7 Questions You Must Ask Before You Buy A Website

We hear lots of complaints from business people who have bought a website (from other website designers) only to regret it later. If only they’d known what to ask before they bought!

Here are the 7 questions you should ask any website designer before you order a website. Click on the questions to read our answers:

1. Will your site be built on an flexible platform so you can add features easily and inexpensively later?
2. Can you easily update your own website (words, pictures etc)?
3. Will your site come with SEO so people can find you in the search engines like Google?
4. Will you receive great customer service, even after the site is online? (Or will you receive poor customer service from tech-heads who won’t come to see you in-person or return calls?)
5. Will your website company hold you to ransom, charging like wounded bulls for the simplest changes (and then ask for big $ to release your website so somebody else could host it)?
6. Is your website built on a platform that other developers understand? Or is it some obscure custom platform that locks you in with your developer?
7. Will your site be built with commercial strategy in mind (i.e. easy to find phone number, detailed website statistics, etc)?

Here at SquareEyes our aim is to take the pain out of choosing a website to suit your business needs and budget.

Flexible Platform

Simply choose the features you need now, and later we can add-on whatever you need. Maybe you don’t need a photo gallery now, but it is nice to know you can integrate one into your site later at a reasonable price and with no hassles.

Easily Update Your Website Yourself

Often website designers charge as much as $1000 just to give you the ability to update your own website content. We think this is just silly, like selling a car without a steering wheel. Even our cheapest website options come with a CMS (content management system) so you can easily make changes on the fly.

Great Customer Service

We are here to help you make the right website decision, and to continue to provide great customer service once your website is up and running. If you live in Melbourne we can even come and see you in person to discuss your internet marketing needs. Just call us on 1300 975 224 – it’s that easy.

Get Found On Google

No point having a great website that nobody can find online. Chances are you are going to need at least some basic initial SEO set-up so the search engines can easily find and display your website to your potential customers searching for you online.

You’ll be happy to know we are both SEO experts and Adwords experts too.

About Our Platform

A lot of website companies rave on about their “custom CMS platform” that they have developed. But you know what? They are something you are very likely to regret later. Why? Because later if you want to use a different website developer to make changes to your website, they won’t want to touch it because it is going to be too much hard work to try to learn to use it, or they will have no choice but to charge you by the hour to learn. You don’t want that. Developers charge about $100 an hour.

We use Wordpress, a popular, free, open-source platform with about a squillion dedicated geeks out there who would be happy to help you should we decide to move into the furniture removal game.

The Geeks You Can Trust

Unfortunately there are many cowboys in the website game who are happy to feed you a line to make the sale. We don’t roll that way.

Here are some tips on how not to get ripped off:

More Pages Don’t Cost More Money

Some people will charge you to have extra pages added to your site. We know that this is rubbish and will only charge you to upload extra pages of content, but you are free to add as many pages yourself for no extra dime (and it is really, really easy).

Hosting Should Be Really Cheap

We only charge you $100 a year for hosting, whereas a lot of others charge more, much more.

Then they cloak it all in marketing spin – “Only $29 a month!”. That’s $348 a year for pretty much nothing. Hosting takes little-to-no work on the provider’s behalf.

You Shouldn’t Have To Pay For Little Updates

We often hear of companies charging their clients big bucks just to make simple changes, but if you have a decent CMS (like our sites do) you won’t need to hire anyone just to change the price or put up a new special announcement. The only time you’ll need to hire us is to do the really tricky stuff … unless you just can’t be bothered typing…

You Shouldn’t Have To Pay To Fire Your Website Company

Before you go ahead always ask if there is a charge to release you from your developer so that somebody else can manage your site. We know of some providers who charge up to $500 just to give you the keys to your own site!

A Website That Sells For You

Maybe we are just a bunch of smarty-pants, but seriously, why would anyone think it makes sense to build you a website that makes it really hard to find your phone number or email address? Or even to figure out what your business actually does? Yet we see it all the time.

If you’ve read this far you’ve probably noticed we know how to sell online. Let us do the same for your business too.

Check out our Tasty Website Ordering Menu now!

Or call us for a friendly no-obligation chat about what kind of website you need.

1300 975 224

info@SquareEyes.com.au