- Improperly vetting your website creator
- Ask for references, not just their website portfolio.
- Call the references and ask what it was like working with the website creator? What were their strengths and weaknesses?
- Insisting your website be built from scratch (this includes requiring unnecessary custom built features.)
- Custom websites make it near impossible for your next website creator to effectively work on your site.
- Limits your flexibility to add features and expand your site.
- Not knowing what you want
- A typical web designer or developer functions as an order taker. You tell them what you want and they make it. If you don’t know what you want and are changing your mind every other day, this will be very costly for you.
- A consultant can help you look at the big picture and map out the customer journey and user experience of your website.
- Insisting on a flat fee or discounted price
- If you want to increase the likelihood your website creator abandons you, holds your site hostage, or at worst, attacks your website, don’t pay them what they are worth.
- If you insist on a flat fee, the website creator is forced to base the estimate on what you tell them you want. A seasoned website creator knows your requirements are going to change, so they might double or triple what they would typically charge.
- Hiring someone from Fiverr.com or the equivalent
- Communication is so essential when building a website, your website creator must be fluent in your language.
- Anyone cheap is not bringing much to the table in terms of business and industry experience. A good web creator is also a consultant, business coach, and a marketer.
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