What Are Website Design Costs?
Simple Question, Many Answers!

What are website design costs? It's a simple question with many answers. Find practical, actionable answers here. Learn the need-to-know stuff that will really help you build a successful online business.

The key thing is that website design costs are just one part of the total cost of building and operating a successful Internet business.

For example, in the offline world, your place of business is part of your business but it is not THE business.

Similarly, in the online world, your website is part of your business, but it is not THE business.

My professional services focus on the big picture, the entire package, the overall strategy. They encompass everything including website design.

But that does NOT mean that those services are costly.

The next section explains why.

The True Cost Of E-Business

The cost of having any business follows a simple formula:

COST = TIME + EFFORT + MONEY

If you could put a dollar value on your TIME and EFFORT you could come up with a total cost in dollars.

Now, unless you already have the experience (successful, of course), you'll need help building your online business. Here's the thing.

The more you try to do on your own, in an effort to reduce out-of-pocket costs,

• the longer it will take to build your business,
• the higher will be the risk of failure and
• the longer it will take to realize you've failed.

Website design costs can be a major factor, especially if design includes content development, but even more so if the business owner mistakes Web site for Web business.

It's easy to get distracted by the mechanics of building a site, thinking all you have to do is "Build it and they will come." If there's anything that can be guaranteed on the Web, it's that this philosophy does not work.

So how do you find the right balance of doing things on your own and spending money on outside resources?

It's not an easy question to answer.

We all have different skill sets, interests, attitudes, energy levels and so on. Often we're not fully aware of our own abilities. How could an outside resource know better?

Well that's the thing. Sometimes an outsider CAN more readily recognize your strengths and weaknesses when it comes to building a successful online business.

Tada!!! This is where I come in!

With minimal involvement on my part (and therefore at minimal cost to you) I can be your mentor, helping you:

• Choose what work to do yourself
• Choose what work to outsource
• Stay on the fast track to success

Now, website design costs are a big part of the picture, for the reasons mentioned above. So this is where you can leverage a small amount of mentoring into big savings in website design costs. This in turn translates into lower overall business costs.

So What Will It All Cost?

You need to know what it will cost. At the same time you need to see the cost as an investment in your business. You have to analyze the risks and rewards. It's not easy without prior experience.

Here are some numbers you can use for budget purposes:

• To have a foundation website built for you, budget $2,000 to $5,000. The less you spend the more you will have to do yourself... more time, more risk of costly errors.
• To get my consulting services on a spot basis, budget $100 an hour. This applies to any of the services mentioned on this site.
• To get a fixed price quote, please contact me so we can agree on a precise scope of work that meets your needs.

How to get started?

You're always welcome to contact me to chat about your needs, especially if it's about website design costs and their pivotal role in the overall cost of an online business.

Here are some preliminary steps for you to take before contacting me. (See, no cost already!)

• Submit, or at least study carefully the Internet business proposal questionnaire.
• Prepare a table of contents for your site as if you were doing a book rather than a site.

If you were to do just those two things, you'll save a bundle of money by getting started on the right track. They would form a rock-solid basis for any discussions we might have.

So give me a call at 450-534-4253. We'll get to know one another, work out the details and I'll confirm everything with a written offer.

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