Want to Save Money Do Your Web Design Homework

Looking for a Web Designer & want to save money!

Save money by doing your Website Homework. You can cut the cost of website development by doing a lot of the work yourself. If you already have an applicable business plan, it can translate into content and niche development quite easily. If your business plan isn't current; redo it.

Try to include the following in your business plan:

Product or service - define the goal of your site.

Define your niche market - who will buy your products/services.

Identify your keyword phrases - what words would your niche market use to search for your site - focus only on your niche market.

Conduct a competition survey - search for similar sites and check out their features and content - make notes regarding what you would like to include on your site. Jot down new ideas and opportunities.

Are you planning to have pictures or illustrations on your site - do you have high quality pictures or slides or will you need to hire a photographer - are you able to scan the pictures yourself or is this another job for your website developer.

Develop your own high-value content. Your prospective customers are looking for information - what information can you give them that will instill trust, confidence and credibility in your product or service. Good quality content creates a bridge between you and your customer, the customer will naturally want to seek out your products/services.

How can you diversify - would you have ads on your site, would you be willing to display affiliate pay per click income, would you be willing to develop other income generating products associated with your sites content.

Your site needs to be refreshed with new content on a continual basis, are you willing to supply the new content etc to the webmaster or are you going to take on the webmaster responsibility yourself. If so, what program will you need to buy and will you need training. Does your website developer agree with your goals.

All of the above is pertinent and valuable information for the website developer. By doing your Website Homework you can save hundreds of dollars. All of the work you do translates into savings while all of the work you don't do translates into hours of extra work and consultation fees by your developer making your costs skyrocket.

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