Hey, I am just looking for some advice on what would be a fair price to charge clients for Managing/Maintaining their website? Also, what services would you recommend to offer to justify the price?
It depends on what you are comfortable doing, what your competition is charging, how new you are, who the client is and what the client is willing to pay. Generally you would have set-packages with the packages that cost more entailing more. E.g. Package 1 (Starter) - Hosting - Database Monitoring - Weekly Backups - Email Management £29.99 That would be effortless but possibly too complicated for the average small-business client to do themselves.
What a coincidence. I'm about to offer this kind of service and looking for the right price rate as well and I've figured it out. What I really think website maintenance needs are design (banner or any image related issues), content management, content creation and few more other stuff.
That's what I meant about packages. You should really be careful on your packages. If you offer content management, there's nothing stopping the client having you work tirelessly for very little return. E.g. if you charged the client £49.99 which included content management and content creation and they want you to create 20 (500 word) articles per day 5 days per week you've effectively put yourself out of business. Also what if they want the website re-done multiple times over. My advise is to stay away from content creation, let them have access to add/edit segments of their website but make sure there IS on-going maintenance such as SEO, Analytics that they will need you for. You're still offering a service, just a service which is easy for you to do and you can do multiple times over for multiple clients in conjunction with each other. It's worthless you spending too much time on one client. There has to be a time limit ratio per client * cost + profit for you to be successful.
Great advice. I would like to add few points: Website with n. no of pages. Platform you are using. More complicated, more pricing.
it depends on topic of your website and your type of busness you've chosen. but in generale u need to pay for this : domaine name webhosting security article manager