How much will it cost to build a website for your business?
There's a definite difference between the impact that a 'homemade' website will have on your clients compared to one that has been carefully planned and designed professionally.
However, you don’t need to write a blank cheque to make it all happen either. One of the big advantages of a website over most other marketing is that it can grow gradually whilst paying for itself and continue to grow for as long as you are in business. The only marketing that I’ve found that is cheaper than a website is word-of-mouth. Unlike an ad in the yellowpages your website could continue running for years without much expense.
We create websites for just $550 inc GST with a domain name and hosting for a year right. A couple of examples of this one page starter website include:
Most of the websites I setup cost somewhere in the vicinity of $1100 - $3300 for static type sites of 5 - 25 pages. Some examples of this size of site include:
and about double that for dynamic ecommerce sort of sites. If you want me to do a really thorough job, optimise your content, do custom programming, animation, lots of special graphics, search engine marketing and more then the starting point is about $5500 and then upwards according to how big your vision for the website and how much business you want to generate. Some examples of more advanced sites include:
If you do a quick calculation on the typical lifecycle of a website of 2 – 5 years between major overhauls (redevelopment is often driven by changing business focus, competitors or market forces) with the potential to reach a huge market, at minimal ongoing expense, with the most detailed statistics of any form of advertising and can be adapted to your changing business context and climate, I'm sure you will realise that this is a pretty necessary part of running a successful business.