Hosting the Websites You Design
If you work as a freelance web designer for any length of time, you’ll quickly notice that your income can fluctuate wildly from month to month. One month you have almost more work than you can handle and the checks start rolling in. The next month all the projects you had finish up and you hope there’s enough in the bank to cover your expenses because you don’t have any thing coming in.
You may be one of the few who are paid a retainer by some of your more affluent clients to be available just in case anything comes up. Personally, that seems a lot like being an employee, but it works for some people. The most likely scenario, though, is that you are paid in full after you complete any project. I haven’t met many freelancers in any industry who can easily translate their personal service into a revenue stream that pays them money each month.
Does that mean you give up and resign yourself to enduring the financial roller coaster of wild swings in sales from month to month? No, or at least you shouldn’t feel like that’s the only option.
