cost of getting a website up and running

[mark ease]

Hello,

I have always wondered what should be the price of have a web business up and ready for the show??

Including, domain name, hosting charges, good opt in page, aweber for the start stage, No technical know how, shopping cart etc etc etc etc.

I have selected my niches, done my keyword research.... only thing stopping me is, I donno know how much to invest??

Please Share some expertise

Mark

[Daniel0604]

Hey Mark,

I'm no expert here but depending on what you want in your web page it shouldn't cost more than about $150-$200. This is if you decide to outsource your page of course. Go to namecheap.com and you can get a domain for 9.95 for the year. You can then go to hostgator.com and get a basic host package for around 7.95 a month. You will also need an ftp which you can find for free, just google filezilla. All of the above should have some getting started videos if you dont know what to do. Also if you want an autoresponder such as aweber or getresponse just visit the page for pricing I believe they start around $17-$19 a month for a certain number of subscribers.

Now in order to build your webpage you will need some html skills or you can outsource. I believe many people on rentacoder.com or elance,com or similar freelance sites will get you a basic opt in page for $50-$100 depending on your needs and it shouldnt take more than a few hours or a day after the bid is accepted.

You can build your own pages using MS frontpage, sitebuilder or homestead (to name a few) without html knowledge, but if you dont know what your doing its easy to make a less than attractive site.

Well I hope this all helps.

Daniel

[Manuel Washington]

Mark it will take 41/mo. to have it all and learn how to market your company.
Manuel Washington
http://bestsearchtools.net
skypeme: physical2006

PS. You pay anymore than that your wasting your money. I have 12 plus years of online marketing and business.

[Jack Harold]

basically other than hosting, domain name and autoresponder, you do not need to spend anything else.

You can even leverage on web2.0 properties and all these becomes free.

[Robert Martinez]

I found that bluehost.com is a pretty great webhosting service. $6.95/mnth but they charge you for the total when you sign up (that was weird to me but seems like most web hostig services dothat). So if tu sign up for a year it will be $100. And the service is fully loaded, auto responders, mailing lists, email account webpage builders the works they have tutorials and a decent customer service (don't expect to get help setting your website though)

If you check out the website they give out access to a dummy account to test it out.

Oh and they waive the domain name fee.

I personally like it but more than anything friend be prepared to spend a lot of time, and don't let your self get frustrated I'm not to great with HTML etc but you start picking up things, eventhough HTML knowledge is not required it will make your life easier if you understand some of it.

[Tom Campbell]

Easy: $20. That covers $10 for the domain name through GoDaddy or NameCheap, and $10 for your first month of hosting using HostGator's Baby Croc option. Don't use a cheaper option because BabyCroc lets you host unlimited (which really means about 30-50 in practice, depending how much traffic they get) sites for that price.

Other reasons to go with HostGator (and no, I don't have any financial interest in this recommendation):


24 hour email support
24 hour phone support
Very busy and well moderated forum
Sensible defaults for the cPanel and Fantastico software install options


Cheers,

Tom Campbell

[Richard Adams]

I normally reckon on around $100-200 or so to set up a basic website like the one you describe. This includes autoresponder, minisite graphics, domain, hosting and so on. You *can* spend significantly more or less if you want, but that's the ballpark that I work on.

All the best,
Richard