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Maybe you call it lazy, or maybe you call it efficient. Either way, you want to live in places like this while still enjoying your life and having a business. Let me show you how I would do this. So, this is the laziest way that I
Learn the laziest, most efficient way to start a web design agency in 2026 and make $10k/month with minimal effort and no prior skills.
Key Takeaways
- You can start a profitable web design agency with no prior skills by using templates and automation.
- Focusing on one niche and copying proven service models saves time and effort.
- Automated SMS outreach with a free website offer generates qualified leads efficiently.
- Outsource work and client communication to avoid burnout and financial risk.
- This business model supports a flexible lifestyle, working only a few hours per week.
Summary
- The video teaches how to build a $10,000/month web design agency with minimal work by leveraging templates and automation.
- It emphasizes working strategically lazy by focusing on one niche and copying proven services rather than reinventing the wheel.
- The creator shares personal success, including making over $2 million last year and maintaining a lifestyle of travel and freedom.
- The process involves scraping local business data from Google, filtering for cell phone contacts, and running SMS outreach campaigns.
- A free website incentive is used to attract clients by offering a demo site upfront, reducing sales friction.
- Automation tools like gorefree.com handle SMS campaigns and follow-ups to maximize response rates with minimal manual effort.
- Outsourcing client communication and technical work is key, paying contractors only after clients pay to avoid losses.
- The video recommends picking industries that spend heavily on leads, such as roofing, remodeling, or architects, to maximize profitability.
- Reputation management and lead response systems are included to add value and increase client sales.
- The entire system is designed to run without the owner’s daily involvement, allowing for a flexible, travel-friendly lifestyle.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction to the Lazy Way to $10k/Month Web Design Business
- 01:14Starting from Zero: Being Strategically Lazy and Efficient
- 02:19Choosing a Profitable Niche Without Overresearching
- 03:30Extracting Business Data Automatically from Google
- 04:37Filtering for Cell Phone Contacts to Maximize Responses
- 05:22Using SMS Campaigns to Reach Out with a Free Website Offer
- 06:26Setting Appointments and Showing Demo Websites
- 07:26Automating Follow-ups and Managing Leads with gorefree.com
- 09:14Outsourcing Client Communication and Technical Work
- 10:52Maintaining a Lazy, Efficient Business Lifestyle
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can think of to get to $10,000 per month with web design. I'm going to share with you all the stuff that I've learned from making over $2 million last year. You can see here, this was the revenue and
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this was the profit. I'll even refresh my screen here so you can see these are live numbers. Over the past couple years, I've also won a bunch of awards including the overall great guy award which was handed to me by the Dalai Lama
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himself. However, let me rewind and bring you back to 2022 when I was pretty lazy. I was traveling. I was doing a bunch of stuff. And as you could see, I was making over $10,000 per month every single month in my business. But if you
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go to my Instagram, you will see I was lazy because I was traveling. I was busy. This is in 2022. I was surfing. I was going to Mexico. I was traveling.
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2022. Here's another photo of me in 2022. I was doing all sorts of stuff and I was still able to make money. So, if your goal is to work 4 hours a week while growing the business, that's what
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we'll describe here. We'll talk about how to start from zero and have no skills, how to be strategically lazy or efficient. I'll show you how to remove all the you don't need. How to get clients automatically, deliver simple
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services again because you want to be lazy and then have other people do all your work for you. However, you only pay them when you get paid. And this is a big key to never losing money. So, here's what you'll need. You need to
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have a copy-paste template of a demo website that you can actually show clients. Now, of course, I don't want you to build this demo website because you're too lazy to do that. I'm going to show you services you can copy and paste
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for new clients because you don't want to offer new services for every single person 'cause that's too much work. And then I'll show you how a lazy business that can run without you up to $10,000 per month. So look, the easiest way to
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do this would be to just pick one industry and just stick to that one industry. So that way you don't have to reinvent the wheel for new people that come on. And then you just copy and paste the services for one roofer in one
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city, another roofer in another city. And roofing is just an example, but really you want to pick someone that spends a lot of money already. And the way most people pick a niche is they look at the common niches and so forth.
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We're too lazy to do all that research. So, what I would do is I would just look at simply people that spend the most amount of money. Okay, these guys are spending $71 to $100 on leads, gas furnaces. I would scroll through this
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list right here, which I'll have linked up below, and it's just a spreadsheet. Look for people like basement remodeling or even architects or let's see soil engineers, garage building for businesses. All these are good industries. So, I would just pick one of
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those. Don't do too much research. And if you want to take it one step further, another thing you can do if you're lazy is just look at people that are already successful. You can go to the awards.goighlevel.com page. These are guys that won winners.
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And I would just look into all their agencies and I would just look at who they're working with because they've already figured it out. So instead of you reinventing the wheel, just do what they do. Literally Google all of these
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businesses and just see what they're doing. Okay. Next, we have to reach out to these people. The cool thing about local businesses is you can easily find them on Google. That's exactly what I want you to do. And then, as you can
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see, you can scroll through all the businesses are very, very easy to find. Now, you're too lazy to go through and copy and paste the business name and the phone number. So, you're going to use a tool like this. Open up the Google page
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and then hit extract business data. And it'll just go through and scroll through all the businesses. It will take their business name. It'll take their phone number and any other details that this has and it will paste them in a nice
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spreadsheet for you so that you don't have to do all this stuff manually. As you can see, it's already scraping everything. So, the search is done. We found 120 companies right here. And as you can see, we have the full lead list
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right here. And the best part is you can categorize this by anything you want. On people that have websites, people that don't have websites, people that have reviews that don't have reviews. And then I would just reach out to these
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people like, look, they have 16 reviews, 4.9-star rating, but they don't have a website. This is a great person to sell website services to. Then I would take that list and hit download as CSV on your computer. Then again, we're too
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lazy to actually reach out to them and try to find out who's going to pick up, who's not going to pick up. So I would go to this website, clearoutphone.io, IO because this will tell you which ones
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are cell phones and which ones are landlines and I would only reach out to the people that have their cell phones linked because that means it's the owner. The front desk person is not going to have her or his cell phone
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linked. So we are going to get only cell phones by using this tool right here.
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And so now you can maximize how many people actually respond to you. Next thing I would do is instead of calling them because that's going to take a lot of time, probably makes you nervous. You probably want to throw up a little every
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time you even think about a cold call. So, what we're going to do is we are going to reach out to them via SMS. So, we're just going to text freaking all these people. And this is a campaign
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that we're going to run. So, we are going to run a free website incentive.
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It's a really good offer. And this is the first text that sends. It says, "Hey man, this is Paul. I was looking you guys up on Google and saw that you don't have a website or anything like that. I
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know this is kind of random, but I went ahead and actually built you one. Do you want to see it? Just say bye-bye if you want me to stop." So what we're doing here is we are saying I already built
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it. Now did you build it? Obviously not because you're too lazy to do that. So if they agree, what you're going to do is then call them and just set an appointment on your calendar. And then on that appointment, you're just going
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to show them the demo website like I explained earlier. And I'll show you how to set this up. And you're just going to lead with value upfront. So we're not going to be hard selling these people.
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And the cool thing about this SMS campaign we have is it actually automatically categorizes people, automatically follows up with them. So this makes your life a whole lot easier.
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But now if you send 100 of these messages per day and scrape Google Maps by 100, 200 people per day, you'll get one to 2% positive reply yet. And these people will basically just raise their hand and say, "Yes, I'm interested." So
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you're only talking to people that responded positively to you and giving them a crazy offer. Now, if you're wondering how we would do that SMS campaign, we just do everything inside of gorefree.com.
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And you would just head over to contacts right here. And you would hit import after you get your list of cell phones from this tool right here. And then you would just select all of them and select add to SMS workflow, which you already
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will have once you sign up with that link. So, you don't have to build anything from scratch like
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click, you can now do that. It's working like crazy. Not just for me, but we've proven that this works for people with all kinds of experience levels and backgrounds. In fact, Gohigh Level themselves rated us the number one
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course because of the results that we get for people and the support that we give. I'm going to show you a toz how to get clients, deliver results, grow your business, and then even hire employees to run it all for you. I'll even talk to
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you on Zoom and answer questions to make sure that you succeed. If you want all this for free, go to laptop CEO.com or check the link in the description. Now, what we need to do is actually build our
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demo. And I'll assume you're too lazy to build your own demo. So, what we're going to do here is just copy someone else's demo and then slightly tweak it to make it ourselves by using this tool right here. It's called smartcloner.com.
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And what this tool allows you to do is to copy other people's websites or funnels into your own account. So, it's just a Chrome extension right here. I'll show you how it works. I'm going to head over to where it says search. Let's say
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I want to work with kitchen remodelers. I'm going to select 25 right here and then I'm going to hit search. Then I have all these websites that are built on go high level and I'm just going to select one. Some of them look kind of
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ugly. Some of them look kind of nice. Let's say I wanted to copy this one. So now I would select my Chrome extension right here. I would hit copy this funnel. Then I'd head over back to my GoHighle account. I head over to where
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it says websites right here. And then I would create a blank website. Once that's created, I would just open up my Chrome extension and then hit paste.
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Copied funnel right here. Paste. Use one credit. And now the whole thing will be pasted into my account. Boom. Now the whole thing is done. Obviously, it can't pull their form. So I would have to link up my own form, but the website is all
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done. So what you'd have to do from here is obviously change all the photos, use AI to just make the pictures, use AI to change the content, maybe change some of the colors, change the logo. But overall, this is way better than
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starting from scratch. Now, the other reason you want to use go high level is just because it allows you to offer different services that then you could charge $300 a month for. If you're just doing web design, you can charge what,
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$50, $100, $150 per month for hosting. We need to charge more because this way you can be lazy and travel and do a bunch of while making money. So, you don't constantly need to get new clients. And once you build this system,
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all you essentially need to do is just give a new client login to your platform. You make them a user on their GoHigh level account and that's it. You can step back and they have access to everything. So realistically, all you
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need to do to get to $10,000 per month is get 34 clients. So if you're doing a 100 SMS messages per day or 200 per day and you have a one or 2% a small percent positive reply rate, that's still one or
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two new clients every couple days. But look, even if it takes you more than one month, it takes you 2 months, 3 months, four months, f even 6 months, it doesn't matter because this is monthly recurring income. So would you spend 6 months to
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make $10,000 a month and then you don't need to sign new clients if you don't want to? Of course. But now you're wondering, well, why would they actually pay $300 per month? Which is a very fair question. So the first one is, okay,
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website AI. So we just built them a beautiful website. Now, of course, that demo website you built is not the final thing because after you sign them on, you need to put their logo, all their photos, and you need to customize it a
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little bit to them. So, they're getting that website. Second thing they're getting is faster lead responses, which equals more sales for them. So, we are actually making them a more revenue. We run a campaign that looks like this. So,
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we link up all their contact forms on their website. We even install a little live chat widget. And this is what happens. So imagine someone fills out a contact form on their website and that person now automatically gets an email
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plus they even get an SMS text message. So if someone goes on a plumber's website and they say, "Hey, I have a leaky faucet." They within 2 minutes will get a text message on their phone that says, "Hey Bob, thanks so much for
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filling out the contact form on our website. We're actually busy serving other customers. We'll get back to you.
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We'll give you a call in a few minutes here. can you please tell us a little bit more about what's going on in your home? So now that customer will be engaged with that business so they are way less likely to just call someone
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else. So again, we are giving them more appointments and saving them all the lost opportunities because they're just too busy. A lot of these guys completely forget about this. So this is a super valuable service. Next we have reviews.
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Look, most of these business owners know how important reviews are, but they just don't get them because they're a little bit afraid. What if they get a bad review? So what we do is we install this reputation management system which is
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basically just a funnel. You put their logo up top and if they select five stars, it redirects right to Google and it publishes that review on Google. But if they select two stars, boom, we have a form. It says, "Sorry to hear that
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you're not satisfied. Please fill this out." And now it says name, email, and it asks for feedback. And that doesn't go anywhere. It just goes to the business owner's inbox. And so now they are way less likely to go directly on
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Google and leave that review. All right. So now you understand the system. So how do we actually make this so we work much less? So here's what I want you to do.
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After you get two clients, because in the beginning you have to do this yourself. But after you get two clients, just hire a virtual assistant from Philippines or from India for $3 to $4 per hour. And you're just going to have
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them do all the work. But you're not going to hire them full-time. You're going to pay them per hour as you need them. This is a great website for that.
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It's called onlinejob.ph. And you're just going to type in goh highle in the search bar. So you can see all the gohighle experts. And then go down to where it says hourly. We're going to set this at max five. And then
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you can hit search. And now it will give us all the candidates that are willing to work for less than $5 per hour. Boom.
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Go highle automation specialist. Now you can literally hire this guy to work for you for less than $700 a month fulltime.
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Now, again, in the beginning, only pay them per hour because you don't have enough clients yet. But what we're doing is we're building the foundation of the business because in the future, as you get more clients, you'll hire them
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full-time. So, now you have someone that's delivering all of these services for you inside of GoHigh Level. Now, you're no longer building websites.
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You're no longer setting up any sort of automations, even though we have most of them pre-built for you. Next, once you're at four to six clients, you need an account manager. And basically this person after you sign on a new client,
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they will talk to all of your clients for you. So after you sign them up for your services, ideally you just don't talk to them again because you're too lazy. And you can do that inside of online jobs.ph again. So just type in
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account manager and then you can see all the people that are willing to work as an account manager for the $3 to4 to $5 per hour range. Now, truthfully, for the account manager, I would actually pay a little bit more because they're going to
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have better English and they will be able to walk your clients through the process a bit better. So, I would be a bit more generous on on the pay for the account manager. So, now all you have to
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do is talk to new clients every single day. It's about 2 to four hours per day.
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So, we greatly reduced your hours. Now, you're not delivering the service anymore. You're not talking to clients anymore. And once you're at $4,000 per month, what I want you to do is start running ads. This is going to be the
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easiest way to do things. Look, if SMS is still crushing for you, then keep on running that. But ads is the best way to essentially just be off hands and have people apply to work with your company.
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These are people that raised their hand and said, "Yes, I'm interested. I responded to your ad. Show me what you have to offer." But you'll have another problem at this point. You'll have too many sales calls and you're too lazy to
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do that much work. So, what you're going to do is you're going to hire a commissiononly salesperson. So, if you head over to commissioncrowd.com, you can see people that are willing to work and do sales for you for no base
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payment, meaning they only get paid when they bring on new sales. And as you can see, there are people in the US, in the UK, in India, in again the UK, Spain, and just go through and interview some
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of these people and you can see their experience. You can customize the filter so they have some level of marketing experience and just bring these people on to close these sales for you. And the other way you can do it is you can also
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search for different Facebook groups. There's all kinds of setters and closers Facebook groups and just start interviewing people and seeing who's good at sales. Now again, you need to be good at sales yourself though so that you know what it is you're looking for
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and you can actually give them advice. So now here's the outline of your new 10K per month business. Ads are bringing you appointments on autopilot. The salesperson brings them on as clients.
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The account manager onboards them and talks to them every single month. make sure that everything's working, everything is going well, and then the GHL tech person builds everything and then fixes any problems. So, if they have a problem with their website or
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with their automation, guess what? They reach out to their account manager. The account manager sends that to the tech person and they fix it. So, you are removed from that. So, where do you come in? Where does your 4 hours a week come
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in? Well, you're going to be filming new ads. This is about 1 hour per week.
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Again, this is give or take. Next is you have meeting with your team for updates.
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This could be one, two, three hours. Depends on what stage you're at. And then there's also random that's going to come up in the business.
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Something might break in automation where it's going to require your time. But overall, let's call it 2 hours. So, this is on average roughly how you could work 4 hours a week and systemize your entire business so that you can travel
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or just be lazy and watch TV and eat chips all day. I don't know what you want to do. But if you want to be efficient with your time or lazy, this is how I would build my business.
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