1. Develop Websites for Local Business
Approach local business people and sell them on the necessity and economic benefits of having a professional website. Local advertising may get you started so well but expect to get much of your business from referrals.
Charge your clients for initial design and setup of the website. Work with them to develop a theme for their site based on their unique advantages over the competition. Keep the site simple to start with, so production cost is not prohibitive for business, and you can complete the advantage in a short time.
In this business, you can also earn money on maintenance and ongoing support of the website. Charge monthly fees for such services needed as web hosting, updates and improvements to the site's content, search engine optimization and submission, increasing traffic, traffic analysis, mailing list preparation and maintenance, and much more.
You do n
ot have to be a master Internet programmer to provide the necessary additional services. There are many free and inexpensive sources of scripts and other resources available to you online. Offer your clients (and charge extra for) flash introductions, animated graphics, syndicated content, traffic counters, forms, chat rooms, pop-up windows, autoresponders, and more.
2. Sell websites
Build web stores, search engines, shopping portals and other websites and sell them online.
Some develop sites from templates sold by others. Others build websites from scratch. These sites have been sold on the Internet as turnkey businesses through eBay and other websites.
Another option is to take existing free services and resell them. For example, you can take advantage of free web stores available to you online. Register a suitable domain name, obtain free or low cost web hosting, and hosting, free store on your domain on your web space. Promote your site and increase traffic. Finally sell your website to the highest bidder on eBay. Be sure that either your Reserve Price or Opening bid is high enough to make it profitable for you. You must transfer the domain name to buyer.
3. Become an Internet Marketer
Build your own unique website based on a niche theme that has a sufficiently large market share. Then tie in your content with appropriate affiliate programs and your own as well as others' products and services.
To increase commissions and sales, you regularly maintain your site by updating content, increasing targeted traffic, adding appropriate products and services, etc.
So it is just a few ways you can benefit financially from building and maintaining websites.
