Many people are able to create products, ebooks, services, reports etc. But, many more are unable to create the website needed to effectively promote their product and get others on board to help them promote it. What is needed is a membership website that allows you to sell your product and then make that buyer an instant affiliate so that they can turn around and help you sell your product for a percentage. So my question is this, if you have a product you know will sell well, but lack the time and knowledge to set up a great looking site that will manage your membership of affiliates/buyers. Would you pay to have that website put together for you? Only thing you would have to produce is the product that would be adding into the program. If so, how much would you be willing to pay? Keep in mind the basic costs due to the script being $300, design being $150 to $300, $100 to $200 for ad copy, and cost of install/setting up labor. So it couldn't be less than $1,500. Your thoughts?
I would not pay anything near $1500. However if you can't create the site you will have to pay someone to do it.
John, I think $1,500 is a little steep for a webmaster audience. At least webmasters who know how to get websites, scripts and content inexpensively. But I think if you targeted self-published print book authors, you could easily charge $1,500 for a package like this. Many authors aren't technically inclined and need that type of handholding. Good luck!
$1,500 would ne normal several years ago but these days designers and programmers are just too inexpensive to pay that much. For $1500 anyone could have a very nice website designed and some custom scripting to back it up. Unless you are the best of the best you won't find any customers at those prices.
If you make a small site then it shouldn't cost that much, but if it's rather a large site and is designed very well then $1,500 is cheap in my books. I know some web designers over in the UK where charger around £30 GBP per hour for web designing and scripting back about 7 years ago. Well expensive that is I think. The person that was paying it was an internet company I was with. It cost them thousands and they couldn't pay it when it come to having to pay it. For a rather small site, it cost them well over £20,000 and took around 3 months or so to build.
There's already membership site scripts (someone was sold for several hundreds) so I'd probably skip $1500 offer.
Here's the thing, it's the whole package, the script it would take to run this site is $300 alone. I expect a lot of you to say no because you do this as a hobby. This is geared towards people who want to build a business and know that in order to really make some money they need to spend some money to make some money. Here is the latest site of my own that I made, and it cost me roughty $600 to put together myself, because I went the cheap route, and did it myself learning what I needed to know. http://www.listmastersecrets.com If I had just outsourced it, I would have been in profit 3 weeks ago. This post was just so I could see who I am dealing with here, it appears that the majority here are hobbyist.
John Guanzon, I think my post is one of the only ones that agree that it is reasonable and $1,500 is rather cheap for a big site. I'm a programmer and designer, but I would never do it for others. If I designed a site, I wouldn't be able to give it to them as I would want it. lol. I would never sit down and do a site for someone for under $1,000. Just sitting down, asking someone what they want, having to edit things, etc. It just is to much work and hassle for only $300. Just my thoughts, something that others have to realise is that if you get a script or site designed then it is likely to cost much more than what a ready made script on the web will cost. The reason for this is because the coder/designer has to make it to your needs, while the of the shelve scripts on the web are already made, so you have to do the customization and also don't forget that if they are $49.99 for the ready made script, then the coder/designer is not just getting 1 $49.99, they are getting that from hundreds of people purchasing the script, which could in turn make them over $20,000 just for doing one script/site.
John, not a lot of people would pay anything near $1500. The thing is you can't say "the script is worth..." for ONE SIMPLE REASON: - Nobody is going to believe that you will give them full rights to the total package You are providing a service so it's not realistic to expect each client to pay off the total cost of development/testing/installing your system when you intend to implement that same system several times... Not only that, people who have the skills to create great products can usually create the sites to sell them... or at least outsource much of it. I'd say up to $300 might work, and even then you should consider a "basic" package for $97. Seriously. Most people will be really excited about creating something but still not skilled or motivated enough to see it through 100% (I'm guilty of this myself) so they will be happy to pay a reasonable fee (say $100 or so) to have a sales letter, affiliate page, etc. made up... because they're still excited about the idea of making money. These people probably won't spend much more because they can't be 100% sure their product will be a success and that's why you need to break up your service into smaller chunks. First hook them on the cheap buy-in, around $100... basic service. Then keep sending them emails and try to up-sell, bit by bit. You will probably have more success this way. I think so anyway.