Nowadays many people deal with Internet business. Some use World Wide Web as an additional marketing channel to engage their target audience. For others – domain and hosting resellers, web-designers, social media marketers, etc. – all the Web is actually the primary target market.
Whatever your business is, you need your own website to run the desired project. If you are just starting out, you may get easily trapped by big expenses and the choice of costly and sometimes unnecessary solutions.
Here are some tips to help you build your own site without a risk of money waste:
Free domain name – the domain name is much needed for a business site – it should be catching and easy-to-spell. But who said you should pay for that? Many hosting providers offer free domains along with their hosting packages, so you should search for one, which does. Usually those domains are provided free-for-life, which means, that you’ll keep using this domain for no fee for as long as you stay with your host.
Cheap hosting – in the world of hosting the word “cheap” does not stand for “low-grade”. Modern technologies allow hosts to have hundreds of clients on one server and provide great services. Of course, there are many limitations on such so-called shared servers, but if you are only starting it may very well server all your needs. Once you feel your business needs a step-up – you will be always able to upgrade to a bigger plan or to your own powerful server.
Promos and discounts – constant updates and competitive spirit of hosting companies makes them constantly release new promotions and discounts. If you are lucky, you may come around a 30%, 50% and sometimes even 75% discount. But even if you get a 15-20% discount – the most usual rate – you may consider you’ve got a couple of months of free hosting.
Scripts-installers and sitebuilders – if you have never dealt with website building, it’s not really advisable to start training while creating your business page. On the other hand, no one says you should hire a webdeveloper. Many hosting providers provide script-installing and site-building tools, which let anyone create a simple but nice and professionally looking web-site with the help of couple of clicks.
Feedback – if you have just launched your business website, make sure your “Contact Us” page has only your current telephone number and a shared email address (e.g. info@mycompany.com). As you are only starting, you shouldn’t expect too many calls and emails to arrive, so you’ll be able to cope with them on your own, without involving additional staff.
Those tips should not be taken for a universal cure, as some projects may need a hi-end, top solution, which cannot be cheap or free. However, if any of those helps you make sure your online business is granted a smooth and affordable start.
About the Author: Arkadij Shkolnik is the PR director for SiteValley.com. SiteValley.com is a reliable Cheap Web Hosting provider that can help you meet your online business challenges. They exist to provide the highest levels of quality and service in the highly specialized area of Internet hosting and deliver value and performance to our customers.
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Hi Arkadij,
Nice article for people that want to get something up on the web cheap. A lot of times people do not move forward with a website because they think it will be expensive and complicated.
I like what you said about up-grading when you have the traffic to justify the expense.
Always good it do things a cheaply as you can especially in this economy.
Rob
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This is a great article. I have been working on some wire frames for a couple new sites and was wondering how i could cut my costs a but. Thanks.
Hey Rob,
You really are right about that point:
> A lot of times people do not move forward with a website because they think it will be expensive and complicated.
Many people are really unsure about starting their own website and not all of them know about money-back guarantees, supported by hosts and are afraid of losing their money.
Additionally, some people don’t trust promos as they think, that if there’s a discount on a sing-up, there will necessarily be hidden fees during the further use of service.
As a hosting provider, we have a blog, where all the latest promos are being announced. It makes things for our potential clients easier with both finding the discount and proving it to be transparent. Thus, anyone, who visits svhostingblog.com gets a clear picture of what we are offering.
Thank you Brian, if you deal with website development or are interested in web-site building/administration software, have a look at our blog, you may find some more useful articles there.
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as a owner of e-commerce site this was a very informative
The problem with auto-site builders is that people need to know how to customize their site in order to make it unique.
I think the best way to make a website with minimal expenses is to learn how to code yourself
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Thanks, Fabian.
Being an e-commerce website owner, you may find interesting a couple of articles on our corporate blog – svhostingblog.com. One is a review of open-source shopping carts, the second one is dedicated to the installation of CubeCart.
Cheers to Email Marketing Blog reps!
Whatever funny it may sound, but real cost cutting on website development is having knowledge in coding. You are totally right about that, because whatever rich the sitebuilders may be in templates, they won’t let you build a completely unique website.
The other thing is that some tools allow to customize built sites through a web interface, rather than through lines and lines of code in a notepad
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