Use case: side business

Start a side business selling brands

Every local shop, tradesperson and creator needs a brand, a logo and a website. With BrandForge you can build all of it in minutes and sell it under your own name, online or in your own town. No design skills, no agency, no code.

  • Logos
  • Websites
  • Brand kits
  • Social content
  • Print, local
Become a partner See what you could earn
Your brand
White-label, start to finish
Minutes
From brief to a finished brand
Recurring
Websites and care, monthly
See how BrandForge works
Why this works as a side business

A real service you can sell from day one

The hard part of branding used to be the work: the design, the website, the copy. BrandForge does that part. What is left is the part a person is good at, finding businesses that need a brand and looking after them.

Demand is everywhere

New businesses, rebrands, market stalls, side hustles and creators all need an identity. You are not creating demand, you are serving demand that already exists on your street and in your feed.

You keep the margin

You set your own prices and keep the difference over your wholesale cost. Build a brand in minutes, charge like it took a studio a week, because to the client the result is the same.

It builds recurring income

A brand is one payment. A website, hosting and ongoing care are monthly. Every client you sign adds to a base that pays you again next month, whether you are working or not.

Low time, low risk

No stock, no premises, no staff. Start in evenings and weekends, keep your job, and let it grow at the pace that suits you.

The numbers

What could a side business like this earn?

Set your own numbers. Nothing here is fixed, and the cost slider is yours to set from your own partner plan. This is an illustration, not a promise.

How many businesses you sign each month.

One-off price for the brand, logo and site build.

Hosting, website care and updates, billed monthly.

Estimate. Set this from your own partner plan.

Your profit in year one €0 after the cost you set, from clients signed over twelve months
€0 Monthly profit by month 12
€0 Recurring revenue you are collecting
0 Clients on your books
Monthly profit, month 1 to 12. The curve climbs because recurring clients stack up.

This assumes clients stay with you, which is why pricing fairly and looking after people matters. Your real result depends on how many clients you win, what you charge and how many you keep. Want to pressure-test it against a plan? See pricing or read how reselling works.

How to start

From evening idea to first paid client

  1. Become a partner

    Sign up and set your white-label details once. Your logo, your colours, your domain. The BrandForge name never shows to your clients.

  2. Pick who you serve

    Local trades, cafes, market sellers, creators, new founders. Starting with a niche you already understand makes the first sales far easier.

  3. Build the brand in minutes

    Answer a few questions about the client and generate a brand, logo, website and social content. Refine anything in a click, then hand it over as your own work.

  4. Sell, then keep them

    Charge for the build, then bill monthly for the website and care. Every client you keep adds to income that arrives whether or not you are working that week.

Two ways to sell

Online, in your local community, or both

Most people start where they already have contacts, then add the other channel once the first few sales land.

In your local community

Walk into the businesses you already pass every day. A new cafe, a plumber with a van and no logo, a shop with a tired sign. Show them a finished brand on the spot and you have a client.

  • Trades, shops, restaurants and market sellers
  • Printed logos, flyers, signage and cards through web to print
  • Face to face trust, repeat work and referrals

Online

Sell to clients anywhere. Package brand kits, offer them to your audience, or take on remote businesses that want a full identity without hiring an agency.

Not sure which fits you? Compare the reseller models.

Your product range

One platform, a full menu of services

Sell these on their own or bundle them into packages. Each links to how it works.

Brand strategy Positioning, audience and voice, with the reasoning behind each choice Logo design Vector logos previewed on signs, screens and packaging Business naming Name ideas checked against live domain availability Websites A complete, on-brand site ready to publish Social content On-brand posts that keep clients paying after launch Print for local work Cards, flyers and signage sent straight to print

See the whole toolkit on the features page, or look at real output in the brand examples.

A note from our founder

The barrier was never the ambition

I have spent over twenty years around hosting, domains and small business. The people who want to build something on the side rarely lack drive. What stops them is the gap between the idea and a product good enough to charge for.

BrandForge closes that gap. You bring the hustle and the local knowledge. The platform delivers work that looks like it came from a studio, under your name, in minutes. That is a real business you can start this month.

We are early, and we are honest about it. If something is missing for the way you want to sell, tell me. Early partners shape what we build next.

Michiel Grotenhuis

Michiel Grotenhuis

Founder and CEO, BrandForge

What you can count on

Set up to make you look good

  • Fully white-label

    Your brand on everything, start to finish. Clients never see ours.

  • No design skills needed

    Describe the client and generate professional work. Nothing to learn.

  • Your prices, your margin

    You decide what to charge. You keep the difference over your cost.

  • Sales tools included

    Material to help you pitch and close, in the partner portal.

  • Help when you want it

    Rather not sell solo? There is a done for you route too.

Partner sales tools We do it for you

Side business FAQ

Questions before you start

No. You describe the client and BrandForge generates the brand, logo, website and social content. You can refine anything in a click, but nothing requires design tools or code.

Whatever the result is worth to them, not what it cost you to make. A full brand and website is a studio-level deliverable. You set the price, and you keep the margin over your own cost.

The brand build is a one-off fee. Websites, hosting and ongoing care are billed monthly. As you keep clients, those monthly fees stack into a base that pays you again each month.

Your move

Build the side business you keep meaning to start

Become a partner, set your brand once, and sell your first brand this month. Online, in your community, or both.

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  • No design skills
  • Your brand, not ours
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