June 23, 2009 at 16:29Own web-studio: from idea to implementation
Recently, stories about organizing your own business began to appear on the hub. I decided to write a similar story to our studio creating sites "Web ++" .
How did we start our activity as students, where did we get our first orders and money from? To your attention: a short story about the formation of your own website creation studio.
2005, I was 18 years old, I was a student at the Volgograd Polytechnic College, I studied in the 4th year in the specialty “Computing machines systems and networks”. The fact that I will work in the field of creating / promoting sites I did not expect. He was fond of system administration, was an ardent (!!! very ardent !!!!!) fan of Gentoo Linux, was engaged in martial arts, played the piano (yes, this is all very strange).
In parallel with his studies, he worked as a system administrator in one of the local companies.
Once, a classmate asked me to help with the development of the site, which he was assigned to work. It was necessary to create a website for one cosmetology office, no dynamic elements, bare HTML. Having picked up a nice template, I pile this site in 2 days. The customer was satisfied, and I received 200 (!) Rubles for the work. Without thinking twice, I concluded that you can earn money by creating sites and began to develop in this direction.
Literally immediately, my classmate connected to me, with whom we founded all our activities.
We had neither experience nor basic knowledge, actually there was nothing, including money :) But there were ideas and a desire to develop.
I needed literature. I purchased a book by Luke Welling, Laura Thomson, "Developing Web Applications Using PHP and MySQL." After reading, we were ready to turn the mountains and thought that we were all over the teeth.
And so, about a month passed 4.
By that time I found VDS with Gentoo Linux preinstalled and pretty quickly raised all the environment we needed.
First orders
An order was needed. It was found by my companion, it was necessary to develop a site for a store selling spare parts for domestic cars. We made this site in 3 weeks and received 5,000 rubles. The store director, in principle, didn’t care about the site, if only it was, and in which case he could link to it. Monthly they paid 500 rubles. for those. site maintenance (of our own free will, by the way), we have the first almost "free" cash flow, albeit a small one.
Next was a session, a diploma, admission to the university. Everything went well, and we continued our work.
A very talented person studied with us at the university in terms of design. We invited him to work with us, he agreed, and there were three of us.
We needed more orders.
My, at that time already ex-classmate from college, had a business in the field of freight cars. He needed a website, as well as a program for implementing a simple workflow.
The three of us happily took up work for which we received a good amount of money. It was decided to formalize our activities officially.
I took up this issue.
IP or LLC
Choosing between IP and LLC, IP was chosen. By the way, for some reason, many people think that IP is not solid. I have a lot of friends who carry out their activities as an individual entrepreneur, and some of them will have better business than LLCs and other legal forms. So with us, for all our activities I have not observed any problems.
To register an individual entrepreneur, I turned to a law firm that issued me all the necessary papers, I only went to a notary public once and paid for the state. a fee at the bank - 600 rubles, in my opinion.
Registration of all documents for IP registration cost us 2,400 rubles.
In time, the processing of all documents took about 20 days.
Payment account
Next, it was necessary to open a checking account. We chose Sberbank because of its statehood and rather close proximity to my place of residence.
All documents for opening an account were also provided to us by the legal entity. office through which we registered IP.
Opening an account cost 2,300 rubles: 1,000 rubles. lawyers for the preparation of all documents and 1300 rubles. for opening an account with the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
Subscription fee in Sberbank - 700 rubles / month.
Be sure to open a tax account when you open / close a tax account, otherwise a fine of 5,000 rubles will be imposed.
Company Name
This caused the most problems. Many options were sorted, and we settled on "Web ++". Why? I do not know. It just occurred to everyone, everyone liked it, decided to stay on it.
Website
We started developing a website for ourselves. At the same time, I took courses in search engine optimization, where I received all the basic knowledge about what SEO is and what it is eaten with.
At the time when the site was ready and posted on the network, I completed the courses and received a certificate on SEO. Next, I optimized the site for targeted requests, posted links, and a month later we were in the TOP-3 by Google and Yandex. In parallel, contextual advertising was used. And off we go. On the site, the target audience increased and not a small part was converted into calls, and then to customers.
"Spice acted" Dune. There was work.
Office
Everything turned out chocolate with the office! Luckily, I have a free 3-bedroom apartment, which we equipped as an office. Well, from this, therefore, no costs for a cleaner, security, etc. Only communal + Internet on 1Mb.
In total, ~ 2000 rubles are spent per month.
No inconvenience. It is warm in winter, cool in summer. From the windows a view of the Volga River. At moments of special load, they stayed overnight.
Technique
We need to work on something. From home I brought the system unit, my companion brought a laser printer. To this we bought:
Hosting
We use hosting from the RU Center ( http://hosting.nic.ru/ ) for projects in PHP and LLC Deep Forest ( http://diphost.ru/ ) for projects in Python. So far, no needs have ever arisen in my own server.
Bookkeeping
We entrusted bookkeeping to a third-party accounting firm. This is a significant time saving for little money - 1000 rubles / month.
Problems
The main problem that we most often encountered was parallel studies at the university. Some, possibly promising projects had to be abandoned, due to lack of time resources.
Now study is over, there is once more free time and we have a lot of ideas for development.
Nevertheless, even with studies, work has always been.
That's how we raised our business, being at that time students, without experience, without knowledge and without money.
The main thing is not to be afraid to try, and everything will turn out.
Several years passed, stability in incomes formed, regular customers appeared who did not allow us to sit idle. Work gives only joy and pleasure.
Such is the short history of the creation of the website development studio in Volgograd - Web ++ .
UPD : Opening our own website creation studio cost us ~ 50,000 rubles.
How did we start our activity as students, where did we get our first orders and money from? To your attention: a short story about the formation of your own website creation studio.
How the idea was born
2005, I was 18 years old, I was a student at the Volgograd Polytechnic College, I studied in the 4th year in the specialty “Computing machines systems and networks”. The fact that I will work in the field of creating / promoting sites I did not expect. He was fond of system administration, was an ardent (!!! very ardent !!!!!) fan of Gentoo Linux, was engaged in martial arts, played the piano (yes, this is all very strange).
In parallel with his studies, he worked as a system administrator in one of the local companies.
Once, a classmate asked me to help with the development of the site, which he was assigned to work. It was necessary to create a website for one cosmetology office, no dynamic elements, bare HTML. Having picked up a nice template, I pile this site in 2 days. The customer was satisfied, and I received 200 (!) Rubles for the work. Without thinking twice, I concluded that you can earn money by creating sites and began to develop in this direction.
Literally immediately, my classmate connected to me, with whom we founded all our activities.
We had neither experience nor basic knowledge, actually there was nothing, including money :) But there were ideas and a desire to develop.
I needed literature. I purchased a book by Luke Welling, Laura Thomson, "Developing Web Applications Using PHP and MySQL." After reading, we were ready to turn the mountains and thought that we were all over the teeth.
And so, about a month passed 4.
By that time I found VDS with Gentoo Linux preinstalled and pretty quickly raised all the environment we needed.
First orders
An order was needed. It was found by my companion, it was necessary to develop a site for a store selling spare parts for domestic cars. We made this site in 3 weeks and received 5,000 rubles. The store director, in principle, didn’t care about the site, if only it was, and in which case he could link to it. Monthly they paid 500 rubles. for those. site maintenance (of our own free will, by the way), we have the first almost "free" cash flow, albeit a small one.
Next was a session, a diploma, admission to the university. Everything went well, and we continued our work.
A very talented person studied with us at the university in terms of design. We invited him to work with us, he agreed, and there were three of us.
We needed more orders.
My, at that time already ex-classmate from college, had a business in the field of freight cars. He needed a website, as well as a program for implementing a simple workflow.
The three of us happily took up work for which we received a good amount of money. It was decided to formalize our activities officially.
I took up this issue.
Official activity
IP or LLC
Choosing between IP and LLC, IP was chosen. By the way, for some reason, many people think that IP is not solid. I have a lot of friends who carry out their activities as an individual entrepreneur, and some of them will have better business than LLCs and other legal forms. So with us, for all our activities I have not observed any problems.
To register an individual entrepreneur, I turned to a law firm that issued me all the necessary papers, I only went to a notary public once and paid for the state. a fee at the bank - 600 rubles, in my opinion.
Registration of all documents for IP registration cost us 2,400 rubles.
In time, the processing of all documents took about 20 days.
Payment account
Next, it was necessary to open a checking account. We chose Sberbank because of its statehood and rather close proximity to my place of residence.
All documents for opening an account were also provided to us by the legal entity. office through which we registered IP.
Opening an account cost 2,300 rubles: 1,000 rubles. lawyers for the preparation of all documents and 1300 rubles. for opening an account with the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
Subscription fee in Sberbank - 700 rubles / month.
Be sure to open a tax account when you open / close a tax account, otherwise a fine of 5,000 rubles will be imposed.
Company Name
This caused the most problems. Many options were sorted, and we settled on "Web ++". Why? I do not know. It just occurred to everyone, everyone liked it, decided to stay on it.
Website
We started developing a website for ourselves. At the same time, I took courses in search engine optimization, where I received all the basic knowledge about what SEO is and what it is eaten with.
At the time when the site was ready and posted on the network, I completed the courses and received a certificate on SEO. Next, I optimized the site for targeted requests, posted links, and a month later we were in the TOP-3 by Google and Yandex. In parallel, contextual advertising was used. And off we go. On the site, the target audience increased and not a small part was converted into calls, and then to customers.
"Spice acted" Dune. There was work.
Office
Everything turned out chocolate with the office! Luckily, I have a free 3-bedroom apartment, which we equipped as an office. Well, from this, therefore, no costs for a cleaner, security, etc. Only communal + Internet on 1Mb.
In total, ~ 2000 rubles are spent per month.
No inconvenience. It is warm in winter, cool in summer. From the windows a view of the Volga River. At moments of special load, they stayed overnight.
Technique
We need to work on something. From home I brought the system unit, my companion brought a laser printer. To this we bought:
- 2 LCD monitors for 6500 rub. each. Total 13,000 rubles.
- System unit - 10,000 rubles.
- Laptop - 21,000 rubles. + RAM strip for 2 GB - 1400 rubles. Total 22,400 rubles.
- ADSL modem - 1200 rubles.
- 3 keyboards of 300 rubles each each one. Total 900 rubles.
- 3 mice for 150 rubles. each one. Total 450 rubles.
- Twisted pair of 50 meters - 250 rubles.
- Connectors 10 pieces - 40 rubles.
Hosting
We use hosting from the RU Center ( http://hosting.nic.ru/ ) for projects in PHP and LLC Deep Forest ( http://diphost.ru/ ) for projects in Python. So far, no needs have ever arisen in my own server.
Bookkeeping
We entrusted bookkeeping to a third-party accounting firm. This is a significant time saving for little money - 1000 rubles / month.
Problems
The main problem that we most often encountered was parallel studies at the university. Some, possibly promising projects had to be abandoned, due to lack of time resources.
Now study is over, there is once more free time and we have a lot of ideas for development.
Nevertheless, even with studies, work has always been.
Conclusion
That's how we raised our business, being at that time students, without experience, without knowledge and without money.
The main thing is not to be afraid to try, and everything will turn out.
Several years passed, stability in incomes formed, regular customers appeared who did not allow us to sit idle. Work gives only joy and pleasure.
Such is the short history of the creation of the website development studio in Volgograd - Web ++ .
UPD : Opening our own website creation studio cost us ~ 50,000 rubles.