The person you chose to help you with your website will depend on many factors…

So here is a bit of info, to consider when looking around, just to make sure that your comparing apples with apples and oranges with oranges 🙂 

My clients tend to be small business owners, many of them come from a creative field such as artists & photographers as well as healers, counselors, psychologists or people who teach and care for others. I think it’s because many of these business owners tend to have the same down to earth qualities that I myself have. We tend not to muck around and we do a good job, we are authentic in our purpose and in our dealings, our concern is helping our clients whilst following our own integrity and values along the way.

In real terms, what does that all that mean for you?

Many providers will do 1 thing described in broad terms ie. Websites, but not all websites are the same and you may find that their definition of a website could be very different from what you would EXPECT your website to do OR may not contain ALL the things a website these days SHOULD contain.

So, to avoid the painful headache stick with me for a few minutes and lets look into what can typically happen…

For example: You take around at a few different providers websites… A simple 5 page site with your logo on the front using a standard template… That might sounds  great when starting out … but lets look at it a bit closer:

• How will your site look different from all the other ones that person has done that month? Will it have your colours, your language, your style?
• What about Search Engine Optimisation (how will people find your site once its live?? Yes, there is a process to make sure Google picks it up.. is that an extra cost? (quite often it is).
• What about a contact form, order form, how will potential customers contact you? Is that extra also?
• How will your customers interact with your website? Is the content, logically laid out, easy to find, easy to navigate? Works on a mobile, tablet & desktop?
• OR MOST importantly how are you going to make your website serve your customers? Has this been thought of OR are we just putting up 5 pages on the internet to try to compete with the millions of others already on there?

Furthermore, the person building your new website, they might be good about building sites but what about branding or colours?

• Do they know how to make your site incorporate your business so your customers know its you? (even if it is a template?)
• Once your site is live, How will you know that people are visiting? Will their service include the reporting / visitor setup so you can see who is visiting you, whats working and whats not?
• Or how about if people need to buy from you… does it include linking to Paypal or payment facility?
• Is there a guarantee or a 30 day period where you can make slight alterations or fix bugs?
• Will it be connected your Facebook page at all, how is that going to work? ..and as I hinted at a couple of times now….
• How available is this provider for when you want to make updates or can you make updates to the website yourself? How much will this cost you each time?

Are those things included in your simple 5 page site? – Usually not, but do YOU need all these things also? These are the things clients tell me about when they come to seek my services that their previous web developer / designer doesn’t do.

That’s all very confusing…but you don’t want to think about that now??

Well, I’ll be frank, you have to! It might seem overwhelming to think of all those things now.. but if you don’t … are you simply wasting your time and money and in a very short period of time you will be frustrated that your website isn’t doing anything for you.

I am not saying that  all these things need to be done from the onset, but some of these things can be done AS your site being created by someone who knows how  – without much additional time at all.  It takes twice as long to go back and add these things in later!!!
Just putting a site up on the internet and crossing your fingers waiting for all the visitors to magically arrive is no longer how it works!  I ask you, whats the point in having a site if no one is visiting it?

I have had sooo many people come to me 6months, a year or2 later after their site is built, frustrated they have invested alot of time and money and wondering why no one visits, why it wasn’t setup correctly and WHY does it all have to be wiped and started again?  Usually they were sold the 5 page template with all the promises in the world but no support to back them up.

Are you not sure what you need ?

Next thing to do is just book in for a FREE 20 min Chat with me. Book a time >

If you don’t know, I am here to say, that is totally ok!!
You only know what you know!

Probably about 95% of my clients have no idea what they want their site to do they just know they want one. That’s all totally Ok, its my job to work that out for you!

Do it yourself? OR Have someone do it for you?

I have a flexible range of services:  Some clients require help in setting up their website, learn how to maintain it themselves and want to take over themselves from there.  Others have ZERO interest in spending their time on the technical aspects would prefer to spend their time working on their business. My goal is to find a way that i can support you in your needs, so all that means is we need to have a conversation about what you have, what you want, and how you run things to see if we can work together.

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