You have decided that the time has arrived when you need to have an internet prescence for your small business. You are fully aware that the future of advertising and gaining new clients will be internet based. What has worked in previous years such as newspaper advertising may well now be a thing of the past. We all have to move with the times if we are to continue to succeed.
The scary thing for many new webmasters is all of the initial costs of setting up a website. I will never forget just how expensive I thought it was when I had my first website built nearly ten years ago. It was based on the subject of speech therapy for stammering and I was investing in this new site at a time when I did not have a great deal of money. It has however one of the best investments that I have ever made. The website certainly enabled a lot of people to find out about the stuttering therapy service that I offer.
The initial costs of setting up a website include paying for the design, the domain and the web hosting. Then there are the ongoing costs of web promotion; there is of course no point in having a top notch website if nobody ever visits it.
So how can we obtain a web design service for an affordable fee? Just like it is in other forms of business it is not so much what you know but who you know. It is a good idea to ask your friends and colleagues if they know of any professional web designers, especially if these friends or colleagues already have a website. This way you may be able to secure a deal on “mates rates”.
The second way is to speak to freelance web designers as these people usually offer cheaper rates than the web design agencies. Many up and coming web designers start up on their own on a self-employed basis and are normally happy to offer a discount whilst they are building up their portfolio.
