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by 66d8kk 4265 days ago
We started using Weebly for projects where clients neither had the budget or the technical requirement for anything beyond basic. We've done four in as many weeks, it really is proving itself to be a resourceful little tool.

Even though I kind of hate dragging those component around, the reality is that the little tool has made the company I work for upwards of £3k this month at a time where the team are between more technical projects. Win, win....for now!
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nedwin 4265 days ago
What are you charging a client to build a site for them on Weebly?
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66d8kk 4263 days ago
Anything between £600 - £1200 (so far). We have the process nailed. I'm sure most will agree that the clients with lower budgets are generally more 'work'.

So what we do is have initial 2 hour project discovery meeting where we literally go through every page they want, how many pictures/ paragraphs are suitable for each page. We log all of this and send them the full content list of what is needed.

Wonderfully, we schedule the 'Platform Training' meeting (where we sign it over) exactly one week later and send them a content deadline for half-way through that week. No surprises that not a single client has yet to send any content through on time!, so (and we make this absolutely clear) we populate with lorum ipsum and stock imagery proofs to the exact discussed paragraph/image count per page.

We do the platform training with the dummy content, show them how to do everything (2 hours) and send them on their way. Monthly hosting (£12.00/month) to cover weebly fees.

We've found that with this 'package' we make no-bones about what they are getting (a template driven site, chosen by us - no design 'sign-off' etc..). They know the quality of our 'other work' (it's usually why they come to us) except we crucially figure out their budget VERY early on and can 'channel' into a specific category accordingly. It's nice having that other option.

It's going well so far, 4 clients that we would have turned away, £3.5k income that we would have lost and gone to a bedroom dev or smaller agency. The hours quoted have (amazingly) worked out to the hour for each of these projects (£60/hr rate) - except the latest, which is 2 hours under ATM. I can't ever remember a time where a £6,000+ site was ever on budget (we actually get our hourly rate on these small sites!!).

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