How can I benefit from building and maintaining a site for cleaning company.

[Icenevermelts]

My mother in law has a small cleaning business, she has about 50 clients. I was thinking to build her a website and mainain it. It will be my site as long as she owns the business and if she decided to sell the business I can sell website to new owner or sell it separately with traffic.

My question is with all the maintaining fees domain+hosting, etc..., is it worth to invest my time + money?
Will the website or at least domain name bring any value after few years?
Its just a good way to advertise a site for free since they give out their business cards and the website address will be on there too.

 

[InclusiveHost-John]

What will you be offering on the cleaning website? Will it be directing new sales to the business, or kind of be an afterthought with just contact details?

What I mean is are you going to invest into search engine optimization for the site, to gain new traffic through search engines? Who would be your end buyer? Would they care about the website or just the clients?

A domain name cost is probably around $10/year, and a small web hosting account fee is minimal. Compare the website design costs to what your mother in law makes for 1 cleaning job. Is it worth it?

 

[Brian]

As far as the value of the site, really if she sold the business the site should technically go with it. Since it would be on the business card it would be considered part of the business.

As far as how it could help you, it would be a good way to advertise your services as well a "created by" page or something like that. Especially if her clients happen to be small businesses that may need a website built themselves

 

[ValuableCoDomains]

If you want ROI : don't build a website for your mother in law, build a website for cleaners in general and sub-contract jobs(much like a hiring agency) - after you've done that, list your mother in law as top staff, and once she has more work than she can handle, move on to contacting cleaners off of craigslist and skimming your % off the top. Being between a job and a potential employee is a lucrative industry, think big!