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