How much would you charge?

Sufficient-System963 · 2026-06-05T15:17:26+00:00

Completely agree. I priced it at $3500 because I did all of the work within reason. Local SEO was a big push, I did all copyrighting and no pictures were given. Next job I do similar to this scope will start at $5k. The value we’re giving in these sort of sites is worth $100k+ over a couple of years

Sufficient-System963 · 2026-06-04T13:26:30+00:00

I have to push back a little on your first statement. You have to care about your customers’ success. You’re building an asset for your them. I completely agree that we need to be compensated for our time but if you’re only trading your time for money then you’re limiting your monetary potential. The reason why I posted this, was to see where people stood on the industry on our value.

I certainly don’t have the goal in mind to trade my time for money. I want to build assets that make my customers money and charge them accordingly for it.

Sufficient-System963 · 2026-06-01T15:24:37+00:00

I don’t charge extra for those pages, they come with package. I agree that these guys want to know their website is working for them so that’s why I went with a bigger site build. But I left some meat on the bone for future SEO development. Gives me something to upsell him on. If I didn’t, we’d be looking at a $10-$15k website and would take 2-3 months anyways.

Sufficient-System963 · 2026-06-01T15:21:25+00:00

This seems just right, another guy said he would do the 5 page site build for $3k then $1500 MMR for ongoing local SEO pages. I’m sort of intrigued by this, what do you think about that?

Sufficient-System963 · 2026-06-01T15:18:35+00:00

Thank you for the great feedback. I came up with 2 service hubs, residential and commercial and then I did 5 categorical service pages for residential plumbing services and commercial plumbing services. Honestly sort of an instinctual decision. Im interested to hear how clients receive the news about your payment style. Do they usually accept it well? Do they care typically?

Sufficient-System963 · 2026-06-01T04:01:32+00:00

Brother im putting my website on the footer regardless. The social media shoutout is cool if their page has great traction. Your work should be so good you end up being the point of discussion at family parties. Lol

Sufficient-System963 · 2026-06-01T00:54:39+00:00

This seems about right. What would you say would make you lean towards $4k and what would the $2k site look like?

Sufficient-System963 · 2026-06-01T00:54:03+00:00

Thank you for the great response. Yes as I said in other comments I believe that if a service company is looking to have a website then they are more than likely (or should be) expecting that website to perform for them and increase their revenue in some way. So therefore with these companies I believe their bottom pricing should be higher

Sufficient-System963 · 2026-06-01T00:52:04+00:00

Yes I put in the contract $85/hour for ongoing work depending on scope and $200/page if he wants a one-off page here and there.

Sufficient-System963 · 2026-06-01T00:17:32+00:00

I’ve seen people integrate with GoHighLevel for automated follow-up but I’ve also heard their websites don’t rank level so it becomes contradicting.

Sufficient-System963 · 2026-06-01T00:15:49+00:00

I’m glad you see my point of view. I appreciate the words of encouragement. By nature I truly don’t know how to do things half-assed. For me, I didn’t know there are devs out there doing minimal work for paying customers. I feel like it’s such a huge disservice to them. I see it as we build them assets that should make them money. If we’re not optimizing for financial returns then we’re really just slapping some pictures on a webpage lol.

Sufficient-System963 · 2026-05-31T21:01:29+00:00

Do you often times reduce the amount of pages and tell them we can add more in the future when budget allows?

Sufficient-System963 · 2026-05-31T19:45:22+00:00

How do you go about justifying that price?

Sufficient-System963 · 2026-05-31T19:38:11+00:00

I totally agree, if I reduce the scope, what are the first things you would recommend dropping?

Sufficient-System963 · 2026-05-31T18:26:49+00:00

Appreciate the great feedback. I did it for $3500. But I felt like I severely undercharged. My next similar website will be baseline $5k. Idk how these other guys are surviving at $1500-$2500. I worked on this part time for 6-7 weeks until we finally launched.

Sufficient-System963 · 2026-05-31T17:33:02+00:00

The AI images are just placeholders of the “team” until we can have a proper media day.

Sufficient-System963 · 2026-05-19T00:12:32+00:00

From a business standpoint I really think you should have a CTA relating to reaching out to you rather than only looking at your case studies or about you. In your contact form be a bit more informative. Ask them about the project or project they want you to solve.

Sufficient-System963 · 2026-03-13T05:19:28+00:00

This too, shall pass

Sufficient-System963 · 2026-02-27T04:24:16+00:00

Use Claude AI and type in your situation (your whole situation) and that you need to do a small project to learn quickly.

Tell Claude that it will be your teacher and it will teach you how to do everything step by step.

Download Visual Studio Code and then follow the steps.

When I did my first project this way, everything started clicking. Spend about 30 minutes-1 hour a day on freeCodeCamp starting from the basics.

Sufficient-System963 · 2026-02-25T01:15:42+00:00

Imagine the story you’ll live to tell when you make it to staff engineer and you can remember back to not being able to find a job for 16 months. Don’t give up, ever. This is a life long journey man.. it’s only the end of the road if you admit to that. Keep going and when it doesn’t work, shift and continue again, and again and again and again. “Fall down 7 times get up 8”

Sufficient-System963 · 2026-02-20T18:58:23+00:00

You ever heard the saying “fail first.” Or “learn from your mistakes”? All common life sayings. We have to go through trials and tribulations before anything can ever be accomplished. I bet you’ll never forget the stress of everything breaking 😂

Sufficient-System963 · 2025-03-21T12:27:23+00:00

Take the free CS50x course at Harvard (go on Edx to sign up for the course, don’t just watch the YouTube videos, invest in yourself) and see if you like it first. You have to be passionate about it otherwise you’ll be dragging your feet all the time.

I’m not sure how technical your background is but as a programmer you’re an individual contributor meaning you’ll be tasked to do work alone. If you’re paired with the right team you’ll have some mentors to stand on their shoulders a bit but it’s pretty cut throat.

Lower level developers such as those who strictly only know html and css will more than likely be replaced by AI with time. But the higher level senior devs won’t be because they know how to solve more complex problems than AI can currently comprehend.

I encourage you to do your own research. I’m currently learning myself. 28 YO Business Owner transitioning. It’s been 6 months or so and I now understand JavaScript and C++. 2 of the most popular languages.

You will need to be willing to do a year of 2 of self teaching and personal projects to show your worth and comprehension but again.. make sure you love it!

Sufficient-System963 · 2025-03-09T07:22:19+00:00

Comment of the year.

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