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This is excellent feedback and exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! Regarding the full service option, is this fairly common today? I found quite a few serv

This is excellent feedback and exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! Regarding the full service option, is this fairly common today? I found quite a few services in the Church niche (one was on Andrew Warner's Mixergy podcast a while back) but I think there's still quite a bit of DIY involved. I think such business are profitable if your operating costs are small (1-2 full timers maximum with someone doing direct sales at least 20-40% of the time).

akg_67 14y ago
The full service is very common in non-tech niche segment who value the importance of website. Most of your time will go into acquiring customers in your niche: Convincing why prospects need a website and why should prospects buy from you? A minimal setup will be to have a partnership between two people. One spend 80% of time acquiring customers and second one spends 80% of time delivering service. With experience and traction, your cost of customer acquisition and cost of service delivery will go down. DIY is pretty much dead as a starter in such niche segments and typically will attract clients looking for lowest cost, i.e. high unpaid overhead.