What Are Some of the Biggest Reasons That You Haven't Commissioned Someone to Build Your Website?

I do my own web site. It gives me a place to practice wat I am learning.

Unfortunately Money - we are a NOT for profit - no one gets paid - so money is not easy to come by and what does goes to supplies

Website designers design sites in a vacuum. They dont take into account the human thought process. They dont optimize for eye patterns. That is why we have to train every single website designer we hire. In over 10 years in business, I have not one met one single website designer that even remotely "gets it". "It" being a vastly complicated formula where the website is designed from the ground up to be visible to search engines (keyword research performed by somebody very intelligent) and built for conversions (optimized for the visitor's thought process and eye patterns, not to win a design award).

I build and sell websites myself. You can have the best and prettiest looking website in the world, if it does not get traffic and generate leads for your business, it's useless. You must do Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and website marketing.

http://mobilemanmarketing.repcovers.com/l/MzYyMw==

Because I learned how to build my own as well as SEO. (takes more work than most people think)

(it's an ONGOING process of continuously updating your back end to maintain security and improve the user experience, as well as constantly blogging to gain organic traffic. )

Fellow web designers I can't stress enough how much you have to educate your potential customers how much maintenance is needed. Especially if they want to rank well with SEO.

Dear Mr. Johnson,

(1) In answer to your research question the primary reason I have not commissioned anyone to build my business website is because I have yet to find a website designer who can integrate my website with my social media sites and be paid on a "performance basis" for the work completed.

(1.1) What that means is as follows:

- the only measure of success with respect to web design from an entrepreneur's standpoint is whether or not a client upon seeing the entrepreneurs custom designed website and/or social media site contacts the entrepreneur and purchases a good or service

- what most web designers do not consider is that a potential customer merely "window shopping" will likely increase the entrepreneur's business website's SEO scores but not necessarily guarantee that the potential customer will make a purchase of a good or service

- the concern from the web designer's perspective is what happens if the entrepreneur is new and has difficulty converting the sales calls generated by the upgrade website and social media site into a sale, and/or whether or not the entrepreneur will report all the sales to the web designer

- to that question there can only be one choice and that is for the website designer and entrepreneur to come to an agreement up front for a sliding scale charge, more per hour billed and paid today and less tomorrow complete with a mechanism to include an audit of the entrepreneur's bank accounts to confirm funds received

- so when you find a website designer that is so confident in their abilities that they can handle a performance based contract please have that designer contact me because I wish to have that website designer handle everything including the sales of advertising on my website and social media sites because my strength is in accounting/bookkeeping not in website design

- the website designer will need to be amazing because I am not interested in paying for Google Ad words or any other advertising to promote my business website and business social media sites

- the advantage to a website designer under this arrangement is that the designer takes on the role of the online marketing position for my business and over the long haul will earn more money than that website designer can make on a single short term contract

- Example: many heating and cooling companies prefer maintenance contracts versus one time installations because they can bill more and provide more services over the long haul versus someone who does a single job in year one and upon payment must find another client, second they do not need to spend extra time learning about the client's business because they have already been there

- many professionals work on that basis as well, dentists, family doctors, chiropractors to name but a few

- everyone knows that websites and social media sites will be constantly changing for decades, the issue is whether or not the website designer wishes to keep chasing thousands of new clients or have much fewer regular clients where they are constantly doing work for them and getting paid every month based on the new sales being generated by their fewer regular clients

- to be crystal clear on the matter website designers who get paid up front for their work are available everywhere with fees ranging from a few hundred dollars to in excess of $15,000, most do amazing work, but the entrepreneur does not make money from having the highest ranking website on the internet, which happens to be www.google.com but rather on the sales of goods and services that their website and social media sites generate

- I do not believe there is any correlation between the coolest looking website and money that the owner of that website earns

Example: from Forbes Global 2000 public companies - Top 25

I doubt any of these companies have really flashy websites, but they sure do make a ton of bucks.

https://www.forbes.com/pictures/edjl45efeik/the-wo...

(2) I trust this answers your research question.

(3) If you wish to know more about why a bookkeeper would be selling advertising space on his website I have provided my contact details below.

Sincerely,

David A. Smith,

Cos

Most of my business to-date has been via word of mouth or through various online coach directories where I am listed. My website has generated very little activity, even with paying for Google SSO and marketing services. Since my business is part time right now, it made more sense for me to do what I could on my own, as cost is a factor. I used Weebly to build my site, and it was free until I hosted my page and that cost is minimal. As mentioned by others, trust is also a factor, as well as wanting to have the knowledge myself to maintain it. If someone where to go away, or, if I decided I could no longer afford them, I wouldn't want to be put in a bind, not knowing how to maintain my site.

My son is in his last year in the university. He built an e-commerce website www.goodluckrugs.com for me, which I am quite happy with. He is not a professional. I wish I could find somebody who can fine tune it.

Well. I will be blunt and may annoy lots of people, but let me say there is an elephant in the room.

(1) The foremost reason: Cost.

Many businesses go to fiverr or upwork and get their websites for few hundred bucks. They essentially get trash. I believe some one on the thread mentioned that pricing is skewed all over the place by people who have a laptop. And no matter what you do your website will not generate any business.

Many businesses also believe and expect that their website designer should do everything - design - copy writing, branding, images, social media and SEO. They are different animals - all of them require different skill set. If some one promises to do all of that by themselves they are BSing.

2. They are control freak - they think very highly of their abilities. They are not open to suggestions and with many DIY builder they can do that. With little bit of creativity and time one can do everything on their own.

3. Most businesses underestimate the value of an attractive website with coherent engaging message that will make visitor make that call. A Website may or may not generate business, but an ugly website will definitely cost you business. And the funny thing is you will never know that it has happened.

4. Most businesses forget that no matter what their business is 90% of what they do is same as their competition. They have no idea how to use that remaining 10% to have a better value proposition on their website.

5. Many have commissioned people to build their websites and those contractors have turned around hired people for fiverr and Upwork and sold them trash. Many businesses have been burned.

6. And finally, many small businesses I have dealt with are stingy as hell. It might be easier to peel off their skin than take a $1 from their pocket.