I took Lee's mentorship and I made my investment back in 2 months. I recommend it to everyone serious about being a web designer/online marketer WFH. It took me some more time to get the niche going and build my reputation/clientele. Now after 2 using Lee's strategies I have a profitable business and freedom. Thank you, Lee!
Bibi! Great to see you. Thanks for checking out the video and sharing this awesome comment! I loved seeing your pics from Brazil! The beach looked AMAZING! It looked like so much fun!
Now I want to watch every video on this channel. Hey Lee, allow me to say this, what you are saying not really new, but it the way you say it, it is authentic, very relatable, so......thank you. I am putting money to join your program surely.
Thanks Lee, for the awesome content and insightful responses. I'm a web designer and content writer, however, it's been pretty difficult getting a regular stream of leads or clients. . .kinda been off-&-on. May i ask if your leads/clients generating methods are location dependent, or they can be used anywhere you're situated across the globe?
Check out this web design pricing calculator. There's a Google Sheet you can copy and use at the bottom along with a video showing how the spreadsheet works. Let me know what you think: doublestack.net/web-design-pricing-calculator/
That's awesome! If you get a chance to come back and share the results you're getting, I'd love to hear about that! It gets me really happy and excited when you have success!
Hey Lee, this video alone made me re-think my whole business plan, so thanks! I have a doubt, at 8:36 you mentioned the google business profile optimization. How should I go about this? Should I make a video showing my client how to optimize it? or should they grant me access as an administrator or something like that? thank you!
They should add you on as a manger so you get do all the Google Business Profile work without them having to be bothered. I've got a full tutorial on exactly how to do this my mentorship programs. It's not that your clients CAN'T do this themselves. The value is that they SHOULDN'T distract themselves from their main specialty to do the stuff that you can do better and faster. So, to some degree, targeting the right clients is important. For example, why would a chiropractor stop making hundreds of thousands of dollars helping people live healthier lives to log into a Google Business Profile? That wouldn't make any sense.
Lee, how do I decide what price point to wnter the market / niche as a beginner. Even to find the best niche to target? I am a beginner web designer and want to some advice on running ads and how to acquire the right customers ! Any advice would help. Thanks
I almost never see anyone running ads successfully for web design. The fastest way to get clients is through in-person relationships like networking events, meetups, and even just one-on-one interactions with business owners. I think the most important thing that sets us apart is the ability to offer more than just a website. It's important to offer something that's comprehensive enough to move the needle - at least a little bit - for the client. So, there needs to be something to drive traffic, something to pull leads from that traffic, and something to convert those leads into clients. A really good entry-level service that checks a lot of these boxes is Google Business Profile Management - or at least helping people get reviews on Google. The platform we use for this is called Reviews On My Website which you can find here: lee.blue/reviewsonmywebsite That's an affiliate link, but I asked them to apply half of my commission to discount the price for you so everybody wins. :)
Hi Lee, great stuff. Would love to know as an agency what tools/costs associated with them that you need to have for it for all the things you mention in your videos that you offer to your clients, such as WP theme, page builders, email marketing tools, SEO tools, videos making/editing, podcasting etc.. Thank you!
@doublestack, So is the $850 a month just for the website retainer? Are you charging a setup fee? Are the additional skills like GMB setup and maintenance an addon monthly cost to the $850?
Thanks you! I'm glad you found the video and I hope you come back for more. If you subscribe you'll get a notification every week when I drop new videos. Thanks for being part of our community here on RUclips!
Hey Lee, really interesting video! Appreciate all the effort you put into these! I'm kinda doing this for 2 clients of mine, regular website updates, local SEO and social media marketing. For around 500/month. Only thing is, I'm trying to get more clients by doing my own social media marketing, facebook ads, but there's no leads coming in really.. Any tips on what to try next, maybe cold emails or something? :)
Yes! Have you seen my video about Small Favor Marketing? ruclips.net/video/Ct3rUjolhjA/видео.html Let me know what you think. If you want, I can help you put together a Small Favor Marketing offer in Blue Theory as well. That's a big part of what we do because it can be a little confusing to figure out what your small favor should be. I'm here to help in any way I can. So keep me posted! Also, thanks for watching the videos and being part of our community here on RUclips!
Lee, thanks for providing your audience with these valuable knowledge. It's helping me to make my final preparations towards achieving my dream. I just have one problem and would like to ask you for your help, if you don't mind. Apart from building and hosting website for your clients, what other items do you include in your package? Do you mind making a video on this subject? `Edit`: You gave the items your marketing package. 😂😂
Thanks for checking out the video and for sharing it! Sharing is caring :) Let me know if there's anything else I can do to support you. Thanks for being here.
Thanks Lee. I have a design and UX/usability and SEO background. I work with my wife in the business together (no other income streams, yet). We took on a new client for hosting and support with a modest annual budget. They paid for a diagnostic with recommendations and their website has so many issues. It took 40 hours to do the diagnostic and audits which we overdelivered massively, working through the night on several days. Didnt see much of our daughters over half term with all this work. We costed for fixing and its almost as much as a redesign. What do you do in these cases? They were not expecting the estimated costs (500 page website). Should we patch things up as much as possible within the monthly fee? I want to provide a x20 ROI and I know we can, it just needs way more hours. Cheers!
When I'm working with a huge site (like this 500 page site), I try to chunk it up and redesign sections based on the ad campaigns we're running and where the traffic is coming from. In other words, I make fresh "funnels" with the new branding and design for them. I'd need to know more about this client to figure out exactly what I'd offer them, but it would be really fun to work with you on developing a pitch for this. If you hop into Blue Theory we can strategize about this in the Water Cooler (our live feedback channel). I'm in there all day working on stuff like this with people. Just tag me in a post, and we'll put our heads together and get an offer dialed in for this client. Lee.Blue/
Are many of your students seeing success building sites and offering SEO while working full time? Just wondering if you teach outsourcing and creating teams and systems inside the training…
A bunch of people in Blue Theory have full-time jobs as they build their own businesses. So, yes, you can definitely see success even if you have limited time to work on your business. Here's a summary of how it can all work. I like to allocate 25 hours to the initial setup work, like building the website, the logo, writing the site copy, etc. If you only have a couple of hours per day, this would give you about two weeks to build and launch the website, which is good. Then, for the monthly maintenance and marketing plan, I like to allocate 2.5 hours per week per client. For pricing, I charge $2,500 - $3,500 for the setup and $850/mo for the monthly maintenance and marketing plan. I also recommend devoting at least 3 - 5 hours per week to marketing your business (finding clients). So, if you have 1-2 hours per day to devote to your web design business, you could land one client per month until you have five total clients on monthly retainers. That would put your cap at about $60,000/year in annual revenue.
Hi Lee, I'm currently working full time and looking for ways to generate additional income. Is it possible to achieve success with an hour or two a night? I don't want to land clients and not be able to take care of them properly. Thank you.
I like to allocate 25 hours to the initial setup work, like building the website, the logo, writing the site copy, etc. At your capacity, this would give you two weeks to build and launch the website, which is good. Then, for the monthly maintenance and marketing plan, I like to allocate 2.5 hours per week per client. For that, I charge $2,500 - $3,500 for the setup and $850/mo for the monthly maintenance and marketing plan. Lastly, I also recommend devoting at least 3 - 5 hours per week to marketing your business (finding clients). So, with your current availability, you could probably land one client per month until you have five total clients on monthly retainers. That would put your cap at about $60,000/year in annual revenue, given your current time restrictions.
@@teddycain8982 Thank you! I love to talk about this stuff and it is really exciting when people want to get into web design and marketing. It's one of those areas in life where you can truly have win-win situations. You can make an awesome living while helping other people make an awesome living. I appreciate you! Thanks for this comment and for being part of our community here on RUclips. I drop new videos every week so I hope you come back again :)
That's exciting! I'd love to help you get your web dev business up and running. Hop over to Blue Theory, and we can get started whenever you're ready: Lee.Blue/
@@DoubleStack Just one question...how good do your development skills have to be? I can make a website from a wp template but coding a whole template that is a different story lol
@@codeAlongwith you don’t need to code anything. If you can build a website with WordPress and a page builder/theme like Elementor, Kadence WP, Beaver Builder, etc. I can show you some marketing strategies and help you get clients.
I can help with that. That's one of the main points of Blue Theory, actually. There are things you can pick up really quickly that you can charge monthly for and that make a big difference for the client. For example, managing their Google Business Profile and helping people get more reviews. There are also some "Local SEO Essentials" you can pick up on your own really quick. Plus, you can always outsource some of the marketing. We've got white-label services for SEO, Copywriting, and Social Media Management if you want a quick way to scale without having to do more stuff yourself.
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I took Lee's mentorship and I made my investment back in 2 months. I recommend it to everyone serious about being a web designer/online marketer WFH. It took me some more time to get the niche going and build my reputation/clientele. Now after 2 using Lee's strategies I have a profitable business and freedom. Thank you, Lee!
Bibi! Great to see you. Thanks for checking out the video and sharing this awesome comment! I loved seeing your pics from Brazil! The beach looked AMAZING! It looked like so much fun!
Now I want to watch every video on this channel. Hey Lee, allow me to say this, what you are saying not really new, but it the way you say it, it is authentic, very relatable, so......thank you. I am putting money to join your program surely.
Literally 2 seconds in I loved this man just by his voice! LETS GO🙏❤️
I love the energy Big Eddie! LETS GO!!! Thanks for watching the video and being part of our community here. Also, Happy Thanksgiving!
This is great advice, especially for starting out... I love the concept of this video. You covered it all in easy to understand steps.
Thanks Lee, for the awesome content and insightful responses.
I'm a web designer and content writer, however, it's been pretty difficult getting a regular stream of leads or clients. . .kinda been off-&-on.
May i ask if your leads/clients generating methods are location dependent, or they can be used anywhere you're situated across the globe?
Hey Lee, how do you go about the pricing ? That will be something worthy to learn!
Check out this web design pricing calculator. There's a Google Sheet you can copy and use at the bottom along with a video showing how the spreadsheet works. Let me know what you think: doublestack.net/web-design-pricing-calculator/
This video is going to change my life. 😮
That's awesome! If you get a chance to come back and share the results you're getting, I'd love to hear about that! It gets me really happy and excited when you have success!
Hey Lee, this video alone made me re-think my whole business plan, so thanks! I have a doubt, at 8:36 you mentioned the google business profile optimization. How should I go about this? Should I make a video showing my client how to optimize it? or should they grant me access as an administrator or something like that? thank you!
They should add you on as a manger so you get do all the Google Business Profile work without them having to be bothered. I've got a full tutorial on exactly how to do this my mentorship programs. It's not that your clients CAN'T do this themselves. The value is that they SHOULDN'T distract themselves from their main specialty to do the stuff that you can do better and faster. So, to some degree, targeting the right clients is important. For example, why would a chiropractor stop making hundreds of thousands of dollars helping people live healthier lives to log into a Google Business Profile? That wouldn't make any sense.
@@DoubleStack makes sense, thanks for replying!!
Lee, how do I decide what price point to wnter the market / niche as a beginner. Even to find the best niche to target? I am a beginner web designer and want to some advice on running ads and how to acquire the right customers ! Any advice would help. Thanks
I almost never see anyone running ads successfully for web design. The fastest way to get clients is through in-person relationships like networking events, meetups, and even just one-on-one interactions with business owners. I think the most important thing that sets us apart is the ability to offer more than just a website. It's important to offer something that's comprehensive enough to move the needle - at least a little bit - for the client. So, there needs to be something to drive traffic, something to pull leads from that traffic, and something to convert those leads into clients. A really good entry-level service that checks a lot of these boxes is Google Business Profile Management - or at least helping people get reviews on Google. The platform we use for this is called Reviews On My Website which you can find here:
lee.blue/reviewsonmywebsite
That's an affiliate link, but I asked them to apply half of my commission to discount the price for you so everybody wins. :)
Really Great Explaination but are you looking for a video editor for your channel?
Hi Lee, great stuff. Would love to know as an agency what tools/costs associated with them that you need to have for it for all the things you mention in your videos that you offer to your clients, such as WP theme, page builders, email marketing tools, SEO tools, videos making/editing, podcasting etc.. Thank you!
@doublestack, So is the $850 a month just for the website retainer? Are you charging a setup fee? Are the additional skills like GMB setup and maintenance an addon monthly cost to the $850?
its for a marketing retainer from what I gather
Do a video for creating price packages
Awesome content 😊
Thanks you! I'm glad you found the video and I hope you come back for more. If you subscribe you'll get a notification every week when I drop new videos. Thanks for being part of our community here on RUclips!
Hey Lee, really interesting video! Appreciate all the effort you put into these!
I'm kinda doing this for 2 clients of mine, regular website updates, local SEO and social media marketing. For around 500/month.
Only thing is, I'm trying to get more clients by doing my own social media marketing, facebook ads, but there's no leads coming in really.. Any tips on what to try next, maybe cold emails or something? :)
Yes! Have you seen my video about Small Favor Marketing?
ruclips.net/video/Ct3rUjolhjA/видео.html
Let me know what you think. If you want, I can help you put together a Small Favor Marketing offer in Blue Theory as well. That's a big part of what we do because it can be a little confusing to figure out what your small favor should be. I'm here to help in any way I can. So keep me posted! Also, thanks for watching the videos and being part of our community here on RUclips!
Lee, thanks for providing your audience with these valuable knowledge. It's helping me to make my final preparations towards achieving my dream.
I just have one problem and would like to ask you for your help, if you don't mind.
Apart from building and hosting website for your clients, what other items do you include in your package? Do you mind making a video on this subject?
`Edit`:
You gave the items your marketing package. 😂😂
So the $850/m doesn't include ad cost, it's just your service fee?
Love this Lee! Sharing with my marketing young adult family... looking for opportunities.
Thanks for checking out the video and for sharing it! Sharing is caring :) Let me know if there's anything else I can do to support you. Thanks for being here.
Thanks Lee. I have a design and UX/usability and SEO background. I work with my wife in the business together (no other income streams, yet). We took on a new client for hosting and support with a modest annual budget. They paid for a diagnostic with recommendations and their website has so many issues. It took 40 hours to do the diagnostic and audits which we overdelivered massively, working through the night on several days. Didnt see much of our daughters over half term with all this work.
We costed for fixing and its almost as much as a redesign. What do you do in these cases? They were not expecting the estimated costs (500 page website).
Should we patch things up as much as possible within the monthly fee? I want to provide a x20 ROI and I know we can, it just needs way more hours. Cheers!
When I'm working with a huge site (like this 500 page site), I try to chunk it up and redesign sections based on the ad campaigns we're running and where the traffic is coming from. In other words, I make fresh "funnels" with the new branding and design for them.
I'd need to know more about this client to figure out exactly what I'd offer them, but it would be really fun to work with you on developing a pitch for this. If you hop into Blue Theory we can strategize about this in the Water Cooler (our live feedback channel). I'm in there all day working on stuff like this with people. Just tag me in a post, and we'll put our heads together and get an offer dialed in for this client. Lee.Blue/
Are many of your students seeing success building sites and offering SEO while working full time?
Just wondering if you teach outsourcing and creating teams and systems inside the training…
A bunch of people in Blue Theory have full-time jobs as they build their own businesses. So, yes, you can definitely see success even if you have limited time to work on your business. Here's a summary of how it can all work.
I like to allocate 25 hours to the initial setup work, like building the website, the logo, writing the site copy, etc. If you only have a couple of hours per day, this would give you about two weeks to build and launch the website, which is good.
Then, for the monthly maintenance and marketing plan, I like to allocate 2.5 hours per week per client.
For pricing, I charge $2,500 - $3,500 for the setup and $850/mo for the monthly maintenance and marketing plan.
I also recommend devoting at least 3 - 5 hours per week to marketing your business (finding clients).
So, if you have 1-2 hours per day to devote to your web design business, you could land one client per month until you have five total clients on monthly retainers. That would put your cap at about $60,000/year in annual revenue.
cool man
I have a question, are you charging your clients $850 a month plus ad spend?
Yes, the $850 is just the management fee for all the stuff we're doing. The client pays directly for the ad spend.
Hi Lee,
I'm currently working full time and looking for ways to generate additional income. Is it possible to achieve success with an hour or two a night? I don't want to land clients and not be able to take care of them properly. Thank you.
I like to allocate 25 hours to the initial setup work, like building the website, the logo, writing the site copy, etc. At your capacity, this would give you two weeks to build and launch the website, which is good. Then, for the monthly maintenance and marketing plan, I like to allocate 2.5 hours per week per client. For that, I charge $2,500 - $3,500 for the setup and $850/mo for the monthly maintenance and marketing plan. Lastly, I also recommend devoting at least 3 - 5 hours per week to marketing your business (finding clients). So, with your current availability, you could probably land one client per month until you have five total clients on monthly retainers. That would put your cap at about $60,000/year in annual revenue, given your current time restrictions.
NEVER EVER have I heard such a thoughtful response to a youtuber comment. Love the love there SIR!!
@@DoubleStack
@@teddycain8982 Thank you! I love to talk about this stuff and it is really exciting when people want to get into web design and marketing. It's one of those areas in life where you can truly have win-win situations. You can make an awesome living while helping other people make an awesome living. I appreciate you! Thanks for this comment and for being part of our community here on RUclips. I drop new videos every week so I hope you come back again :)
@@DoubleStack subbed 🛎️
@@teddycain8982 you're the best! Thanks, Teddy!
Hi Lee, I have wanted to be a web dev for years now. How much is your course and where do I sign up?
That's exciting! I'd love to help you get your web dev business up and running. Hop over to Blue Theory, and we can get started whenever you're ready: Lee.Blue/
@@DoubleStack Just one question...how good do your development skills have to be? I can make a website from a wp template but coding a whole template that is a different story lol
@@codeAlongwith you don’t need to code anything. If you can build a website with WordPress and a page builder/theme like Elementor, Kadence WP, Beaver Builder, etc. I can show you some marketing strategies and help you get clients.
What if you know 0 about marketing and SEO?
I can help with that. That's one of the main points of Blue Theory, actually. There are things you can pick up really quickly that you can charge monthly for and that make a big difference for the client. For example, managing their Google Business Profile and helping people get more reviews. There are also some "Local SEO Essentials" you can pick up on your own really quick. Plus, you can always outsource some of the marketing. We've got white-label services for SEO, Copywriting, and Social Media Management if you want a quick way to scale without having to do more stuff yourself.