[Step 1] Niche Web Design Agency Blueprint - How To Build A Website

hey guys welcome to my Niche web design agency blueprint guys I'm busy making a course on how to actually start a website design agency from nothing for beginners and take it to potentially 250 000 in the first year because that's what I've done so I want to shortcut you all the way through so I'm going to give you everything you're going to need um to do that and I'm just gonna YOLO straight through this so you'll see we'll kind of figure it out as we go but um yeah this is for someone that knows nothing about website design is what this first step is going to be about it's going to be about what software to use how to set up your hosting and how to build your first website so it's going to take you through all of the stuff really really really quickly and get you from where you want to from where you are right now to where you want to be in as short a time as possible one thing that I'm going to say for this course is that it's definitely not for the week of heart because because of the shortcuts you're going to take it means that you're going to put yourself out there quite a bit but you're going to learn a lot through the process so keep that in mind there's a slow way to do things slow and steady and safe but with this one you jump straight into the deep end and we can start charging for your websites immediately on step two okay here we go before I get started and jump into it I just want to show you the numbers because I you know I've done it myself and I now run a full-fledged website design agency in Niche website design agency which makes the most amount of money so we can see year-to-date and we've only really been in business for like a year and a few months um here we go so we only really started around November right now it's December so if I say year to date I've done about 200 000 pounds that's like 250 000 somewhere near that so yeah I've done it you can do it I'll show you exactly how I've done it this is the step-by-step let's start with step one all right let's start with step one what software to use and how to use it so right now I am using siteground here we go so I personally use siteground I found it super easy you can literally deploy your website like this and it's really really really really cheap it starts at 3. 99 a month so if you buy a year up front it's only fifty dollars for the entire year so this is a really really really good um deal because it's just so easy and you also get a 30 day money back guarantee I can give you an extra 30 day three months on the house if you use my link I really don't mind if you use my link I honestly don't care I just want you to get there as quick as possible so um I might drop some affiliate links just to the softwares that I use but um yeah you don't even have to click them I really don't care I use this software so that's why I don't mind dropping you the links also you get some stuff for free okay bang There we go so this is the referral link I'll I'll share this document in the description of this video so that you can actually click these links and you know do everything you need to do but uh let's do this first so now I clicked on the link and I'm heading over to siteground then what we do is we view plans right once I view plans then we go to Startup we click get plan you can see it's a massive discount it's always super duper cheap and then we say get plan is what we want to do boom click it plan now this is where you want to register a domain personally I like to register my domains on domains. google.

com they're cheaper they're like 10 bucks a month you'll see if you get a free domain with any other website hosting provider they usually screw you because then the second year is really expensive that's why domains. google is the best which you can literally find at domains. google.

com but if you're brand new into this and you don't really know how to set up domains then maybe just you know take the hit and buy a domain over here or you know you could say I already have a domain this part doesn't really matter too much you could just say use your future domain say I already have a domain you could say this is mydomain. com or you know potentially whatever the agency name is you want to use for your agency then you just hit proceed and once you've done that you you just complete the checkout you complete this whole thing and you put in your car details and you complete the checkout so it's going to believe for 47 which is actually 57 including the tax bang bang and then once you've done that you will then have a siteground account that you can you know create a instant WordPress website on so I'm going to log into my siteground real quick and show you how to do that okay so I've just logged into my siteground let's click websites um this is where it will show all of your websites so these are these are my websites that are currently in development you can see that I have a ton I've got like two servers what you want to do is you want to click new website you'll select the plan that you've selected so I'm just going to select one of these let's go yeah this one's good and then um you know what you can do is you don't even have to use an existing or a new domain you can say temporary domain so we like to work on temporary domains while we're building the website then we don't need to buy the domain we can always just buy the domain later and literally with one click make the website go live on the new domain so we will then hit continue we'll select start a new website like this we'll use WordPress you'll put in your username and password over there let me do this right now Okay cool so I've done that bang and now we're going to get started so you don't have to you don't have to buy this thing don't click add it doesn't really matter just hit finish um cool let's go so now we're just gonna wait two minutes for the for it to complete the website creation previously guys what you what you used to have to do and I did this back in the day is you would buy a hosting then you would take WordPress and you would put it on the the hostings server and then you would point the domain to that server to that file then you would navigate to the WordPress file manually in the browser and then you would go to the WordPress file then you would set up WordPress manually this shortcuts the entire process and it creates the WordPress for you and then it instantly logs you in so you can just go to the temporary domain and log in or log into your siteground account and one click login to your website while that goes goes ahead and loads I just want to explain to you real quick how I managed to get to this point where we made 200 000 um well you know honestly we I sold my first website for like 750 right so um you know now I sell my websites for seven thousand five hundred dollars so it's literally ten times more and it's because I've niched down but the first step is to learn how to do website design once you know how to do website design I'm going to teach you how to sell the website design for money and then what I'm going to teach you to do is once you've sold one I'm gonna teach you how to Niche down and then start selling them for more and more and more and then once you've done that I'm going to show you how to build a team so that they can build the websites for you and all you need to do is sell and build brand and figure out how to bring new business in through different ads or whatever you want to do but that's honestly how I've done it I'm not even running any ads it's all just coming through me because I'm in a niche cool we're still waiting for this thing to load okay bang so it's loaded so you can view your website which will just take you to the temporary domain just like this you'll see bang that's literally just the default installation of Wordpress it's ugly it doesn't look good you can also just log into the back end um you can actually log into your website so with that one click now it's going to log me in as an admin so you will see that this is what WordPress looks like once you've logged into a brand new fresh install of Wordpress and bang we've made it so now we've logged into your website um as simple as that uh here we go so now we've got a WordPress website installed and ready to go now it's all about learning how to actually use WordPress okay so personally I would recommend Elementor and I found the perfect tutorial for you this this seems to be the best tutorial um you know I actually I personally use Divi the Divi theme but um I think Elementor isn't it's it's easier and it's also free so you can just go ahead and use this he will show you how to do everything um from the point that I just got you to so from this point he's going to show you how to actually build the website um you know and you know build a completely new website using the themes using the drag and drop and actually be able so by the end of this video you will have you will be able to build your own website cool so please watch this video follow along learn from it and then when you're ready just continue watching this video okay and you're back so now you've learned how to use uh the WordPress um you know Elementor page builder you should have been you should have been able to install it select the theme build your own website um if you wanted to that now you know how to do it so what we're going to do now is we're going to get you to build your first website now what I really really recommend in this case is to build a website for a client for free so instead of building it for yourself build it for a client because now you're going to be held accountable for completing it and you'll also get some experience Consulting so this is what we're going to do step one what we want to do is we want to find a free client guys the way that we do this is the following okay so we want to find a free client this is the easiest thing to get and this is how you're going to like this is how you're going to make a lot of money a lot quicker by working for free so let's find a free client the first thing that you want to do is leverage your current Circle what a lot of people are afraid to do and that's why I say this is a bit of a daring course what a lot of people are afraid to do is they're they're afraid to burn their list they're afraid to like disappoint the people that you know know them already but that's what's going to kick-start you into you know learning how to do this you just really need to put your yourself out there so let's leverage your friends and family so go on to Instagram post the story you know speak on your story make a make a visual post using the text say hey um I just did a website design course and I'd like to do my first website design for a business for free 100 free there's no catch I'm just looking for experience message me if you're interested right so post this on Facebook post this on your Instagram get your mom to post it on Facebook book go into different Facebook groups in your local area post it there also you know what really works well is if you're willing to jump on the camera on selfie mode step outside if you don't like the way that it looks in your house you know and if your if your selfie mode is a bad quality camera use your actual camera on the front and turn it pointing to you and make a video like that outside it will look really really good and it's also going to be an opportunity for you to step outside of your element and you know to be uncomfortable for a second because that's what you need to do to make this business grow now I promise you someone's going to reach out to you and say hey yes make a website for me and that's when we move on to step two okay cool now we're on the consultation part now you've got someone that wants you to make a website for them for free now we need to consult them this is super easy but a lot of people get it wrong what you want to do is you want to meet with them either on phone call or on a zoom say cool yes let's jump on let's jump on a zoom like right now let's jump on the phone call right now let's jump on a zoom a little later today or you can't make later today let's jump on the zoom tomorrow but book that zoom in there's no excuses get on that Zoom introduce yourself tell them why you're doing this um and then the number one lesson is don't speak about yourself this isn't you know when you sell the website and you're doing it in the two core close even though this is free this is still a two core close because we're going to do the consultation then the proposal and the proposal is basically just the strategy what you want to do is you want to find out as much information from them as possible so before you even jump into what website are you looking for say you know for me to be able to help you better I'm gonna need to understand your business is it okay if I ask you a few questions they're going to say yes of course then ask them the juicy questions you know ask them about their business what is their business how does it work how long have they been doing business how much money have they made in the last year and then why do they need a website they will answer all these questions say great thank you so much for your information what I'd like to do now is I would like to you know start figuring out what kind of website you're looking for so that I can then go home and strategize and put a strategy together and then present that to you before I build it so could you please give me an idea of what you're looking for now at this point they will have let you know um you know what they're looking for they're looking for a home page to display some information take the notes down write everything down if you even can record the call that works really great too especially if you're selling High ticket you really want to be recording the call so you can watch the recording and go back and then you know really do your research properly and do a proper strategy especially when you do the proposal but in this case we can just write it down as we go along and then if you feel confident based on everything that they've said immediately you can just give them the proposal on the call say hey okay give me one to two weeks to build this website for you you know if you're feeling audacious you can honestly do this website in a week but um say hey give me one to two weeks to build this website for you and then I'll get back to you on and then give them a date and then at that point you you build the website on Elementor on siteground right as I've shown you as you've learned in the tutorial and according to what they're looking for don't go crazy with functionality keep it basic keep it a brochure website but then then after two weeks then you you show it to them and you say hey here here you go here is your website do you like it and then um you know they'll say yes or no there might be some revisions but there you go you will have then consulted your first client you'll have found a free client consulted your first client done a proposal and then also done the build for your website so it's really that simple we don't have to over complicate the process that's how we're going to get the ball rolling really really quick so leverage your your network start becoming that guy it's okay you're not going to be the website guy forever but you're on a mission to figure out how to make money online and website design makes a lot of money online um there we go that's step one okay last thing that I wanted to mention is that if you're if you have you know um done the website and you're ready to go live with the client's website this is this is what we can do let me show you how to get that domain live real quick I'm just going to log in okay boom I've logged in I've clicked websites now I'm gonna then I'll see the website then you can just go change primary domain and then you can just put the new domain in there like and you'll say your client's website. com and then your clients clients website.

com and then hit confirm and then what you're going to need to do is just go to The Domain wherever the domain is hosted and point the a records to the IP address of this domain let me show you what I mean by that so I'm actually just going to go ahead and click confirm so now I've confirmed it right and now I'm going to head over to like domains. google but truly buying a domain anywhere is the same you just want to go to the DNS records let me show you what I mean Okay so domains. google cool now it says the domain is ready we've just changed the the domain like that so now we can hit websites and we can actually go to the site tools to the back end of this website so that we can get the IP address so we know what IP address to point this website to okay here we go so um here we go this is this is the backend dashboard there we go I just reloaded the page this is the backend dashboard we'll see when we scroll down it shows sites IP there we go so that's the site's IP address just like that you want to copy that okay and then let's just go ahead and manage any of the domains like digital mastery.

agency is a domain that I have for one of my first web design agencies before I started to Niche down so then we go over to DNS right I head over to DNS just like this right once I'm a DNS I can see all the DNS records so I want to manage the DNS records so what you'll do in this case is you'll create a new record and then you'll just say it's an A type record and then you put the IP address in over there and over here you don't even have to put anything you can just hit save so that will then add that a record so that domain will then point to that website server and so it will everything will work fine as long as the domain that you've selected matches up on the siteground account like if it's your client's website. com and the domain you're trying to edit is your clientswebsite. com and you point it to that it will work perfectly fine so there we go then you then you refresh the page on your clientswebsite.