Webflow has one very cool feature I've never mentioned. 1
The Client Billing. Client billing lets you make money from Webflow's hosting. On top of what Client pays for Webflow 2
hosting, you can add your own maintenance fees. Webflow will take their cut and send you the rest. 3
This is a good way to generate some nice, passive income from all the websites you create. 4
There are some conditions. So I'm just going to link the page, so you can read it in more detail. 5
This is the approach that I mentioned before, that some web developers take. Because they can host hundreds 6
of websites on their hosting plan and then sort of give each website owner, you know, their own annual 7
fee and then, you know, pocket the difference. 8
So, that's the service sort of you can provide and you can utilize similar servise within Webflow. 9
Obviously, you know, the discount that you can give them on the hosting, is not as big as what you would 10
do on other platforms. Because on Webflow each side has their own hosting, so you cannot have an account 11
where you kind of get and put all the websites inside and then give the discounts to your clients. Right? 12
So, each website will have to have the hosting. 13
So the difference is not going to be as big as some other web, you know, designer would make it in different platforms. 14
I myself, I don't actually do this with my clients. 15
I don't charge them for management fees. 16
I build the website in their own accounts usually. And just have them sort of take the project and kind 17
of keep it and own that project. And sort of create this disconnection between me and the project. 18
I still make myself available for maintenance, or any updates, or anything like that. But I like to, sort of, 19
when I'm done with a project, because I've worked on it so long, and you know, I do websites, my website 20
usually, I like them big projects. I like to design them and then kind of dedicate a lot a lot of time 21
to it, to make something that I'm proud of. And I just enjoy the process. Right? 22
And my style. And a lot of developers and designers, 23
style is to make as many websites as possible, for as many clients as possible and then sometimes use these 24
management fees to create a nice, healthy, kind of monthly revenue from all the management fees that they 25
are charging to all their existing clients. 26
But that's not my style. 27
I like websites and I like working on websites. And I want them to be fun. 28
Not like a conveyor and a factory line, that I just produce as many as possible. 29
But hey, it's me. 30
It's my personal preference. As many people, as many freelance web designers there are, there are as many 31
ways to do freelance web design business. 32
You will discover your own quirks, and how you like to work, and what sort of arrangements you have to 33
make. 34
And that's the beauty of freelancing, because it enables you to kind of mold your working preferences 35
and shape your kind of work life the way you want it. 36
You wouldn't be able to do that in a full-time job in 100 years.