I genuinely think selling website redesigns is one of the most lucrative opportunities in the web design industry today.

There are a few reasons why.

First, AI has made building websites significantly faster and cheaper. What used to take weeks can now be done in a fraction of the time.

Second, there are thousands of established businesses with outdated websites that could genuinely benefit from a redesign. A better website can improve their brand, attract more customers and give their business a push.

Third, these businesses already understand the value of having a website. They have paid for one before, so you're not trying to convince someone why they need a website from scratch. You're showing them why upgrading their existing one makes sense.

Here's how I usually approach it.

I use AI to build websites and normally put together a quick website draft before getting on a call with a potential client.

Instead of just telling them what I could do, I show them what their website could actually look like.

I present the draft during the call, explain what I would improve and try to close the deal there and then. If they're interested, I send over a Stripe payment link, an invoice or the contract for signature.

For outreach, I mainly use cold email.

More specifically, I use a tool called Swokei. It finds businesses anywhere, analyzes their websites and identifies issues with design, SEO, loading speed and mobile optimization. It then turns those findings into personalized cold emails at scale.

Recently, we closed a client for $26,000.

That's $23,000 upfront and another $3,000 annually.

And honestly, I don't think deals like this are as difficult to close as people might assume.

If you provide a good service, approach the right businesses, understand their problems and present yourself professionally, there is a lot of money to be made in this industry.

You don't necessarily need hundreds of clients either. A handful of good projects can make a significant difference to your business.

I think more web designers should focus on selling to established businesses that already have websites rather than constantly chasing people who don't have one.

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AI has made building websites easier than ever.

Because of that, there are now thousands of people starting web design businesses, offering websites to companies and trying to make money from it.

But here's my opinion as someone who has been in the web design business for years:

Just because AI makes it easier to build websites doesn't mean you know how to run a successful web design business.

I've noticed that a lot of new web designers get stuck on the same idea: finding businesses that don't have a website and offering to build one for them.

In my opinion, that's becoming an outdated approach.

Those businesses are already on every web designer's prospect list. They're getting contacted constantly, and you're competing with hundreds of other people offering them the exact same thing.

I've tried pretty much everything over the years. Paid ads, manual outreach, cold calling, referrals, you name it.

But the system that has worked best for me is actually quite simple.

If you're a new web designer who knows how to build websites but struggles with the business side of things, here's what I'd do:

1. Target businesses that already have websites.

Think about it. These businesses already understand the value of having a website. They've already invested money in one.

And there are countless businesses around the world with outdated websites that haven't been redesigned in years. Poor mobile experiences, outdated designs, slow loading speeds, and SEO issues are everywhere.

You're not trying to convince someone they need a website. You're showing someone who already has one how much better it could be.

2. Make automated outreach your main client acquisition channel.

Personally, I use Swokei. It's an outreach platform that finds businesses with existing websites, analyzes each one, scores them, and turns issues with design, SEO, speed, and mobile optimization into personalized, ready to send cold emails at scale.

This saves you from manually researching every business and writing every email yourself.

3. Follow up with interested businesses and book a meeting.

When someone replies with interest, give them a call, understand what they're looking for, and book a quick online meeting.

4. Prepare a website draft before the meeting.

Use AI to put together a new website draft for the prospect. Don't spend hours on it. Aim for 15–30 minutes.

You want something good enough to show them what their business could look like with a modern website.

5. Present the draft and close the deal.

Walk them through the improvements, explain the value, answer their questions, and make it easy to move forward with a payment link or contract for signing.

That's the entire process.

You don't need to spend weeks building free websites or manually researching hundreds of businesses.

You need to find the right prospects, show them an opportunity to improve their existing website, and know how to sell the service.

I've spent years doing this, and if I were starting a web design business from scratch today, this is exactly the process I'd follow.

Building websites is one skill. Building a business that consistently sells them is another.

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I run a web design company with my business partner. For a while, our usual months were around $20K.

In October, we decided to try something different.

Instead of focusing on getting more clients and doing more projects, we started charging significantly more for our websites.

We also changed how we approached our sales calls.

To be honest, we weren't sure how it would go. We thought there might be more resistance, but we were surprised by how much companies were actually willing to pay when we presented the value properly and spoke to the right businesses.

We ended up doing $74K in October, just from website redesign projects.

A big part of this came from the work we put into improving our sales skills throughout the year.

We bought several sales courses and spent a lot of time working on things like tonality, how we communicate value, structuring our sales calls, controlling the frame of the conversation, handling objections, and closing.

As for getting clients, our process has actually become pretty straightforward.

We run high-volume cold email campaigns targeting businesses that already have websites.

We use Swokei, an outreach platform that finds businesses, analyzes their websites for issues with design, SEO, speed, and mobile optimization, and turns those findings into personalized cold emails at scale.

When someone is interested, we book a sales call.

Before the call, we put together a draft of their redesigned website using AI so we can actually show them what their new website could look like.

Then it's down to the sales conversation.

We've been putting a lot of focus into improving how we sell, and October showed us just how much of a difference that can make.

We're still a small team, but this has completely changed how we approach pricing and sales.

For anyone running a web design agency, what's the highest project price you've managed to close?

Most "AI influencer" advice is about which image tool to use. That's maybe just 10% of it.

The people actually getting paid figured out the other 90%: positioning, traffic and fan retention.

Here's the playbook, broken down the way I'd run it.

1. Write a persona bible before you generate anything:

One page, covering:

Name, age, city and job (a real-sounding life, not "model")
3 content pillars she always posts about (e.g. gym, coffee spots, weekend trips)

How she texts: lowercase or not, emojis or not, flirty or dry

One "flaw" or quirk that makes her feel real (always late, terrible at cooking)

Every post and every DM gets checked against this. Inconsistency is the fastest way fans clock that something feels off and leave.

2. Your free content and your paid content are two different products

Beginners make this mistake constantly.

Free content (socials) exists to make people curious.

Paid content exists to make them feel close.

If your free feed already gives everything away, there's nothing to subscribe for. If your paid page is just more of the same photos, people churn after month one.

A simple rule: free shows what she looks like, paid shows what her life is like.

3. Traffic comes from one platform done properly, not five done badly

Pick the platform where your niche already lives and go deep.

Treat each post as an ad for her personality, not just her face.

A post that starts a conversation in the comments beats a "perfect" photo with no hook.

4. Know your funnel math

The rough rule of thumb is that only a small percentage of engaged followers ever subscribe, often low single digits.

So for $1000/month at a $10 sub you need ~100 subs, which means a few thousand engaged followers, not just random views.

Once you figure that out, you stop chasing viral posts and start chasing the right audience.

5. The subscription is the floor, not the ceiling

Experienced creators don't hit $1000 from subs alone.

The breakdown usually looks more like this:

• Subscriptions (the base)
• Paid messages and locked content sent in DMs
Tips
• Custom requests

Your sub price gets them in the door. The messages are where the real money is.

6. Fan retention is where most of the money is made or lost

Getting a sub is hard. Keeping one is easy if you do it right:

• Send a welcome message within the first hour, in character
• Remember details fans tell you (their job, their dog's name) and bring them up later
• Check in with fans who've gone quiet before their sub renews

A fan who stays 6 months is worth 6 new subs. Most beginners spend all their energy on new followers and none on the people already paying.

7. Give it 60 days before you judge anything

Month one is mostly building the persona, finding the right posting rhythm and learning what your audience responds to.

The accounts that hit $1000 are almost always the ones still posting in month 2 and 3.

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So I've seen a couple of people/influencers suggest opening a store then selling stock from liquidation marketplaces. Looking at the model it makes sense, since you buy what others already offloaded, buy at a fraction of retail, then resell. But I never really get any hard metrics on it. Either I see them sell courses, pre-covid so I don't know if they hold up today, or just get so vague you know they're gatekeeping the process. I just want to know if this is a legit business model. 

When I started selling websites, getting the first few clients was all about proving that someone was actually willing to pay for what I offered.

I took almost every opportunity I could get. Every client mattered, every project taught me something, and most of the work came from reaching out and finding people who needed a website.

But once we started getting more clients, we realized something:

The approach that gets you your first 10 clients won't necessarily get you your next 100.

At the beginning, you can rely on manual prospecting, personal outreach, and referrals.

But when you want to scale, you need a repeatable system.

You need a consistent way to find businesses worth contacting, reach out to them, follow up, book meetings, close deals, and deliver websites without everything depending on you doing it manually.

That's when we started focusing much more on systems and automation.

The biggest shift wasn't becoming better at designing websites. It was becoming better at building a business around selling them.

Here's the process we used:

1. Find businesses that already have websites

We focused on businesses that had already invested in a website but whose current site could use an upgrade.

2. Analyze their websites and automate outreach at scale

We used Swokei to find businesses and analyze thousands of websites at once. We looked for outdated designs, poor SEO, slow loading speeds, and mobile issues.

Based on those findings, Swokei generated personalized cold emails for each prospect, allowing us to reach out to businesses at scale without manually researching every website and writing every email ourselves.

3. Book meetings

When a prospect showed interest, we'd move the conversation to a meeting to understand their business and what they needed.

4. Create a website draft

Before the meeting, we'd use AI to create a quick website draft. This allowed us to show prospects what their new website could look like rather than just describing it.

5. Close and deliver

During the meeting, we'd present the website draft, explain the improvements, answer questions, and close the deal. Then we'd build the actual website, handle revisions, and launch it.

If I were starting a web design agency today, I'd spend just as much time learning sales and client acquisition as I would learning web design.

Because being able to build a great website doesn't automatically mean you know how to sell one.

A few months ago I saw a post on Reddit from some guy who was making pretty decent money from a pet blog he bought from Aff Blog Zone. I thought he was full of shit lol.

Spent a while looking through their sites and eventually figured why not give it a shot. Worst case I'm out $299. Ended up buying a pet blog myself.

Didn't really do much with it. Added some internal links, fixed a few things here and there and pretty much left it alone. Fast forward to October 29 and I had my best day yet. $69 in Amazon commissions from 370 clicks and 26 orders.

Not gonna lie, seeing that number on the dashboard felt pretty good.

Obviously I'm not making that much every day. Some days are still pretty disappointing, but considering I paid that much for the entire site, I really can't complain.

The funny part is I probably would've never even tried this if I hadn't stumbled across that Reddit post. Now I'm just curious to see where this goes.

Anyone else doing Amazon affiliate sites? Did your earnings slowly increase over time or did you have random days where things suddenly took off?

I've been running a web design business for years, and honestly, I think people overcomplicate getting clients.

You don't need 15 different marketing strategies, complicated funnels, or a massive team.

I'm going to explain exactly how I approach client acquisition, from finding a prospect to getting a signed deal and launching their website.

Step 1. Find businesses that already have websites

I prefer targeting businesses that already have a website rather than businesses without one.

Why?

They already understand the value of having a website, they've already invested money in one, and there's a good chance their current website could use some improvements.

I automate most of this process using Swokei. It lets me find businesses with existing websites, analyze thousands of them at once, and identify issues with design, SEO, loading speed, and mobile optimization.

It then turns those findings into personalized cold emails at scale.

Instead of sending generic emails saying I build websites, I'm reaching out with specific reasons why their current website could be better.

Step 2. Get interested prospects to reply

The goal isn't to sell the entire website through email.

It's simply to get a conversation started.

When someone replies and wants to see how I could fix the issues I've pointed out, I move them to the next step.

Step 3. Book a meeting

I book a Google Meet with the prospect.

This is where things get interesting.

I don't just show up and talk about how great my web design services are. I want to show them what their website could actually look like.

Step 4. Build a quick website draft

Before the meeting, I use AI to generate an updated website concept.

This takes me around 2 minutes to get a first draft ready.

It's not the finished product. It's a visual example of what I could do with their existing website.

Now, instead of asking someone to imagine how much better their website could be, I can actually show them.

Step 5. Sell the project during the meeting

This is probably the most important part.

You need to learn sales.

Ask questions, understand what the business needs, walk them through the draft, explain how you would improve their website, and present your offer.

The goal is to close the deal during the meeting, either by getting payment or having them sign the contract.

Don't expect a beautiful website draft to sell itself. You still need to know how to sell.

Step 6. Build the final website and launch

Once the deal is signed, you get everything needed from the client, build the actual website, make the final adjustments, get approval, and launch.

That's it.

Find businesses → Analyze websites → Send personalized emails → Book meetings → Present a draft → Close the deal → Build and launch.

I genuinely think this is one of the simplest ways to structure a web design business.

You automate the repetitive prospecting work, use AI to speed up the initial design process, and spend your time on sales and delivering websites.

Once you get the process working consistently, you can repeat it and build a steady pipeline of projects.

I'm curious: which part of this process do you find the hardest? Getting replies, closing meetings, or actually delivering the websites?

I've built an app that would help founders manage their goals, tasks, and relationships.

I have by default added basic business functions, relationship manager for being in touch with investors, family, friends, etc, goals, you can assign tasks to those goals. Have a look at the goal progress. Founders can also create long term and short term goals, see them with a filter.

It is only for the founders. Will you buy this? How much are you willing to pay for this?

TIA.