Do you want an internet site on your personal WordPress growth enterprise? In this text, we present you ways to rapidly and simply arrange a website utilizing the identical instruments you’d use to construct websites on your personal shoppers.
“Awkwardly, I don’t even have a website of my own right now because I haven’t had any breaks between projects in years.” Greg, WPMU DEV Member
You’re a WordPress developer… and you don’t have a WordPress web site on your personal enterprise but?
Maybe you’ve labored for an company or promoted your providers on freelancing websites and didn’t want an expert enterprise web site till now.
In this text, we’ll present you ways to arrange an internet site on your WordPress net growth enterprise rapidly and simply utilizing the identical time-saving instruments we offer to assist our members construct websites for their shoppers.
We need you to expertise for your self how a lot time and effort it can save you constructing websites on your shoppers as a WPMU DEV member and white label reseller….through the use of our instruments to construct your personal website! 🙂
By the time you’re carried out following the steps on this article, you’ll:
- Have put in and arrange a WordPress website for your small business.
- Have added your website content material (together with a providers web page itemizing all of your service packages).
- Have examined and checked to make certain every little thing’s working.
- Be prepared to launch your small business and begin bringing new shoppers in.
We’ll take you thru the next steps:
Let’s start…
Part 1 – Hosting, Site Installation & Domain Setup
If you’re a WPMU DEV member, then you have already got all of the instruments, providers, and sources you want to arrange a brand new web site rapidly and simply and launch your net growth enterprise. (Not a member but? Sign up for a free trial to observe this tutorial!)
Let’s roll up our sleeves, then, and get began with…
Setting Up Hosting For Your Domain And Website
With WPMU DEV, you’ll be able to register a brand new area on your shoppers, arrange absolutely optimized managed internet hosting, and rapidly create and arrange a safe and absolutely configured web site…all with out leaving your Hub dashboard.
We’ll start by selecting a internet hosting plan on your web site.
For this instance, we’ll arrange a fundamental enterprise web site, so we’ll select the “Bronze” internet hosting plan.
If you’re a WPMU DEV member on an Agency plan, you need to use your hosting credits to spin up a Bronze internet hosting plan. If not, then benefit from the 7-day free trial and choose the Bronze plan.
Great! Now that you just’ve chosen your internet hosting plan, let’s take the subsequent step…
Create Your Site
To create your new website, go to The Hub and click on on the ‘+ Add Site’ button…
For this instance, we’ll create a model new website.
Choose the ‘Create New’ choice…
We present step-by-step documentation on how to arrange a brand new website, so refer to that info when you need assistance with this step, or simply observe the setup wizard in The Hub.
For this instance, we’ll arrange our website on a brief URL referred to as freelance-developer.tempurl.host.
Add Your Domain
Next, we’ll add a site, which we’ll join to our new website (and we’ll manage our own DNS too!)
We’ve registered the area geniuswebdevelopment.retailer.
To join the area with the internet hosting, go to Hosting > Domains and click on on the Add area button.
Enter your area particulars (elective: you’ll be able to add a www area and choose whether or not you’d additionally like to handle the area’s DNS) and click on on the Add area button.
The area ought to now seem within the Domains part.
Now that now we have added our area, all we’d like to do is await the DNS to propagate.
You can test to see in case your area has propagated utilizing a device like https://www.whatsmydns.net/.
The subsequent step is to make our newly-registered area the location’s major area.
To do that, go to The Hub, choose the location with the momentary area and click on on Domains.
Refresh the display screen to replace each the location’s DNS and SSL standing.
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Click on the ellipsis (three vertical dots) subsequent to the area title and choose Recheck DNS…
With all inexperienced ticks displaying, let’s level our website to our newly-registered area title.
Click on the ellipsis icon subsequent to the area and choose Set as major.
Our internet hosting, website, and area title at the moment are all linked.
So far, now we have accomplished the next steps, with out leaving The Hub:
- Set up safe, absolutely optimized, managed WordPress internet hosting for our website.
- Created a brand new WordPress web site
- Registered a brand new area title and linked it to our web site (see our documentation part for step-by-step instructions on connecting domains to hosting when you need assistance on this space.)
There’s just one step left to do now to end establishing your web site, and that’s…
Configure Your Site
For this step, we suggest establishing your web site rapidly and simply utilizing our Templates and Configs instruments as described right here: Save Time and Increase Your Production With WPMU DEV Templates
Part 2 – Add Pages & Content To Your Site
Once your net growth web site is up and operating, the subsequent step is to customise it and add your pages and content material, menus, hyperlinks, and so on.
As steered earlier, you’ll be able to rapidly arrange your website’s pages utilizing templates.
Use Forminator to rapidly arrange a content material type.
Add Your Services Page
We’re fairly positive you already know what to do right here, so listed here are simply a few factors to take be aware:
- You’ll need to checklist your whole providers in your providers web page, and
- Add these to your client billing part so you’ll be able to simply cost for them.
See the articles beneath for tutorials on how to arrange packages for all of the completely different providers you’ll be able to present to shoppers:
After including an inventory of providers and doing slightly little bit of tweaking, fine-tuning, and customizing your website, you’re virtually prepared to launch.
Part 3 – Get Ready To Launch
If you’re already up and operating you’ll be able to clearly skip a few of these steps.
Otherwise, earlier than you formally launch we suggest ticking off these factors beneath:
1. Decide How You’re Going To Price Your Services
Pricing is among the most necessary, but additionally one of many hardest steps!
If you need assistance, learn this tutorial to learn the way to value your WordPress growth providers, keep away from pricing your self out of enterprise, and extra:
How To Price Your Web Development Services: The Definitive Guide
2. Have a Process in Place To Onboard and Work With Clients
Gone are the times of dealing with shoppers over e mail solely. If you need to appear to be an actual professional, you’ll invite them to your personal branded consumer space and give them the VIP expertise.
See this tutorial to learn the way to create a branded consumer portal the place your shoppers can entry their account, website info, view their invoices and subscriptions, and pay on your providers through a safe and self-hosted checkout space:
How To Create A Fully-Branded, Customized Client Portal With WPMU DEV
Once you might have arrange your consumer portal space, we suggest establishing a dummy consumer and logging in because the consumer, so you’ll be able to test every little thing and guarantee that your consumer portal will ship your shoppers the most effective consumer expertise attainable.
3. Make Sure You Know How You’re Going To Invoice and Bill Clients
See this tutorial to learn the way to arrange and automate your consumer billing by integrating your providers, pricing, and shoppers, with your fee processor account:
WPMU DEV’s Client Billing Makes Managing Clients and Processing Payments Hassle-Free (and Fast!)
Don’t neglect to run a take a look at buy when carried out.
4. Double, Double Check Your Site
Make positive that every one the knowledge in your website is appropriate, test that every one navigation and hyperlinks are working in your content material, and so on.
5. Time to Launch and Start Getting Clients
Have you carried out all the above?
Congratulations…your new net growth enterprise is now prepared to fly! 🎉
See this tutorial for actionable steps you’ll be able to take and sensible ideas to begin bringing in new shoppers: 8 Ways To Get New Clients For Your WordPress Web Development Business…And Keep Them Happy!
Grow Your WordPress Business With A Reliable Partner You Can Trust
As your small business grows, you’ll want options you’ll be able to depend on to preserve delivering high-quality providers to your shoppers.
WPMU DEV offers you with every little thing you want to concentrate on rising your WordPress enterprise…from internet hosting, website administration, and consumer billing, to plugins, instruments, and 24/7 assist.
We are the ‘all-in-one’ platform that you may accomplice with. If you aren’t a WPMU DEV member but, join a no-risk free trial at the moment.
