The true cost of DIY websites

Time is money for a small-business owner. When you build a website yourself, you have the best intentions, but you're taking time away from other key projects in your business. A website with the features and quality that Simple Steps provides will take an an average user an estimated 45-80 hours. Those hours can translate into huge dollars. Let a professional build your website and save you money!

Let’s say you bill clients $60/hour. And you’re fairly tech savvy, so you are open to the idea of building a website yourself. The fact is, if you don’t have a lot of experience with web development or search engine optimization, it might take you some time to learn the skills to build the website that meets your needs.

Here are a few things that you will spend time on:

  • (2 hours) Transferring your domain.

  • (1 hour) Signing up for your new drag-and-drop web builder and setting up your account and getting the hang of the tool

  • (1 hour) Finding a good theme and entering basic information about your business.

  • (16 hours) Building all your pages and writing the content.

  • (4 hours) Finding the perfect pictures for your website.

  • (8 hours) Tweaking the styles and design of your pages to give your page a custom look.

  • (8 hours) Perfecting your SEO strategy.

  • (4 hours) Testing your site on different browsers and devices to ensure everything functions as it should.

  • (4 hours) Installing analytics and google tag manager.

  • (1 hour) Setting up your blog and connecting it to your social media page.

That’s a total of 49 hours you will spend creating a basic website. That’s time you could have spent billing clients $2,940

Is your DIY website worth $2,940?

If you choose Simple steps web development, we do all that and more in our Simple Website package which is listed for $1,800, and currently with 30% OFF will cost only $1,260.

Choosing Simple Steps Web Development saves you $1,680!


Use the calculator below to see how much a website built by Simple Steps Web Development could save you!

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