{"id":36222,"date":"2023-10-20T14:42:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/what-should-i-be-looking-for-when-i-choose-a-web-developer-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:42:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:42:49","slug":"what-should-i-be-looking-for-when-i-choose-a-web-developer-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/what-should-i-be-looking-for-when-i-choose-a-web-developer-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"What should I be looking for when I choose a web developer? – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Before you write a line of code or start deciding what colours to use, I want to give you a little view on how you should approach your website construction if you are just beginning.<\/p>\n

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I noticed with your question that you wanted \u201cgreat design, eCommerce, a blog and wanted to sink quite a bit of your budget into your site\u2019s construction\u201d.<\/p>\n

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This concerns me and flies against how I roll. I have built quite a few online sites for myself that make money online and I strongly suggest you focus on my number one rule of online business before anything else: Make $1 of profit from your website before you invest further.<\/p>\n

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So, after you have paid your developers, paid your hosting, domain and marketing costs, paid the tax, paid the accountants and any other contractors, you have profited by $1 and you can put that in your wallet.<\/p>\n

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I prefer to start small with an investment in a website or online business and then build it up. Upgrade it and reinvest in it when it grows.<\/p>\n

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To start with, given you are building an eCommerce site I suggest you get a basic shopping card site up with your top 10 products and try and make a sale.<\/p>\n

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Make $1. Your goal here is to build a quick and dirty site that makes you money, making money is all that really matters, the rest we can just leave to the web designers who like awards and the technologists that like coding stuff just to see if it will work.<\/p>\n

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When we built our home loan<\/a> site we just slapped up a few articles and just tried to see if we could get a developer to apply through our site.<\/p>\n

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To build a basic site, the answer of what developer to choose is quite easy. You just need a technical guy that could piece together some off-the-shelf software like Drupal\u2019s free eCommerce software<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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You don\u2019t want them to charge too much, so it\u2019s probably best if they work from home and give you a fixed price quote.<\/p>\n

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If they have examples of other small shopping cart sites that they have done the past that would be superb.<\/p>\n

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Most of your money should be spent on the marketing, not the website construction. Building a site that can get up quickly is important, but it\u2019s more important to focus on how you are actually going to get the visitors to your site.<\/p>\n

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Doing the opposite would be like organising the most amazing party in the world and not sending out any invitations. A great party, but no one sees it.<\/p>\n

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Turn your focus more on how you are going to market your site at the beginning to get that first $1 and get feedback on what works and what doesn\u2019t. Key things to do:<\/p>\n

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