Get Rich Designing Websites

By Jacob Karpen

This is one of the more interesting fields to make money from because there are so many different ways to do it. Some people are more successful than others at it, sort of like working the stock market, but the majority to well enough regardless. How to make money designing websites depends on a few things, more than just skill or luck, such as the know-how.

You could make money working for a company as an option. At some point, a company will likely want a website, and sometimes bigger ones will hire a few to have around for constant web updates. These companies will have a spot through some form of media saying they're looking for "web masters".

You could be employed by a company that has contracts to design websites for other companies. The work is more stable, as you're designing other websites, not just one. And the work comes from contracts you aren't responsible for.

If you don't want to work for someone, you could work for yourself. All you have to do is make a name for yourself. Putting your name out there via website, business cards, logo, etc. Will help attract more customers/contracts.

Having a logo or a signature or some sort of mark on a website is a very important thing for the self-employed designer. This mark will show up on every website that you design. The more you design, the more often your logo/signature shows up, the more people see it.

As your name gets heard, you'll get more contracts. As you get more contracts, you get your name out there even further, and it will grow exponentially from there. If you couldn't tell, the success of a web designer is heavily based on their popularity, which means the key to making money as one is to have a good amount of popularity.

Of course, the easiest method of choice, albeit the most boring, is to go into advertising. Going into advertising means using your site (or a site) to put advertisements on for other companies. You put their ad on your site and you'll get money based on it's popularity.

And the final method comes from designing a website to sell a product, be it your own or someone else's. By selling your own, you make money based on the popularity of your website (which means more consumers). By selling someone else's product, you can request a commission.

So the key of how to make money designing websites is popularity, but the style you use is what differs. So long as you follow the key, the rest is up to you. The styles are only better from one another based on who uses them, so there is no ultimate option, as they are all just as good as one another. After all, it's not a matter of what you do, but how you go about doing it.

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