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Outsourcing wordpress maintenance is a convenient way for agencies to make sure client’s websites are up to date, secure, and in-house team can focus on new projects and high-priority tasks
Usually outsourcing make sense for variety of situations
That’s what most agencies can’t do with an in-house team. In-house time is too valuable to waste on small maintenance plans. These plans usually include just 1 hour of development time, so you need 100+ clients to justify in-house hire
However, if spend this hour on actual audit and send a proposal to client with something like:
You can get 5-10 extra billable hours per month, which makes 5x to your maintenance plan. With 100 clients, it could reach up to 500 billable hours every single month.
Selling audits, maintaining current projects, and landing new clients quickly make your agency’s capacity a bottleneck. By outsourcing routine maintenance of your existing clients – you free up resources to handle the main job:
A common situation that is kept as a secret in the agency world is unused retainer time. At Codelibry we understand that sometimes 1 allocated hour may be unused for some project, but if we’re talking about 30, 50 or 150 website under your agency care plan – that could add up to the solid number of hours that could be used on your behalf:
For any of your agency projects. Meaning if you’re outsourcing to us 100 websites for maintenance, it also means you could allocate unused hours for anything you need under agency:
In-house hires are great, but expensive, here are some of the stats by Country:
All of these are average numbers. Big ranges mean junior to senior roles, so I’d recommend comparing higher ranges in the table above.The actual limit for the person is 160 hours per month, and a developer can’t do 2 things in parallel. Means if you have landed 2 projects – you can do them one by one and client may be unhappy with the delivery timeline.
All of this could be beaten by outsourcing, where maintenance packages starts from 99 USD/month.
About the client Rocket Saas is a marketing agency based in London, UK. They offer a range marketing and PPC related services for SaaS companies, including building landing pages for certain marketing activities. For a while they have core in-house development team. Their business model and successful marketing for own company gives an opportunity to […]
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The things you may ask about outsourcing wordpress maintenance for your agency
Each maintenance package includes at least 1 hour of dev work, so you could allocate 25 hours if no dev is required this month. However, realistically, it makes more sense to use some time on audits to up-sell extra work for your agency.
The unused hours after that are calculated every month and that’s the time you could allocate to any other/extra work for your agency ( design, qa, development )
The basic plan includes:
Yes, you can customise it based on basic package + required additional time allocation ex: basic + 5 hours per site for extra work
Agency licenses are available for the client under maintenance:
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