I first started on-line using the internet as a marketing tool for my restaurants and used a professional website designer to build my restaurants website. This put me back about $600 on the design and I spent about a $100 monthly on updating costs. This is a rip off having these companies design your websites for you. You most likely have seen those advertisements in the newspaper classified ad sections offering a 5-page website at $500. These companies are established companies with physical locations, hence the increased amount they charge to offset some operational costs like rent, wages, advertising costs etc.
A cheaper method is to find freelance designers who most often than not work from home, so they do not have high operational costs like those of an established company. Their website designs considering quality are very similar to designers employed in big designer companies, so the choice here is a no-brainer.
You will however have to choose your freelancers with a lot of care; the best way to go about this is visiting www.elance.com. This website marketplace allows people from all over the world actively participate in buying and selling their products and services. There are many freelance designers offering their services here, and posting the abstract of your project here would get thousands of freelancers to bid on your project. Apart from getting the best deal, you will be able to choose designers based on their experience, past transactions and ratings, so you really are getting value for your money.
The last method and in my opinion the best method if you want to get started in an on-line business, is to design the website yourself. I lamented using designing companies earlier after I started my first internet marketing business and realized how easy it is to create a website. Think about it, if you only need 5 pages to present some information, why waste hundreds of dollars on it? Just spend a little time to sit down and do it yourself. You can design your own websites even if you do not know a single line of HTML code with the help of eBooks and programs on the net today.
Once you create your own website, maintaining it and updating to your needs would be very easy and would save you a lot of money in the end, than relying on the services of a paid professional.
About this Author
Hilekaan Wada is a seasoned Internet Marketer and is dedicated to helping new comers succeed in their goal to start earning on the internet. The biggest myth about making money online is that it is hard to get started, Hilekaan helps you out with this FREE ebook "How to Create Your Website by 3:45 this Afternoon" at http://www.wadashowtomake.com
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