Category: Freelancers & Agencies

How to Price Your WordPress Website Services [Guide]

How to Price Your WordPress Website Services [Guide]

Pricing is an interesting topic that rarely gets discussed so we seized the opportunity. Time and materials pricing is what works for most of my clients, but this doesn’t mean that it is the right fit for every situation. Discuss the different possible structures with your clients and find the best fit for both of you. It is ok to mix structures. Some projects may be a good fit for T&M and others may be better suited for flat rate.

How WordPress Freelancers Can Stand Out & Win More Clients

How WordPress Freelancers Can Stand Out & Win More Clients

It turns out that a freelancer will almost immediately stand out and distinguish themselves from tons of other developers and agencies if they do one simple thing. It’s so simple that it feels foolish to write an entire post about it. Yet so many people rush past it that it often goes missing. Ready?

How to Talk to Your Clients About Profitable Projects [Guide]

How to Talk to Your Clients About Profitable Projects [Guide]

This conversation is made available to help agency owners and clients understand the importance of running a profitable web project. If you’re an agency, this can help start the conversation with your clients. If you’re seeking to hire someone, this is a great primer to work with one another.

5 Ways to Market Your Website Design Business [List]

5 Ways to Market Your Website Design Business [List]

Nobody has to tell you that your website won’t sell itself. For years you’ve explained to clients that the “build it and they will come” philosophy is bogus. Why then, when it comes to your own firm, do you still find yourself questioning how to promote your web design business?

How to Get Leads & Sales for Your Freelance Business with Online Quizzes [Interview]

How to Get Leads & Sales for Your Freelance Business with Online Quizzes [Interview]

Troy talks to Josh Haynam, who is the co-founder of Interact, an online quiz software company. They talk about how online quizzes are the ultimate interactive tool that you can use to increase your conversion rate. They also talk about not only the software behind it but more importantly- the psychology.

How to Build Recurring Revenue with Existing WordPress Clients

How to Build Recurring Revenue with Existing WordPress Clients

How do you get your current clients who are paying you nothing, to start paying you something to maintain and care for their website? Many people think that their clients won’t pay, so they don’t reach out. Through coaching other website consultants, I’ve found that, in fact, it’s your current clients that know you, trust you and value your work. The majority of your existing clients are more willing to pay for a service you provide over a new client you have no track record with.

The #1 Way to Get More Sales From Existing Clients [Guide]

The #1 Way to Get More Sales From Existing Clients [Guide]

The website worksheet is a staple for my business; the process is so smooth and the strategy works to qualify the right leads. What I was failing at, however, was properly executing project requests from existing clients who already had their website built by us and were looking for new features or redesign elements. The website worksheet is great – for new clients – but many of the questions were irrelevant to an existing website client.

The Ultimate WordPress Freelancer & Agency Resource List [Complete List]

The Ultimate WordPress Freelancer & Agency Resource List [Complete List]

Life as a WordPress freelancer or agency is highly competitive. There seem to be new entrants every day and anyone can call themselves a “WordPress Expert” and underprice you while promising the same result. To compete, you need to stay at the top of your game with your skills, lead generation, business practices and more.

10 Steps to Success as a WordPress Consultant [List]

10 Steps to Success as a WordPress Consultant [List] How to Make More Money with WordPress

Here’s a succinct summary on how to succeed as a WordPress consultant (or any type of consultant) in 10 steps. We all start at the bottom, but as you grow your skills, specialties and the value that you deliver to clients you can raise your rates and grow your team.

Tired of Freelancing? 3 Ways Stop Freelancing & Make More Money [List]

Tired of Freelancing? 3 Ways Stop Freelancing & Make More Money [List]

Living one freelance project to the next. Feeling dependent on trading my time for billable hours. Having to chase down unpaid invoices. Putting out one client fire just to see another flare up. When this happens, it usually means means my subconscious mind is nudging me toward some sort of next chapter. I knew I needed to grow beyond freelancing and build a more scalable business.

Should You Ever do WordPress Client Work for Free? [Guide]

Should You Ever do WordPress Client Work for Free? [Guide]

“This project will be HUGE for your portfolio. And if this works out, it’ll lead to a bunch more work in the future.” Have you ever had a client who’s tried to lure you into doing some free work for them? Here’s how to handle it.

The WordPress Freelancer’s Guide to Building Your Professional Network [Guide]

The WordPress Freelancer’s Guide to Building Your Professional Network [Guide]

As a web developer, building your network can seem overwhelming. Regardless of whether you’re selling directly to customers, building a reseller network, or pitching to C-level executives – you need to establish a communication protocol by connecting and bonding with the right people. As Armstrong Williams once said: “Networking is an essential part of building wealth”. Here are our expert tips for growing your professional network, & why it matters.

How to Start Outsourcing & Build a Team for Your Agency

How to Start Outsourcing & Build a Team for Your Agency

One of the biggest lessons I learned as an agency owner is that as you grow, eventually you get to a point where you simply can’t do it all. At that point, it’s time to start looking into getting started with outsourcing. I’m going to go over some of the challenges, and how you can avoid common mistakes.

How to Make Your WordPress Site Attract High Quality Clients [Guide]

How to Make Your WordPress Site Attract High Quality Clients [Guide]

Do you know how to find the best clients for your WordPress business? In this article, we’ll talk about what type of strategy you can use when designing your own WordPress site to attract this kind of high-quality clientele.

How to Attract Higher Paying Clients for Your WordPress Freelance Business [Guide]

How to Attract Higher Paying Clients for Your WordPress Freelance Business [Guide]

Everyone wants to know how they can get better, high-paying clients for their web design business. So we wrote a practical guide to help you to attract those high paying website clients and establish a renowned consultancy that will organically bring in even more of those ideal clients.

How to Set Yourself Up for Success with New Clients: Expectations & Onboarding [Guide]

How to Set Yourself Up for Success with New Clients: Expectations & Onboarding [Guide]

A lot of freelancers and agency owners struggle with onboarding new clients and setting expectations. Then we feel taken advantage of by the client and resentful. The reality is that we’re the cause of the problem not our clients. But we don’t have to be – we can set ourselves up for success.

5 Ways WordPress Freelancers Can Diversify Income [List]

5 Ways WordPress Freelancers Can Diversify Income [List]

Let’s face it, freelancing isn’t so great when it comes to having control over one’s income. Luckily, through diversifying your income, you can work yourself out of such situations. In this post, we’ll explore five diverse income stream ideas that you can start putting in place right away as a kind of insurance to support your financial goals.

How to Grow Your WordPress Business with Fiverr [Guide]

How to Grow Your WordPress Business with Fiverr [Guide]

When it comes to platforms for finding clients and trying to grow your WordPress business, Fiverr probably isn’t the first place that comes to mind. However, despite its low base price point, if used correctly it can be a very powerful tool and can be a very helpful addition as part of your overall strategy.

How Company Blogs Can Earn You More Clients & Projects

How Company Blogs Can Earn You More Clients & Projects

Blogs are a powerful, and often under-rated, tool for businesses of nearly any type. This, in turn, makes them a useful tool for web developers. If you deliver a well-designed blog to your client as part of their site, it will likely increase their traffic, revenue, and the overall effectiveness of their website: earning better testimonials and a better reputation for you.

A Guide to Finding Your Perfect Clients [Guide]

A Guide to Finding Your Perfect Clients [Guide]

Clients are the lifeblood of many a business model. You need them to drive your work, pay your bills, and to really have a business running at all. So it might seem like the best thing to do is go out and call up as many potential clients as you can reach. But bad clients can ruin work you enjoy, and reaching out to clients that aren’t really suited for the exact services and approach of your business can both waste a lot of your time and hurt your growth.

How to Start Freelancing & Get Your First Client [Guide]

How to Start Freelancing & Get Your First Client [Guide]

Freelancing is a great way to make money online, and the best place to begin if you’re just starting out with your own online business. It doesn’t take much to get started, but passing that hurdle of getting your first client can be a real challenge.

15 Questions to Make Killer Client Proposals [List]

15 Questions to Make Killer Client Proposals [List]

Understanding your client is the biggest part of winning their business and exceeding their expectations to gain more business in the future. This starts with the client proposal. A great client proposal positions you as a reliable professionals and sets the tone for the project. Here are the 15 must-ask questions to deliver winning client proposals.

How to Close More Leads With the Anti-Follow Up [Guide]

How to Close More Leads With the Anti-Follow Up [Guide]

Are you having trouble closing leads? Changing how you follow-up with prospective clients could help. Many freelancers follow up in a way that seems desperate, which could be a turn-off to prospective clients. Instead, try following up in a way that builds authority, positions you as an expert and builds a relationship.

The WordPress Web Developer Honor Code

The WordPress Web Developer Honor Code

The average small business has a poor experience having their business website built on WordPress. As WordPress professionals, this is a failure on our part. If, as a community of WordPress professionals, we can align on the kind of consistent, quality experience we want to give out clients (the one they deserve), we’ll raise the bar in the WordPress ecosystem and our rates will raise accordingly.

The Ultimate WordPress Web Design Client Project Questionnaire [Template]

The Ultimate WordPress Web Design Client Project Questionnaire [Template]

If you’ve been a WordPress freelancer for a while then you probably already know that how a client project begins is a pretty good indicator of how it will end up. A questionnaire is your secret weapon to ensure you ask the right question every time and your client gives you everything you need to exceed their expectations. Here’s how to create the ultimate WordPress client project questionnaire.

5 Ideas for Generating WordPress Web Design Leads [List]

5 Ideas for Generating WordPress Web Design Leads [List]

As the WordPress freelance market continues to grow it also continues to get more competitive, so we’re always looking for new ways to consistently generate quality leads. From coworking spaces to Upwork and online classifieds, this post gives you 5 new ways to generate leads for your freelance WordPress web design business.

25 Ways for WordPress Freelancers to Get More Leads [List]

25 Ways for WordPress Freelancers to Get More Leads [List]

The hardest part about life as a WordPress freelancers is consistently generating quality leads. If you’re new to freelancing how do you first get that leads flywheel going over the first few years? Here are 25 ways to generate qualified leads that you can start doing today.

How to Start & Grow a Freelance Business [Guide]

How to Start & Grow a Freelance Business [Guide]

This guide focuses on getting more leads, growing referrals and streamlining how you get new clients–which will be one of the most important parts of sustaining and growing your business. There’s plenty of WordPress work to go around, but the best jobs are competitive–this guide will give you the edge you need to make it rain!

10 Ways to Make More Money as a WordPress Freelancer [List]

10 Ways to Make More Money as a WordPress Freelancer [List]

Freelancing is great because you’re in control, work your own hours and can work from wherever you want. But to be financially successful as a WordPress freelancer you have to charge rates that support your financial goals.Here are 10 tops for increasing your rates as a WordPress freelancer.

24 Ways WordPress Web Professionals Can Diversify Income [List]

24 Ways WordPress Web Professionals Can Diversify Income [List]

Sometimes life as a WordPress freelancer can be feast or famine. Adding different revenue streams to diversify your income not only helps level out your cashflow, but it also give you more options to reduce burnout. Here are 24 ways to do it.

50+ Tools to Make Your WordPress Freelance Business Scale [List]

50+ Tools to Make Your WordPress Freelance Business Scale [List]

Freelancing is great, but it’s a lot of work. Using the right tools will simplify your workflow and automate redundant processes to help scale your business. This list of tools for WordPress freelancers includes everything from scheduling to storage tools to help your WordPress business scale.

5 Ways to Create a Winning Marketing Strategy for Your WordPress Agency [List]

5 Ways to Create a Winning Marketing Strategy for Your WordPress Agency [List]

Why should prospective clients hire your WordPress agency? That question seems to be getting harder these days, but there are some things you can do to stand out and land more clients.

How (& Why) You Can Make More Money by Retaining Clients

How (& Why) You Can Make More Money by Retaining Clients

Searching for new clients is a big part of business, but retaining clients can often drive higher long-term revenue which is what makes businesses last. Learn how to make your WordPress business more profitable and increase referrals by retaining clients.

2 Skills for Successful WordPress Freelancers & Agencies

2 Skills for Successful WordPress Freelancers & Agencies

I’ve been coaching startups and entrepreneurs for over a decade. But recently (over the last couple years), I’ve started working with freelancers. And in case you were wondering – it’s a different thing. So today I want to highlight two skills that I think every consultant – but especially freelancers – needs to develop.

How to Start a WordPress Web Development Business [Interview]

How to Start a WordPress Web Development Business [Interview]

WordPress Architect Mario Peshev shares his wisdom on starting a web development business. We cover everything from advice for those who want to start a web development company, to the tools, education, and experience needed to become a developer.

20 Ways to Find More WordPress Clients [List]

20 Ways to Find More WordPress Clients [List]

I think we can all agree that one of the most stressful things about having your own business is bringing in new clients. Have you ever wondered how others are doing it and seem to be doing so well at it? We did too! So, we took a poll within our WP Elevation Facebook community to find out how our members are bringing in new business.

Lead Generation for Small Businesses (the Right Way!)

Lead Generation for Small Businesses (the Right Way!)

Small businesses often struggle to find new people who are interested in their product or service. Other than paying to be seen by potential clients, such as with pay-per-click ads, how else can a small business compete? That’s exactly where organic lead generation comes into play.