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Insight
Mikic: Webflow Agencies Struggle with Retainers Compared to WordPress
“With WordPress, you had long development times, you had maintenance, and then you can kind of scale the agency pretty easily. Whereas as we are here kind of just on a runway, like the longest client is around three to six months.”
Opinion
Mikic: Avoid hiring Webflow developers on Upwork due to unqualified talent
“I wouldn't go and hire developers on Upwork. That can be one of the hard things just because I started there, but then it became really popular looking at that there are many, that there's a lot of jobs and that the market is booming. So everybody that was a W…”
Opinion
Mikic: Webflow delivers full front-end capabilities in one-tenth the time
“Until I discovered Webflow and then basically realized that this is technically front-end development kind of for twenty-twenty-two right now, but at that one time we got twenty-sixteen or whatever, just because it gave me everything from a front-end developer…”
Opinion
Mikic: Webflow Is as Game-Changing Today as WordPress Was in 2008
“I feel like Webflow is probably kind of the game-changing tool as WordPress was at, let's say, in 2008, because you're going to have the possibility to build everything on your own terms.”
Opinion
Geary: Using Squarespace or Wix Means You Do Not Own Your Website
“Wix and Squarespace and web flow. All of these other platforms have, you know, the inherent problem of being proprietary closed systems. So when you are building a site on Squarespace, number one, you don't own your website. Squarespace owns your website. You'…”
Assertion Supported
Mikic: Webflow's US Data Routing Forces Feature Loss For GDPR Compliance
“Just because they're a US company, all of the data is transferring to US and then from US to a global CDN afterwards. So it becomes a really a pain to create a Webflow website GDPR compliant, and then you're going to lose some of the Webflow core features. So …”
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Mikic: Webflow builds save clients €100,000 versus traditional agency development
“So if you're comparing us with a development agency that will develop something for six to 12 months on a usual development schedule, clients, even if they pay 30, 40 K for a website, they're saving a hundred to a 100,000 euros in the end, comparing it to a ki…”
Opinion
Mikic: Paid Online Webflow Courses Are Not Worth Buying
“So, I mean, there are many courses you can pay for whatever online, but I don't think any of them are worth it.”
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Mikic: Clients pay Webflow agencies the most for building design systems
“Kind of basically in Webflow, the thing that we like doing the most is creating those kind of design systems as that's what companies are paying for the most”
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Mikic: A 10-Page Webflow Site Can Be Built in Three Weeks
“Let's say the most basic website you can develop and QA it properly, like an agency, like in-house in just three weeks for, let's say, 10 pages.”
Opinion
Mikic: Automated WordPress-to-Webflow migration tools deliver substandard results
“There are maybe some tools that are kind of transitioning from WordPress to Webflow, whatever, but none of them are going to give you great results and are actually going to give you the, all of the benefits Webflow has.”
Insight
Mikic: Replacing WordPress plugins on Webflow often requires custom JavaScript and APIs
“How much good the Webflow is because it doesn't have plugins that can be a downside sometimes. Because instead of paying for a plugin five bucks a month, you're going to probably be developing with JS and APIs and kind of everything on the back end to integrat…”
Disclosure
Mikic: 80% to 90% of Flow Ninja Clients Need No Ongoing Maintenance
“So our role at Flow Ninja is usually we develop the website fully in 80 to 90% of cases. Clients are not going to require to maintain that website later on.”
Insight
Mikic: Universal GDPR Automation for Webflow Sites Is Impractical
“Every single client uses different kind of marketing scripts, different kind of integrations on their website. So in the end, it's going to be pretty hard for them to kind of automate everything. So it's a manual process we have to do and you have to check it …”
Insight
Mikic: Webflow requires an understanding of CSS and front-end fundamentals
“You're actually going to need to know what every single CSS property is going to actually do before actually pulling the trigger. So it's going to require you to actually understand a little bit of how the front end works in the end.”
Disclosure
Flow Ninja's typical Webflow project base price ranges from €20k to €40k
“I would say on our side, like 20,000 euros to like 30, 40,000 euros is our kind of usual kind of project base.”
Assertion Supported
Mikic: Webflow CMS supports only a single folder structure depth
“If you're creating some CMS pages Kind of, you can have only one folder structure versus on WordPress, you will be able to have basically a category, then a post, then maybe another category, then another category, and then that can go pretty deep.”
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Mikic: Flow Ninja launched 400 CMS pages in one week for a client campaign
“Recently we just launched kind of a direct mail campaign for our client. While working on the kind of main marketing website and just kind of launched, I think, 400 pages in a week with a CMS, just basically changing the logo of the company. They're going to b…”
Assertion Supported
Mikic: WordPress powers 40-42% of global websites versus 0.5% for Webflow
“At the moment, there's around 40, 42% of websites on the world on WordPress and just 0.5% on the Webflow.”