you have sufficient experience in any field that people are looking for and there are some who are interested in learning this field, you can start creating your own consulting website using WordPress, and start providing paid consultations in the specialty that you are proficient in.
In this article, we will provide a practical explanation of the steps for creating a website through which you can provide paid consultations to your clients via the Internet. The process of booking consultations and payment is done through the website, and you can arrange the consultation method according to the model that is ideal for you.
Launch your own consulting website
There are some necessary things that you prepare before designing and launching your consulting website using WordPress, and we refer to them in the following points:
- Buying a domain : The first step to launching any website on the Internet is to buy the domain, or the identifying name of the site, which is the link through which anyone around the world can access the content of the site, such as www.wordpress-1409476-5242918.cloudwaysapps.com .
- Buying web hosting : Hosting is the place or space on the Internet where complete website files and data are stored and uploaded to it. It is considered the storage space for your site, and you can see the guide explaining linking the domain to hosting .
- Installing WordPress : As we mentioned at the beginning of the article, we will rely on the famous content management system WordPress to launch the site and prepare it completely, so you must install WordPress first and then install one of the famous templates, and during the explanation we will rely on the famous Storefront template and you can use any other template. .
- Installing the Woocommerce add-on : The woocommerce add-on is one of the most popular add-ons that helps us publish paid products and services through the site, and you can publish paid consultations using this add-on.
Read also: Explaining WordPress and creating a WordPress website in steps
Designing the basic pages on the consulting website
We need to prepare and publish 4 basic pages within our consulting website as follows:
- Home : It is the front end of the site. You can view the guide to designing and customizing the home page of the WordPress site in order to design and prepare it as required.
- Consultations : This is the page where we will display a schedule of paid consultations, through which the client can choose the appropriate consultation for him and start booking and paying.
- About Us : This is a page that displays a comprehensive overview of the site, its activities, and the services it provides to customers. Here, the article on creating an About Us page can help you design that page in a professional manner.
- Contact Us : One of the most important basic pages within any website, where you display data and methods of communication between you and your customers. You can learn to design and customize the Contact Us page easily.
Preparing the (Consultations) page and displaying the consultations within it
The following image is an example of the consultations page, which displays all the consultations available on the site. The client can enter the page of any consultation to view its full details, and then he can click on the ( Add to Cart ) button in order to pay the cost of the consultation and obtain it.
In order to design the consultations page, we must first create the paid consultations, as we will add them with the help of the woocommerce add-on , which provides us with a tab within the site’s control panel called ( Products ), where you can enter it and click on the button ( Add a new product )
After clicking on Add a new product, a new page will open for us in which we add the consultation data as follows:
- Consultation title, where you write the title or name of the consultation that appears to visitors to your site.
- Description of the consultation: which explains all the matters that the client will receive after choosing that consultation.
- Consultation price : To clarify the consultation price that the client will pay
- Featured Image: This is the image that appears inside the consultation data page.
In the same way as before, from within the ( Add a new product ) tab, you can enter again and repeat the same steps to add the rest of the consultations that you provide to your clients.
After you have added all the available consultations in the previous method, now you can access the page that displays those consultations easily, by entering the ( Pages ) tab within the WordPress control panel to find one of the pages bearing the name ( Store ), which is a page that was created automatically by the Woocommerce add-on. You can click on the ( View ) button that appears next to the page name to open a page that displays all the consultations that you have added before.
Now you can change the name of the page from ( Store ) to ( Consultations ) easily, by clicking on the ( Quick Edit ) button that appears next to the page name and rename it with the alternative name ( Consultations ).
After changing the name of the page and saving the changes, you can now view the page again to find that it contains all the consultations that you added before.
You can review the guide to payment methods in WooCommerce stores to configure the payment methods through which the customer can pay for consultations.
Adding variable prices for consultations depending on the time of consultation
In the previous steps, we successfully created the consultations and successfully displayed them within the consultations page, where the customer can access any consultation and request it by clicking ( Add to cart ).
What if you want to add variable prices to the consultation that lasts ( one hour ), so that its price is different from the consultation that lasts ( 2 hours ) as well as the consultation that lasts ( 3 hours )?
We can easily make the prices change according to the time of the consultation, by entering the page for editing the consultation whose prices we want to change according to its time, then we go to the (Product Type) tab and choose ( Multiple Type Product ).
As the picture shows you, after choosing the type ( multi-type product ), we go to the ( Attributes ) tab and write ( time ) in the Name field , for example, then in the ( Value ) field we write the times we want to set to change the price accordingly, let it be ( one hour | two hours ). | 3 hours ) As you notice, we put a break between each time and another.
After completing setting the attributes, we click on the option ( used in types ) and then click on ( save attributes ).
After saving, we move to the ( Types ) tab in order to add multiple prices according to the consultation time chosen by the client:
As the previous image shows you, when you enter the ( Types ) tab, we can click on the ( Apply ) button to add a type, after which the list of times that we created previously will appear in front of you in the Attributes tab.
Click on the time ( hour ), for example, to set the consultation time, which is only one hour long:
As you will notice, after choosing the time ( one hour ), a special window opens for us with the consultation data, which is an hour long, and it contains a box ( default price ), where we put the price for the one-hour consultation, and we save it.
In the same way, you can choose the timing ( 2 hours ) and ( 3 hours ) and set their prices as well. After completion, you can visit the consultation page now to find that there is now more than one timing for the consultation, and each timing has a different price than the other:
Tips for growing your consulting website activity
After completing the design and preparation of your consulting website using WordPress, the matter will not end there, as you have a long way to go towards securing your site and marketing the consulting services to a wide range of clients interested in its services. Here are some tips that will help you grow and develop your site in a distinctive way:
- Providing live chat with visitors : One of the important things that would be useful to make available to visitors is the ability to chat directly to visitors and clients through the website, where visitors can send their inquiries and requests via live chat on the website, which helps them carefully choose the appropriate advice for them.
- Preparing the site’s SEO : Working to make the site appear within the various search results on search engines such as Google, Bing, and other very important marketing matters, which help you get more customers searching for your services in search engines.
- E-marketing : E-marketing methods have become many and varied, and the best marketing methods appropriate to the field and content of your site can be used to enhance your access to additional segments of customers interested in purchasing or subscribing to your services.
Conclusion
After you learned the practical explanation for creating and launching your consulting website, always try to pay attention to the content that you provide to your website visitors and clients, as always focus on providing them with a competitive advantage, and make sure that the consultations are useful enough to enhance their trust in you.
You can also create pages on social media sites and publish the content you specialize in to your followers on those platforms, to enhance their trust in you and make them ready to request special consultations to obtain more expertise and experiences related to your specialty.
