Your first $150 with iNterGine
This is the whole path, from joining to your first paid invoice, with real numbers. Joining costs you nothing. The website costs the business $30 a month. Your set-up fee is yours. We use $150 as the example: you set your own price.
The whole path in one video
Silent, with captions: joining, the Demo Gallery on a phone, the work order, a $150 invoice and the business's $30-a-month subscription. Nothing in the video was sent or paid.
Join free
Sign up with your e-mail address. It is your webmaster ID and your login on every site we build for you.
Write down 5 businesses you already know
Places you already go: where you eat, get your hair cut, fix your car, worship or work out. Look for no website, an old one that breaks on a phone, or only a Facebook page.
Pick the closest demo
Open the Demo Gallery on your phone and find the sample site closest to their kind of business. That is what you will show them.
Talk to one owner, and say the whole price on day one
Something like: "I can get you a website built, free to look at. If you like it, it's $30 a month for the website and $150 for me to set it up and show you how it works. If you don't like it, you owe nothing."
Show them the demo. Ask what they want customers to do: call, book, buy or find them.
When they say "I could just do it myself on Wix": "You could. Wix is about the same monthly price. The difference is who does the work. With Wix you build it yourself and fix it yourself. With me, it's built for you, I show you how to use it, and you have someone local to call. You only pay me once you've seen your site and like it."
Don't argue and don't knock Wix. The owner isn't choosing a platform. They're choosing between doing it themselves and having you do it. Most don't have the time, and that is what you're paid for.
Send the free work order
With their OK, collect their logo, a few of their own photos and 1 to 3 websites they like, then send the work order. We build the site in 2 to 3 business days and e-mail you its address and your login.
Check it, then show it
Check every page on your phone: name, phone number, address, prices and hours. Then show the owner their new site and let them change one thing themselves, so they see it's easy. Their free 30-day trial starts now.
Put it in writing and take a deposit
When they say yes, use the simple service agreement from the Toolkit: what you deliver, your $150, and that the website's $30 a month is paid on the site. Asking for part of your fee now and the rest once you've shown them how to use it is normal.
Send your invoice and get paid
Make the invoice in the Invoice Maker and send it. They pay you $150 the way you agreed: card, PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, cash or check. They subscribe to their website on the site itself, at $30 a month.
That is your first $150.
Keep them, and do it again
Offer to keep the site fresh for a monthly care fee, for example $40 a month for new photos, hours, specials and posts. With 5 customers on care, that is $200 a month for as long as they stay. Then go back to your list for the next one.
Straight talk
Not everyone says yes, and that's normal. If a business says no, nothing is owed: a site nobody subscribes to closes by itself when its 30-day trial ends. Nobody can promise you an income. What you earn depends on the businesses you talk to, the prices you set and the work you put in. The Training has the details, including taxes and doing it legally.