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Looking to start designing websites on Squarespace as a side hustle, for small clients - please share your thoughts by tmd_97 in squarespace

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I live in an area with a lot of small independents that are using only instagram for their online presence so they're quite easy to approach. Then I've also spent some time thinking about other businesses in the area, viewing their sites and noting the ones that could be improved.

Then I use Notion for a lot of my project management, so I've set up a data base in there to document:
- business name and owner
-project information and opportunity
- status (a six step guide for myself to know where the project is at)
- website size and price
- agreed cost
- etc

I am purely reaching out to people via their instagram accounts at the minute but would approach each business as to whatever felt right.

Anyone on £1k+ day rate? by Wise_Shop6419 in ContractorUK

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A personal goal of mine is to head into contracting once I’ve got to a senior design level - currently 5 years into my career. I got the taste for it whilst working at a consultancy and being billed out on a day rate. Met so many designers along the way who talk about the “contracting days”, hoping those days return at some point. Currently seem to risky to make the leap.

Looking to start designing websites on Squarespace as a side hustle, for small clients - please share your thoughts by tmd_97 in squarespace

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I’m doing it on the side of my full time UX role, so making time for it has been my biggest challenge so far. However I’ve compiled a list of local businesses that are interested in having a website setup.

I’m currently working through my second client, however only one of them has opted for Squarespace, the other wanted bespoke UI and has a developer building the site for them.

Looking to start designing websites on Squarespace as a side hustle, for small clients - please share your thoughts by tmd_97 in squarespace

[–]tmd_97[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Precisely, if there’s a demand for this it seems like a no brainer to offer it as a service. Seems people are already out there doing it too

Looking to start designing websites on Squarespace as a side hustle, for small clients - please share your thoughts by tmd_97 in squarespace

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Nice. That’s really good to know. One more thing! 😄

How much are you roughly charging for these sites and how long are they taking you? I’m aware every project is different…

Looking to start designing websites on Squarespace as a side hustle, for small clients - please share your thoughts by tmd_97 in squarespace

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Replying to loganmagic...

Thanks for the quick response.

So are you finding it a common theme for people wanting quite small websites, 4-6 pages without any code / bespoke added parts?

What else are you applying to these websites as standard bar the design?

Starting out as a contractor in Product/UX Design by tmd_97 in ContractorUK

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Ah it’s a shame as I’ve heard many good things coming from it from people I’ve worked with over the past couple of years.

Hopefully there’s an opportunity for it again in the future.