Invest in a Website Template or Website Designer?

Here is how to know if you should buy a DIY website template or invest in hiring a website designer.

Maybe you’ve seen templates provided on WordPress or Wix and thought, “This looks great, sounds super simple and affordable!”

You think to yourself, “I’ll have it up and running in no time!”

But soon enough you realize that there are complexities to building a website that you hadn’t thought about and that wasn't mentioned when you read the website template’s sales copy.

Maybe you’ve run into these problems:

- Hosting sites such as go-daddy and Hostgator have you on hold for hours as you try to figure out how to connect your domain to your site.

- You thought you'd be on the first page of Google, yet your site doesn’t appear until page 87. Or worse, page 870.

- Turns out the theme you paid for doesn’t let you integrate a feature that you need to use to set up your business online and you keep running into walls because you don’t know how to write custom code and don’t have time to learn how.

- It’s ugly. And you don’t know how to fix it.

- You thought you’d be able to set this up in a day, or maybe a week, but it’s taken ten times as long as you imagined, and even then you’re not thrilled with how it came out.

- And most common, maybe your site has been up for a year, maybe more, yet it has never generated enough sales to pay for itself. Maybe none.

Building a site takes time, education, and an annual investment, not including what you’ll pay a designer to help you set it up.

AND, if you invest in someone who is focused on helping you make sure the site helps you close more sales, building your site will likely PAY FOR ITSELF.

Shoot me a DM or visit thekreativekind.com to learn more about how we can elevate your website.

(In this post: custom wireframe proposals and website design for @rosalie.hochstetter)