$2000/Month Freelancer Building A Niche Site

Lukas Cech runs a niche website called NimbleCamper.com 👈

The tag line…

Your guide to car camping in everyday cars. Make your car your bedroom and the outdoors your living room.

Lukas started the site about 2 years ago and has gotten it to ~31,000 monthly page views, ranking in Google for terms like DIY Car camping conversions.

The site earns a few hundred dollars a month via display ads and affiliate links 💵

But before starting that site, Lukas built up his freelance web design business.

He told me via email…

After quitting 9-to-5, I didn’t have a plan on how to earn my living. I set off on a 2 year trip across South America and Asia, volunteering in animal rescue centers, climbing volcanoes and hitchhiking, until I decided it was time to slow down and start making money. 

I started making WordPress websites for 100 EUR from a hostel in Buenos Aires (doing some basic SEO research and targeting this “budget web design” niche helped me get to #1 on Google (Slovak market) and including the price in my SEO description helped with my clickthrough rate.

Lukas now earns about $2000 per month from freelance web design and website maintenance for clients.

In the recent two years, I’ve been actively reducing the number of hours I spend working whilst increasing the hourly rate. I work about 10 hours a week on clients’ projects, which gives me a lot of freedom to work on my other projects, exercise, relax or travel.

Case in point: I recently met up with Lukas when he drove through Andorra 🇦🇩 on his way from Slovakia 🇸🇰 to the south of Spain 🇪🇸 where he will be escaping the winter while house sitting for a few weeks.

He’s a great example of the progression I usually recommend to people new to making money online… 

• Start with freelancing or a remote job
• As you gain experience, increase your rate 📈 and reduce your hours 📉
• Enjoy your free time or invest it into building a Level 3-5 business.

Lukas is investing a good chunk of his free time building up his niche site. I expect that will earn him much more per month than his freelance work in due time.