🖥️ Websites for local businesses
Simple, fast websites and Google Business Profiles for trades, cafés, clubs and clinics. Suits: People comfortable with a site builder or basic code and good at explaining things simply.
Reviewed 2026-09-25 · what a review checks
Earnings are modelled, not measured: €30–€70 an hour (assumed effective hourly rate; usually a fixed project price plus a monthly care plan) × your hours × 20–60% of those hours paid in the first months. Check local prices before you set yours.
Find five local businesses with no site or a broken one on Google Maps. Screenshot what a customer sees today.
- Build one sample site for a real local business (unpaid demo)
- Price a fixed 5-page package
- Show the demo to that business and two similar ones
To start: €0–€200 — site-builder account, domain for your own portfolio.
Monthly: €10–€50 — software.
- GDPR: cookie consent and a privacy notice on client sites.
- Written scope: pages, revisions, who supplies content.
- Scope creep — fix the number of pages and revisions.
- Clients who never send content: get it before you start.
Self-employed income; VAT once services turnover passes €42,500.
Declaring side income as a PAYE worker. Side income is taxable from the first euro. If your net non-PAYE income is under €5,000 (and gross under €30,000) you can declare it on Form 12 through myAccount. At €5,000 net or more you are a “chargeable person” and must register for self-assessment and file Form 11 by 31 October. Source · checked 2026-09-25
VAT registration thresholds. You must register for VAT once turnover exceeds, or is likely to exceed, €42,500 a year for services or €85,000 for goods. Source · checked 2026-09-25
Business expenses. Costs incurred “wholly and exclusively” for the side business (tools, software, platform fees, a share of home costs) are deductible from the income before tax. Keep receipts for six years. Source · checked 2026-09-25
Educational information about Irish tax rules, not tax, legal or financial advice. Your position depends on your circumstances — check with Revenue or a qualified adviser.
Day-by-day actions for your first week, and what to do at your first customer, first €100, first €500 and when to scale. Included with Hustler (€9.99/month, 14-day free trial, cancel any time).