Selling Websites …Where to start? How to furnish the client?

  • Having thoughts about getting more involved in selling website services but I’m a little unsure how it would work with wordpress?

    I’m self taught so there’s a steep learning curve ahead and I’m planning to educate myself further but for a start I’m curious to know how do you use wordpress to furnish the needs of the client?

    Once you have built the site for a client is it simply a matter of giving them access as administrator and leaving the rest up to them (except when they need your help of course)? …OR is there some way of exporting the finished site so they can use it as they like?

    I’m very new to WP but from what I can tell it seems that for every client, you would pretty much have to set them up with the website installed on a server (unless they have their own or want it built with WP hosting). Also, unless of course you provide the hosting one way or another yourself then the websites stay with you and they simply have admin access to their site.

    What’s the standard way to do this? Is there one?

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  • Yes, that’s one way to do it, but I think it really depends on the situation – there’s not really a “one size fits all” answer. What is the client comfortable with, who’s going to manage the site long-term, what’s your relationship with the client, etc. Think about it from the client’s end – what do they need to know and do to be able to set-up and maintain the site – or are you going to do everything now and in the future? Then think about if from your end – what do you want to do, what are you willing and able to do, what are you going to charge?

    Your idea of creating sites for hostels (or whatever) is great – but you need to think about how that will work after you are done and gone. That’s vastly different from your friends wanting a site.

    Don’t forget that WordPress.COM sites might be a good option for some people – there’s less freedom, but less overhead/maintenance too.

    @mistinm – your question is not the same as the original poster, cheekyface, so you should probably start your own topic if you have further questions.

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    @wpyogi Thanks so much for helping to clarify CheekFace’s original question for me. It was along the same lines…so I needed an answer similar and thought I’d jump in since this a forum after all. But you helped a lot!

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    @mistinm – please note that we do encourage people to start their own threads – in fact, I was the one who did not notice that you were not the OP (my mistake). These forums are a bit different from many other ones in that way. It’s also not okay to be rude to people who are helping out here even if you don’t like a reply. Jess was stating the forum policy and was not in any way being rude to you.

    In any case, I’m glad your question was answered, but I think this thread is finished at this point.

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