Own business: web-design studio
The content of your Internet portal is quite complicated and troublesome. At the same time, today your website (or at least a page on a social network) is a very effective tool for promoting your products or services, the website allows you to directly contact with consumers, carry out online sales and still deal with a whole list of tasks that are solved most quickly and economically via the Internet. profitable and efficient. In connection with all this, the need to create a website is great for any company (although, of course, there are areas of business where the lack of a website is not critical), but not every company is able to develop and support the created Internet portal on its own. Usually these processes are outsourced, and this article will consider the possibility of opening your own web-design studio. Many consider this direction to be very profitable and promising, but there are many features that must be considered before the start.
In general, at present, a web-design studio is understood in most cases by an office that offers a whole range of services, which also include development and even website promotion. However, it should be noted that in the narrow sense, the concept of web-design involves the design of the site, its content, possibly in combination with fullness. Therefore, clients of a web-design studio usually become clients who already have their own website, but they need to improve its functionality or simply fix the graphic elements, increasing the attractiveness of their page. However, it should be noted that it is usually unprofitable to deal exclusively with design services, the client comes for a wider range of services, and to work in the field of web-design you still need the same capacity as for the creation of the site. In this regard, today such a studio is a multidisciplinary organization that is able to solve all sorts of questions of its client; in this case, one can speak of a good profitability and competitiveness of its business in this direction.
To start your work, you need to register as a business entity, then you can take shape as an individual entrepreneur, because then you can solve all bureaucratic issues as soon as possible and with minimal effort and money. If there is a need to register a legal entity, then a preferred form is a limited liability company, because in this case, as in the case of individual entrepreneurship, a simplified taxation system will be available, involving a transfer in favor of the state no more than 6% of income or 15 % of operating profit as taxes. Design activities themselves fall under the definition of (JECD 2) 74.1 Specialized design services, but other classifiers may be required in their work. The work itself will not require obtaining additional permits or licenses only if the company does not intend to engage in hosting activities or work in the field of information security.
The actual question is the market situation. Yes, at the moment it cannot be said that the market suffers from a shortage of supply, usually the consumer has the opportunity to choose among many studios, because a significant percentage of graduates who have mastered programming and / or design are trying to engage in web design. At first glance, everything really seems very simple – it is enough to learn any of these specialties, find a team and like-minded people who will deal with other aspects of the activity, then make an advertisement about themselves and end up in an interesting business and get paid for it. But if we even discard the technical issue (programming itself and all the accompanying ones), then we must not forget that design work is an extremely creative process, and even a good education may not be enough, because we also need artistic talent. And also the ability to work in strict accordance with the requirements of the client, that is, to be able not only to create something new, to create, to be creative, but also vice versa – to restrain one’s talent by doing exactly what was asked. Still, only professionals can do this, and it can be very difficult to find them. And everything else – programming, a specialist of the appropriate profile should be able to cope with the task of any complexity. That is why web-design services are well paid for – after all, this is not an easy process, often requiring a non-trivial approach. From this we can conclude that if at the start there really are competent and experienced people, then we can count on winning in the competition even with leading companies in the local market. Otherwise, even with large investments, if you type the wrong command, you can quickly go bankrupt – here the client still primarily appreciates quality.
