Journey to $2000/month. (Web Design)

[Deleted member 1085379]

Hi, I’m Dani – I’m 16 years old and I’m a creative hustler.

I’ve been experimenting for as long as I remember. For the past year I’ve earned $2500, which is not that much, but it’s certainly something.

I plan on taking things more seriously now. My goal is to reach $2000/month with web design.​

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My business model:
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I will help web design agencies outsource their work to me for $500/each website.

I will need to make one website a week, which is definitely doable for me. I'll begin charging $250/site for my first clients.​

What I have so far:
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• Elementor Pro ($200/year - expiring August 2019)
• Envato Elements ($230/year - expiring December 2019)
• 3 websites completed, to use in my portfolio.
• 3 testimonials from past clients.
• Voice over from Fiverr for my promo video, which I’m working on at the moment. (I have 2 years of motion graphics experience before I began web design)

What I need to do:
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• Complete my promo video (it's 30 secs long, 10 seconds are finished)
• Get a neat logo from Fiverr
• Write a copy for my website
• Build my website (add the promo video in it, as well as the 3 websites as examples)
• Use facebook groups (and my fb profile) to promote my service to agencies/entrepreneurs.

 

[Exitwound]

Sounds like a plan, best of luck.

 

[Bread]

How do you feel about Envato Elements and Elementor Pro?

Looking at doing the same thing and have had my eye on both, but haven't pulled the trigger

 

[SandyBox]

Hi, I’m Dani – I’m 16 years old and I’m a creative hustler.

I’ve been experimenting for as long as I remember. For the past year I’ve earned $2500, which is not that much, but it’s certainly something.

I plan on taking things more seriously now. My goal is to reach $2000/month with web design.​

​

My business model:
-=-=-=-=-=-​

I will help web design agencies outsource their work to me for $500/each website.

I will need to make one website a week, which is definitely doable for me. I'll begin charging $250/site for my first clients.​

What I have so far:
-=-=-=-=-=-​

• Elementor Pro ($200/year - expiring August 2019)
• Envato Elements ($230/year - expiring December 2019)
• 3 websites completed, to use in my portfolio.
• 3 testimonials from past clients.
• Voice over from Fiverr for my promo video, which I’m working on at the moment. (I have 2 years of motion graphics experience before I began web design)

What I need to do:
-=-=-=-=-=-​

• Complete my promo video (it's 30 secs long, 10 seconds are finished)
• Get a neat logo from Fiverr
• Write a copy for my website
• Build my website (add the promo video in it, as well as the 3 websites as examples)
• Use facebook groups (and my fb profile) to promote my service to agencies/entrepreneurs.

Hi Daniel, great plan you have put up, I also doing the same at the moment, gravitating towards IM/Clickbank while building the portfolio for web design jobs. I didnt want to enter the Fiverr gig as it seems quite competitive for beginners with little to show. Do you have a portfolio up so we could take a look?

Best of luck!

edit: typo

 

[mazenbensaid]

Hey bro, first I wish you good luck in your journey
I've a question.. do you just use WordPress and some builders or you're coding websites from 0 ?
Thanks

 

[Deleted member 1085379]

Hi Daniel, great plan you have put up, I also doing the same at the moment, gravitating towards IM/Clickbank while building the portfolio for web design jobs. I didnt want to enter the Fiverr gig as it seems quite competitive for beginners with little to show. Do you have a portfolio up so we could take a look?

Best of luck!

edit: typo

Hi, yeah I do have a portfolio. Here are some sites.

design1.danidimitrov.com
design2.danidimitrov.com
design3.danidimitrov.com

Hey bro, first I wish you good luck in your journey
I've a question.. do you just use WordPress and some builders or you're coding websites from 0 ?
Thanks

I use Wordpress + Elementor Pro (a page builder).

 

[Deleted member 1085379]

How do you feel about Envato Elements and Elementor Pro?

Looking at doing the same thing and have had my eye on both, but haven't pulled the trigger

I started from scratch without buying anything. It was fine, but Envato and Elementor definitely help a lot. Especially Elementor. (Envato Elements is a cool addition, but you'll definitely do just fine without it. I use it for stuff like promo videos as well - really handy to have access to all that footage, music, etc.)

 

[Stuffedegg]

I just want to ask, why do you want/need to outsource a logo if you have experience with graphics? It is a genuine question, I am not trying to be rude.

 

[daniyelbrain]

best plan, best of luck

 

[malogrido]

Good plan, web design is very profitable if you have the skills.
Luck to you.

 

[Deleted member 1085379]

I just want to ask, why do you want/need to outsource a logo if you have experience with graphics? It is a genuine question, I am not trying to be rude.

Well, I'm sure I can make something myself but it won't be as good as someone who specializes in logo design. Graphics is a very broad term - I'm mediocre at some things and confident in others.

 

[quierosermillonario]

Solid plan, OP! Wish you all the success. Can I ask where you started learning web design?

 

[Ekame]

i follow u <3

 

[Deleted member 719276]

Good luck my fellow Bulgarian hustler.

 

[ZuzuSlav]

Was wondering how comes you chose Elementor and not Divi?

Have you worked with the Divi theme?

I've been working with it for 2 years now and wondering if I should switch to Elementor or not,

 

[mhtro]

You should learn to work with Genesis framework. It will benefit you a lot in the long term.
Good luck though!

 

[mnyhunter]

Good Plan,
Always try to happy your clients. If you have 20-30 happy clients, then they will continuously hire you for their work.
Best of luck.

 

[Deleted member 1085379]

Solid plan, OP! Wish you all the success. Can I ask where you started learning web design?

Youtube videos, Elementor's not rocket science - pretty easy. But knowing how to work with Adobe software benefited me a lot (which I learned through youtube as well). I don't know how to code, just a bit of CSS that I learned throughout my journey of web design. I plan on eventually learning JS and CSS in order to remove the limitations that I have at the moment.

Good luck my fellow Bulgarian hustler.

Thanks bratle :'D

Was wondering how comes you chose Elementor and not Divi?

Have you worked with the Divi theme?

I've been working with it for 2 years now and wondering if I should switch to Elementor or not,

I tried Divi in the past and found it non-intuitive to use. Elementor constantly delivers new features and I'm strongly biased towards it. I do think that it is 'the' pagebuilder for Wordpress.

You should learn to work with Genesis framework. It will benefit you a lot in the long term.
Good luck though!

Thank you, I suppose that I'll take a look at it when I get started with coding. For now I plan on sticking to the way I currently do things - blank theme (Elementor Hello Theme) + Elementor itself.

Good Plan,
Always try to happy your clients. If you have 20-30 happy clients, then they will continuously hire you for their work.
Best of luck.

Indeed! I'm always trying to add bonuses, deliver great value to my clients and most of the time it pays back! Thanks for the good wishes.

 

[awesomewebsites]

Nice to see a young guy starting so early. Good luck for the journey.

 

[Compazz]

Solid plan, consider making a website design with photoshop to save you cash untill aproved and send images samples to business in your local area if you plan on doing this in bulk and offer them some sort of discounts, support, maintenance etc it will help you too good luck .