This is the question I get a lot, how to make a recurring income as a web designer?
In other words: how to make a recurring income instead of one time sell.
Here are some of my most favorite ones.
1. Hosting and domain renewing
This one is the most straightforward one.
For the customers, it's usually painful to keep track of domain registration and hosting and if you offer them a maintenance fee they most probably won't refuse.
2. Extension of the previous one
- Small changes
- Checking the security issues
- Making back-ups
Most people expect this is free.
It's not. Your time isn't free.
So you can add this to the basic package and charge an additional $ for it.
3. SEO services
Especially if they want to host a blog/podcast etc.
SEO will bring them immense value. If it's done right.
Basically, they're just a "copy" of Instagram/Snapchat stories.
Why?
According to the designer's it should decrease the pressure on users who find the tweeting too public, permanent, and with too much pressure to like/retweets hunting.