Planning To Build A Website

Since you have no clue about what a website can do, how much it will cost or what to expect it is hard to plan much. If you can except that, then jump right in and start your online business.

No, I am not joking. As long as you remember you do not know what you are doing, you should be safe. Just don't over step what you know and don't belive that someone can make your website some million dollar cash cow for $200 is secrect search engine optimization. For every dream there are 10 scammers waiting with a store to fill it.

You can plan all day long, but the truth is that websites can cost from a few dollars to a few million dollars. A sucessful website could require its own server and again that can cost from a few hundred dollars to nearlt one hundred thousand dollars for a single high end machine to well over a million dollars for a grid of servers to manage large databases.

This is a markek of technology and make no mistake, technology is not cheap.

As an example, look at google. A very basic website. Very little content and developed pages in comparison to sites with millions of hand written pages. The content is automated and run by thousands of employees. They use nearly 100,000 servers to manage their website that for most people looks like one plain page with a search box. The company is currently valued at 95 BILLION dollars, yest that is Billion. The highest valued company in the world. Their technology was millions of dollors to build and the number would make the average persons head spin.

Yet there are people looking to build a google type website with budgets of $100 to $1000.00. And they belive that they can. So first, you need to take a reality check and get a grasp on what you can do for $20/month.

If you use pageBuzz, you can do quite alot. Not to toot our own horn, but it is an awesome system. You get all the tools you need to run a shopping website or other type of site for one low price. The only drawback is that you can not run your own programs or edit pages using programs such as FrontPage. But that is not a bad thing if you are new, because you probably don't know how to program anyway.

If you use other people's software, you are stuck with what they wrote or faced with paying the deveopler huge amounts of money to customize the application for you. It is unlikely that you are prepared to pay thousands of dollars to modify programs, so your stuck with what is available cheap. On the upside, there is a load of free stuff available.

If you need something as simple as a shopping cart, pageBuzz is the best option. Having been tested by thousands of users and maintained in one location by us. You can manage thousands of products and sales. However if you plan on having hundreds of thousands of sales, you need to look at alternate solutions.

Of course you could never run a walmart.com for $20/month on standard software. But you need to get started and get started without paying one million dollars for a website.

Even an inexpensive website can produce over a million dollars a year in sales. In most cases there is no need to buy outlandish programs or hire programers to build your website. And if you do, you will be dependant on those people to build modify or manage your website.

We always suggest starting slow, spending your money on advertising and building traffic. If the site does well, they you can always build on it or create a new site with the money you earn. That is just common business sense.

The website is not going to take off as soon as you post a page. So there is no need to plan big from day one. Use a system like pageBuzz, build a cool website and get your feet wet. The value you get from a year of learning will save you loads of wasted money in your growth.

If you need to start big, you need to consult with people that know what they are doing. That means people that have made money doing what you want to do, not someone that thinks they are a profesional webmaster. If they are profesional and have not mademoney in the industry, they don't know how, or else they would.

We enounter these profesionals daily, most do not even have their own website. We have seen some that are hosted on FREE systems with banner ads. If they can not pay $5/month for a website how can you take them seriously?

Lots of people with advice, many charging for it. But how many have sucessful online businesses that have made millions of dollars online. Look to those people for advice and resist the people selling you a dream.

Your website can be a huge business or it can be a huge money pit. With out good information and planning, you will build a money pit. So take it slow and steady.