 Before you become a WordPress developer, watch this video. Let me explain. This video was brought to you by DigiLink Academy. You're number one source to learning programming fast and get to that six-figure salary you desire. Our third day project course includes our JavaScript front-end projects, our Python back-end projects, our SQL database projects, and much, much more. So go ahead and click the link below to our free seven-step guide so that you can start reaching your programming goals today. I'll see you guys in the course. All right, guys. Before we get into the details of the video, let me go ahead and give you the quick answer about WordPress. And a lot of you guys are looking at outdated information about WordPress and your expectations are out of whack. I wanna put those expectations in perspective and give you the quick answer. Yes, WordPress is a good technology. As a career full-time career, working for mom and pops, that's gonna be a struggle. If you market yourself wrong. So let me make sure before you actually make that mistake and be that outdated developer who's coming in, thinking, help me WordPress, all I'm gonna do is install the site and add plugins and that's gonna be the end of it. No, you will struggle, you will have problems. Don't make that mistake. And I'm gonna give you some pros and cons of that and make sure you're gonna get on the right path as a WordPress developer instead of being a struggling, aspiring, broke WordPress developer who doing free work or work for maybe two or $3 an hour and struggling even though you got clients. I don't want that for you. But before we get started, guys, tell me about your unique experience as a WordPress developer so that I can provide more details from you guys and start a conversation in the chat. Know a lot of you guys have already started this journey or trying to start this journey. Comment below about what you guys are doing, what your current situation is and what you need help with. And I'll make sure I put myself in a position so that I can help you guys out. So comment below so that we can do that, guys. So I made some points here. I wanna make sure I cover these points and make sure I hit them so that you guys can know all the details here and let's go over number one. So number one, you guys have always thought of WordPress as this, hey, plug and play website, boom, life is good. Well, that's great. The unfortunate side is that businesses feel the same way now. So they're not gonna pay you eight, nine, 10, $12,000. I'm talking about a mom and pop business or probably a small business or something like that. They're not gonna pay you eight, nine, $10,000 to actually add just a WordPress site, give you the money and leave. Maybe some of you guys can convince them to do that, but they will have buyer's remorse after they go tell their buddies, hey, I spent eight, 10, 12, $14,000 on WordPress site and they're gonna get that look like this and then they're gonna come back to you three days later like you ripped me off, I'm giving you bad reviews and that's your career. You do not want that. You want to be in a problem solving mode when it comes to WordPress. WordPress should just be one of the, I'm gonna call it the awareness services that you guys get. It's not the service that gonna make you the most money as far as just deploying a website for them. It's just a starting point to really start to provide more value, to solve more problems for these guys. That's how you gotta use WordPress. You can't just say, hey, I'm just gonna install WordPress websites and keep it update for you guys. Just update the current plugins and that's gonna be it. No, no, no, no. If you do that, you will be basically making minimal wage if not lower than that. They have services out there now. They got web hosts that will actually do that for you. So you're not necessarily providing a lot of value. You're just doing maintenance work and expecting to get premium prices for the maintenance work. At that point, you're not even a WordPress developer. You're just a WordPress technician or something like that, supporting WordPress at that point, which is a lot less money than a WordPress developer would make. So let's make sure we get those terminologies. If you wanna be supporting maintenance, great. Just do that, but make sure your expectations for the pay will be dramatically different. That being said, guys, solve problems. You have to solve problems. If you don't solve problems, you will not get paid the amount of money you think you should make. Those six figures that you think about making as the support doing just general support, you're not gonna make that unless you got a ton of customers and that's gonna be you working your butt off really can't sleep just to make six figure. You wanna be able to make that in 40 hours. Not a lot of work at the end of the day once you actually get your customer base and it's just gonna be, they're gonna want you to actually do more for them but you just don't have the capacity. That's where you wanna be as a WordPress developer, guys. And don't get caught up in number two. Don't get caught up in, hey, I gotta get a client. I gotta take on every client and do free work. No, no, don't make that mistake, especially with a long-term client. If you're doing some work on artwork, let's just say. And you're probably not gonna get this opportunity on artwork, but let's just say you're on artwork. You got this customer, hey, little small startup, just wanna do some work. May not necessarily do anything for them. They want cheap site and they want you to do it. You have no experience. You're just doing it for the first time just to do it. Everybody know what the expectations are. Okay, great. Still don't like it, but okay, I'll give you that. I'd much rather you actually buy a WordPress site, create your own site as a WordPress. Learn that way and then whoever you do work for, you provide premium services. That's personally how I would handle it. But let's just say you don't wanna go that route. You just wanna start making money. Hey, I'll learn doing this first professional website. Okay, great. Don't do it for free. And make sure if you do it for a low price, this person you're not doing any more work for at this point. That's when the work stops. You gotta stop that relationship right then because if you let that go over a course of months and then try to raise the rates, they're not gonna do it. I guarantee you that. So if you can do it, just tell them, hey, upfront, this is gonna be this low price. Everything else goes to the premium prices only because you're doing this to do them a favor and just to kind of build that relationship but the next project will be at the normal rate. Never do that. You will never recover especially with long-term clients, guys. You will always be in the low, you'll be in the commodity side of development and WordPress. Basically, I'm trying to get the most and pay the least. You do not wanna be in that space in WordPress. You wanna be in the space that this person helped me solve this problem that I have, this pain point. Now I'm willing to spend a lot of money to get this pain point fixed. And it's usually not technical. It's usually something related to their business, projects that's gonna allow them to do that. What type of projects you may ask? Well, integration with WordPress. Doing things with their CMS, RMS, all that. It starts and end with the project. And we talk about that in our Seven Step Guide, guys. So links below to that in the description box. It's free. Go ahead and sign up for it. If you already checked out my Seven Step Guide, we talk about detailed real-world projects in my 30-day lunch pad course as well. Links to that below. We got some good rates for you guys. Go check that out for the prices increase and check out those courses. We get into the projects that's gonna really help you stand out as a WordPress developer and what you can market to your clients or things that you can do to really stand out instead of being a commoditized WordPress developer. You are, we want you to be from the commoditized side that just run out of the middle of developer to somebody who helps solve problems. That's what we want you to be, guys. So links to below and all that good stuff. Go check it out. But at the end of the day, guys, at the end of the day, number three, you got to stand out from the competitors. All your competitors, it's just a race to the bottom with WordPress. Hey, I'm just gonna do my update, my theme and my, I'm gonna update my plugins and I'm gonna make free money and these people just gonna pay me $14,000 a month to just do that. No, those days are going and they're drying up for the people who just haven't got caught yet. You want to put yourself in a position to where, yeah, you're still making that same $14,000 a month. You're working less, you're solving problems and that client is happy to give you every penny. And that's where you want to be as a WordPress developer. A lot of you guys struggle with that because you're not focusing on a project, problem solving. You just on up or just basically saying, hey, I can do basic services, fighting over the rates. And then this person tell you, hey, I can get this from this particular person for 10 times cheap. Well, go over there just for that person, 10 times cheap. And when you come back over here because they didn't help you solve a problem, the prices have increased by then. And they're gonna come back, trust me, if they're a serious company who want to take things to the next level with technology, they will come back because at the end of the day, guys, there's not a lot of good developers out there who are tailor-made to help solve industry problems. So when they do come across one, they stand out. It may take them a while to understand this, a while, a couple of weeks, a couple of months, but at the end of the day, if you stand firm, you do what you need to do. You consistent, you will win as a WordPress developer if you take the necessary actions to make sure your projects communicate, showcase your value for you. But at the end of the day, guys, if you haven't already, check out the description box for all the goodies below. Go ahead and check out that premium course, guys. Got a good race for that. Like, subscribe to the content. If you haven't already, I'm gonna put a link to the seven step guide on the screen here. Go ahead and check that out. And I'll let you guys kind of get finished with your day. But until then, I'll see you guys next video. Click the link. Peace.