I made a living doing just that for a long time but with higher paying clients and let me tell you it's no "Easy Way" to make money. It's a pain in the ass dealing with clients when it comes to design and outsourcing eats up a ton of back and forth time, not to mention finding good reliable people is like finding a needle in a hackstack. Coming from someone who did this for many years I can tell you this is certainly not an easy way to make 100k a year at all.
i'd like to butt in some more about this so called 'easy idea' before anyone quits their job or something to make this happen. Web design is ultra competitive. There are a million and one fucking designers out there. I'd love to meet the person who does this with no experience and makes 100k in their first year. It's probably possible, but much much harder without experience. I really can't envision anyone finding someone reliable to work with on DP or SP without some severe trial and error.
"Customer service" will eat you alive and drive you insane in the website design business. You'd think outsourcing for $500 to get a site done sounds great, but happens when the customer keeps coming back calling it 'not what they want' and you either have to keep doing it out of your own pocket or the customer never pays you. they'll called at the most random hours of the night.
You need really high margins to be successful in the long run in website design. you can "flip" your websites for $700 profit or whatever, over and over and think you're making money. TO make your 100K a year, you'll be landing 3 clients a week (also harder then it sounds as an individual) . After about 6 months, lets imagine you have 80-some clients. I can guarantee you that at least 10 of them will have been unprofitable because complaints and wasted time getting their shit done. At least 10 will become a huge pain in the ass because they think they bought a personal butler with their website.
You have two options to make real money in web site design. You can do the Uber Camp method in this thread, but that wont happen unless you scale the shit out of it with a few sales people, fee freelancers, and lots of clients, but at that point it is nowhere near EASY. The other way is to sell to much bigger clients using higher quality labor... but you aren't landing these 10k - 25k jobs without some serious references. It takes a while to build that kind of portfolio.
So scratch this idea out of your head if you arent in it 100%. Matter of fact I got a better idea... how about, you buy a few cars direct from the manufacturer at the lowest possible price? Then, you put them on some dirt in your front lawn and let them sit there. You can sell them for a profit within 24 hours as your neighbors drive by and look at them!
ITS EASY!
This entire thread is a case of "easier said then done."