just the monthly payment.
Only for businesses that can grow big. Investors take a share of your business in return.
Borrowing is a risk. Only borrow for things that clearly earn money back, never to cover living costs, and read the full terms. Avoid high-interest credit cards and payday loans for start-up costs. This is general information, not financial advice. The kit includes a funding video module and ready-to-use funding templates (pre-sale offers, loan summaries, grant answers, crowdfunding copy).
An example built from this kit's own web design agency prices, with the business set up properly and the daily plan followed. Pick a scenario or change any number to match your plans.
Most people copy what everyone else does. These are the moves that make customers choose you.
Hand-picked class-style lessons from people who run a web design agency business, in the order you need them. The first lessons of every module are free to watch right here.
18 steps in six phases. Phase one is open below; every step has a checklist, and members get the linked lessons, templates and tools.
Pick a niche with demand, money and a format you can repeat.
You sell website projects and monthly care plans. Specialise in an industry, sell outcomes and keep clients on recurring plans.
Pick an industry with money and weak websites (clinics, trades, restaurants, law firms, e-commerce).
Audit 20 websites in the niche: speed, mobile, booking, reviews, SEO. Most will have obvious gaps.
Niche, audience, format, schedule, how you will earn and your 90-day goal. One page, the Blueprint template walks you through it.
Accounts, tools, brand and basic business admin in place.
Make your first 10 pieces and a process you can repeat.
Get your first real audience, traffic or customers.
Turn attention into income.
Grow beyond your own hours.
Your five content pillars and a weekly rhythm. Members get the full 365-day calendar with the platform and time for every post, plus hooks, captions, scripts, carousels and ads to fill it.
Before/after
3 mistakes on local sites
Speed up your site
More bookings after redesign
Free website audit
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Why I build sites for one industry
Add your video, photo or text post for your web design agency business. See a score for each platform, what is working, what to fix, and hooks and captions from the kit that make it stronger.
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Everything you need to understand the business and launch it, step by step.
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