What is the best way to launch a small business to create websites on ready-made templates?

Question

Startups

Objective: To create a small web studio specializing in creating sites on a ready-made CMS on ready-made templates for a small price.
Employees:
- webmaster who can make graphics in photoshop, figma. Able to pull the finished purchased layout on the finished CMS. ( October CMS ) and write php code at the level of creating a selection of records from the database, deleting, editing, updating ...
- a professional full-stack programmer who can create even complex web services and is ready to help the webmaster and take on the development of additional. functionality.

There is a website of a mini web studio, which says in plain text that we are supporting small businesses. We produce at minimum prices sites on a convenient CMS on ready-made html templates in terms of functionality that are in no way inferior to sites ordered from expensive web studios.

The site contains screenshots of templates from paid stores like themeforest and links to a demo version of sites, and when a client chooses a template, we receive an advance payment, buy the selected template and integrate with the CMS.

The site explains the difference in the production cycles of sites with a unique design from template sites and the reasons to start with a template site.

Well, additional services - data transfer from various sources to the site. Development of banners, finalization of functionality.

The question is - is it really possible to promote such a business so that there are 1-2 orders per month for the site for 15-20 tr. ?

Provided that the professional programmer is the owner, and the webmaster is his wife, who will do all the work, and he will only help in difficult situations, invest in promotion and train her.

Or shouldn't it even start?

Answer 1

Get started and find out if it's real or not. Much will depend on your ability to sell your services.

Answer 2

The question is - is it really possible to promote such a business so that there are 1-2 orders per month for the site for 15-20 tr. ?

- of course yes. Set the bar too low. About minimum prices it is better to remove from the site. It scares. The client prefers average prices.

Answer 3

You can do more, there is enough work for everyone.

Answer 4

October cms and templates from themeforest are long and labor intensive.
90% of customers do not need self-written php scripts.
The main thing is speed to look good and adaptability.
The best solution is wordpress + elementor, development will be 10 times faster and easier. For stores, add woocommerce. You don't even need to buy templates on elementor - the constructor allows you to make almost exact copies (well, except for complex blocks with animations). Recommend.