The largest, the most heard excuse I hear from the many business owners, real estate agents, mortgage professionals and countless others is that a website is too expensive, it takes too much time and they general believe they lack the knowledge to develop a site.
I pin them to the floor when I explain to them the costs that I incur when I set out to develop my first site and the annual cost that I pay to run a site like this and about 40 others. My costs per year are less than what I pay per month for mine and the Wife’s cell phone bill.
Domain & Hosting
I use Hostmonster*, and I pay roughly $5 to $7 a month. I pay it all up front and so I get a little bit of discount. I like hostmonster, it allows me unlimited bandwidth and domain hosting. It gives you free email accounts, easy one button WordPress installs(plus, other services) ad great support for those that need it.
Godaddy.com for buying my domains,it has way above average support, and it runs specials all the time for even cheaper domain names often in the $7.49 range.
WordPress
Is a free blogging software that Google really loves, it offers tons of free themes. However, this is the biggest expense that I occur and it is often a one time expense. I like the Frugal* theme and that is what this blog is built on. It offers no coding options for color, width, SEO, and many more that other “free” themes do not offer.
I went to bed last with a feeling that this is not a complete list. So, I there will be a 2nd part to all of this.
Dave
* FTC require for me to alert you that I make money when I post an ad or a link