There’s no better feeling than getting paid. That moment — when you get a notification that your bank account just received an influx of cash — is hard to beat and as a part time web designer the best way to get paid is to implement an effective invoicing and billing system to avoid recurring invoices to clients with hosting mark-up not being sent out on time.
3 Ways to doubled your freelance web designer profits while still working a full-time job:
1) Secure repeat business
Hunting for new clients whether on freelancing websites or elsewhere can be very time consuming, and in some cases, expensive. This is why securing long-term relationships and repeat business from your existing clients is the most important key to successfully freelancing — especially when you already have a full-time job.
Forming this type of relationship with a client is surprisingly easy. Methods include:
- Recurring invoices to clients with hosting mark-up being sent out on time.
- providing excellent customer service.
- going the extra mile.
What’s more, your long-term clients will happily make it easy for you to gain new ones through referrals.
2) Keep expenses to a minimum
Whether you freelance part-time or full-time, a healthy profit margin is essential to being successful. It won’t matter how many clients you have if your expenses outweigh your revenue.
It can be tempting to purchase attractive products and services to make your freelance career a bit easier, such as Basecamp or a stock photo subscription.
But be careful! These can eat your profits faster than you think, especially as a part-timer.
sive.host encourages you to seek out free alternatives whenever possible.
3. Invoicing and Mark Up
As a freelancer web designer you work hard. You provide a phenomenal product or service, work with your clients to make sure they’re totally satisfied, and when all is said and done, you get paid.
Invoicing is one of the least exciting parts of the freelance web designer. But it has to be done. And if you want things to go smoothly—invoices being received,mark-up being added correctly & paid on time? Then you need a system.
sive.host sharedhosting package can take your pain out of this process:
Recurring Invoices - Setup during purchase of shared hosting plan – on ordering page of sive.host you can specify mailserver to send invoices from, show markup on sive.host prices, your signature and receipient email address to send the recurring invoice to, when we send the invoice to you.
Freelancing will change your life.
Here are 4 major benefits when working freelance:
- A better work-life balance: Auto Invoice is an App designed by sive.host, an App that allows you to invoice your very own clients with your own Logo, Own Bank Account numbers, Own "From" Email on a monthly or yearly basis.
- Being your own boss: Being a freelance Web Developer means you can work all morning (or all night for that matter) and allows you to set up your own mark-up %.
- Freedom to choose your working hours / clients / rate of pay: Say a polite ‘no thank you’ to that miserable client and a ‘no thank you’ to his criminally low budget too. Sell to your own clients and auto invoice them when you receive an invoice from sive.host
- The chance to work on more interesting projects: No more monotony, each month bringing a variety of work, clients and opportunities. Get Pure SSD Flash Speed shared hosting plans that allows you to host your own websites and unlimited business emails.
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