Is it a good idea to create a website yourself?

In this post we will help you to evaluate if it is a good idea to create a web page yourself. We are not referring to the person who studies web design or programming professionally, but to entrepreneur, trader, businessman or freelancer who one day tries to create a web site.

Is enthusiasm a good advisor for creating a website?

You’ve thought about making your own website!…. You’ve been encouraged from Youtube, from forums… But… then you had some doubts?

Is it a good idea to create a website yourself? You should know that you will go through several phases once you take action guided BY ENTHUSIASM to the website creation for yourself. But Shouldn’t we consider more factors?

We help you see more possibilities before you make your decision.

What does your subconscious tell you about creating a website yourself?

1. We believe that enthusiasm is ALWAYS a positive thing and “of course” … it will help us
2. We have the feeling that we will be able to have EVERYTHING under control.
3. We think: “No one will know better than ourselves what we want or need”.
4. The hours I spend are saved by paying someone else for them (Are my hours worthless?).

Avoid frustration by planning in advance how to make your own website

Here is a guide to know if you are going to make your website or not:

• Evaluate how much time you can dedicate really to this task.
• You will have to learn by paying for it or by free tutorials even if they are in a messy way?
• What is the approximate creation and production time?
• I can dedicate myself to being an entrepreneur if I am going to do all the design and programming tasks myself  -even if I don’t know anything about the subject-.
• Finally: If I make a calculation of how much my hour costs and how many I have spent How much will it all cost me?

Do you consider the value of your time when creating a website ?

The mistake of “… all in all, my time costs me nothing…”

The main mistake is to think that your time is worthless. It is to believe that if you dedicate time to the creation of a website or online store, it’s FREE.

The reason why most people will never get rich is very simple: . THEY ASSIGN ZERO VALUE TO THEIR TIME.

Tasks to do before creating your website

Consider beforehand the time you will have to spend on

Let’s assume that your profession is neither DESIGNER nor PROGRAMMER, but that your attention is focused on the following issues:

• Have good products to offer for sale
• If you have a physical store, you will need time to take care of several things:
  • Discharge
  • Contact a consultant
  • Bringing you up to date fiscally
  • Fixing up the premises and its facilities, etc.
• If you have prepared courses as a teacher or you are in the process of doing so
  • Planning and creating the course
  • Edit or publish it, etc.
• If you have or are preparing “electronic” products such as books, tutorials, etc.
  • You will need to choose them
  • List them, and create prices with spreadsheets, etc.

Normally you will have a lot of work and that occupies (or should occupy) part of your time.

• Put your stock in order,
• Contact with suppliers (of products, services, etc.)
• Making lists, in Excel or in databases
• Analyze costs and prepare price lists
• Dedicate yourself to finding partners or affiliates to increase sales.
• Thinking about campaigns
• Forming your company or updating your self-employed status
• Contacting banks, applying for loans, grants
• Decide which software you will need to manage your business.
• Your contact with a tax advisor

All this will occupy your time in essential tasks, which will subtract time for you to learn how to make and correctly position a website or online store and also“keep it alive” through new content, price updates and also see constant statistics to know its positioning and quality. [Aquí te pueden ayudar con esto]

How much will your website cost if you make it yourself?

Let’s assume that you are aiming for a monthly profit of 1200 € (just to make the following calculations).
If you work 20 days at 8 hours each, your working hour is worth 7,50 € 

It’s time to crunch some numbers …

I am right, am I not?

We will try to put in the following table the MINIMUM you need to make your web site. (It does not mean that you will get a perfect knowledge or that you will do an optimal job for these amounts, but we will make an approximation for you to evaluate if it is worth it or not that you do your web yourself).

Your store with your effort will cost you 765 €.

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However, you should consider that there is still a lot of work to be done: 

These are tasks that you should do and that are not considered in the table for SOMEONE TO SEE !!!!

• Pre-analysis of keywords and selection of the most appropriate ones
• Knowing which niche to target, how to communicate and where to promote
• Websites need a study of links, which link it to other websites and in turn receive backlinks from other quality sites (which have AUTHORITY).
• Prepare the website for the social networks (through tags in the coding)
• Study the internal links between pages
• Place tags (OG: open graph) that are detected by search engines.
• Place structure files (robots.txt, .htaccess, sitemap.xml) that informs what it is about, to whom it is addressed, how often it is renewed, etc.
• Installing code that allows statistical tracking: Installing Google Analytics to track web activity
• They should have promotional campaigns to boost sales on a timely basis.

But how much does a web site made by professionals cost?

This information on web prices and online store prices can be found in our price sections that we offer to our customers for professional services of  [CREACION DE PAGINAS WEBS]  y [CREACIÓN DE TIENDAS ONLINE]

Your professionally made online store costs 849 €.

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So … if you have spent time and effort to learn, implement and position your website, taking it away from your store development, product preparation, etc. and the price is the same or less, what is the point of the lost time/money? Draw your own conclusions.

Comparison of professional websites

Here you will find a price comparison of complete websites.

Comparison of professional online stores

Here you will find a price comparison of online stores.

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