How to Save Over $500 When Hiring a Web Designer or Developer
Most people looking to hire a web designer want a kick-ass website that makes them money. They want a return on their investment but are surprised that it definitely costs minimum $2,000 to get a nice website.
So how do you save money and get a website you love that makes you money?
Easy.
1. Go Buy Your Domain and Hosting by Yourself
You need both a domain and hosting before your web guy can start. Come up with a short, memorable domain like:
yinyangpilates.com
atlantacars.com
Then you will need to buy what is called hosting. This is just a place for your web guy to put the files that are your website.
You can get a Free Domain & Web Hosting for $6.95 Per Month with Bluehost. Great Deal.
You just saved yourself minimum $90 and your web guy can start right away.
2. You Update Your Website. Not the Web Guy. Use CushyCMS!
I will charge minimum $60 an hour to upkeep your website once it’s done. And if you need one small piece of text updated, yep, minimum increment is 1 hour and you will be charged $60.
So in order for you to avoid paying so much tell your web person FROM THE START that you want to be able to update your own website. Tell them to use CushyCMS.
Cushy is just a cute word but CMS stands for Content Management System. It is just a way to enable you to edit text on your own website by logging in, typing like you are in Microsoft Word, and hitting Save. Magic.
It requires barely any work for your web guy to set up. They may not even charge you for it!
How much does using CushyCMS save me?
Let’s say you have a website that has news or events on the homepage and you have a couple a month. So you need to have your web guy update it 3 times a month. Minimum $180. Just for one month! This will save you a lot over the year.
3. Hire a Web person that is good at Design & Copywriting.
If you are going to spend $2000 or more on something for you business you better hope you at least get that money back through new customers or orders.
Two things will get you that money back.
Good Web Design / Development and good Copywriting that sells.
You can find these good web people on Sortfolio (just select your city, or any city and go virtual, and select a budget).
You will save with the cheap web designer but you will also never earn your money back. You will make it back with the good Web Designer.
Think about it. You try to give the best return for people buying from you. Same with web people.
Let me know if you have any questions in the comments.
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