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Standard Web Design:
If you are a business owner I would like to appeal to you to
read this page of considerations that will prove helpful in making
a good business decision as to which company should handle your
web design and internet marketing. If you think you know
what you are looking for and simply want to "compare rates" ---
feel free to CLICK HERE and skip
this page. However, the few minutes of your valuable time
that it will take to look over this information may SAVE YOU
HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS and SAVE YOU A LOT OF WASTED TIME.
Thank you in advance for your time.
This particular page is written by the founder of AppNet.
Like you, I am a business owner. When it comes time for me to
choose a provider of services, most often I don't have a lot of
time and I attempt to choose a company that will give me "The Most
Bang For My Buck." In many types of business that will prove
successful. However, the internet web design business has
proven to be one in which is like no other. Consider this
for a second.
I'll bet you that YOU know someone that you consider to be a
"computer guru"...someone who "knows everything about this stuff".
I'll bet that person can design you a website and may even do it
for FREE. Heck my own eleven year old daughter can design a
web page and my 72 year old father operates a HUGE 100+ page
website of his own. This stuff isn't rocket science. In
fact, just about every school-aged child is now getting some
education on how to create PowerPoint and HTML web pages. THAT IS
PART OF THE PROBLEM.
The market is flooded with people who "know how" to build a web
page, but who have no idea of what makes for a successful website.
There are many people who know HOW to use PhotoShop, Illustrator
or DreamWeaver...but they lack the artistic and business acumen to
make YOUR website productive.
"Just because I know how to use a hammer,
doesn't mean that I can build a house!"
I'll never forget when ten years ago we made our first contact
with a business about building our first website. The lady I
spoke with told me, "I have spoken with a couple of people who
told me that they could build me a website so that when people did a
search for 'widgets' my website would come up."
Obviously it doesn't work that way. The computer industry is
flooded with people with the know-how, but not the knowledge.
Another horror story related to me was one in which simply because
a business owner had no clue about computers...he was taken
advantage of by an unscrupulous "computer expert" who routinely
charged him $200 to keep his computer running in tip top shape. I
happened to be talking with this gentleman a few months into this
"valuable service" and came to find out that all the tech was
doing was deleting his TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES. That's something
that you can do for yourself in FIVE MINUTES!
In our ten years of building websites we have heard it all;
however an all too familiar story is one in which business owners
mistakenly "allowed" a friend or novice to build their
website...only to find out that the website just didn't "go
anywhere". There are many people who will build your website
at HALF what others may charge. However, ask yourself this
question:
Am I willing to pay "X Dollars" for a website
that simply never gets the traffic and production that I want? ...
or should I be looking for companies with proven results, and
possibly pay a slightly higher rate but get a website that
literally pays for itself within a couple of months?
I can give you examples of people who paid $500 to
three different "designers" and never got any productivity out of
their websites. Their last website cost them $800 and now
they are selling their wares successfully on the internet.
They WASTED $500 three times before spending only $300 more with
the right company. They BLEW $1500 to save $300.
I can also relate numerous examples of people who paid other firms
considerably more than we would have charged them and STILL their
websites didn't work.We've been in the advertising and
marketing business since 1974 and we began exclusively doing web
design and search engine marketing in 1996.
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO HAVE A WEBSITE?
1. You need a DOMAIN NAME. This is your web address (www.whatever.com).
We recommend that you have us (or the web design company of
your choice) register your name for you. Yes, you can do
it...but we can SAVE YOU MONEY and handle the DNS
(technical) setup to "point the name" to whatever website we
design for you. Additionally, too many people FORGET about
this once a year invoice and can potentially lose their
name. Having us handle it makes sense - we will register it
in your name and set it up on our servers.
Initial Setup: $25.00
Cost: $25.00 per year
2. Someone must build your site.
CLICK HERE FOR OUR RATES
3. Hosting. Someone must host your domain name and
data to display the website so that whoever types in your
address or finds your link in the search engines will see
the website.
Hosting Fee: $25 per month and includes FREE URCHIN STATS
and 10 Email Addresses
4. Search Engine Optimization. We will code and
submit your site to all of the search engines. We provide
this service FREE with all of our design and hosting
options.
Click here to see more
information on this important issue.
Spend 15 minutes speaking with us and we GUARANTEE you will agree
that we can make a productive difference in your internet
marketing.
Contact Us. We invite you to call us (collect if
you prefer) at 828-963-7286 for a FREE QUOTE and
conversation about how we can serve your internet needs.
You may also use our quick
Online Contact Request Form,
email us, or call our
Toll Free VOICE MAIL at 800-783-3293 and leave a message. We
promise to only answer you with the facts that you need to get you
where you want to be. No pressure, no sales pitch.
Discover the AppNet difference!
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