As a webmaster, on what do you spend the most amount of money? (I am interested in your business expenses, not in your expensive gadgets...) In the last few months, I have spent a good amount of money on getting content for my sites. I guess content is my biggest expense.
$9.50 for domain and $24.50 for one year hosting... zero in advertising... so far the site is now earninng around $5 to $8 per day after my hard work in promotion..
For me the only main expense was hiring a guy to create a stats page for my poker site. It was about $100, i'm 70% happy with it but I think i'm going to have to spend a little more to get it to 100%
Marketing if I say clearly as I use free hosting and I need to pay salary to my team members for marketing my website also (for my only one personal website ever).LOL
Well, I am looking forward to hire someone early next year for my biggest project and my budget is $2k to $3k just for programming and design... I will do the promotion when the program launches..
My biggest expense is paying myself- Boy do I cost alot to keep around- I might just fire myself- outside of that don't really have much expense except hosting and stuff
Time. Hosting is only a few dollars a month. Haven't tried paid advertising yet... so yep, it's gotta be time.
Last year my biggest expense was $120,000 in outsourcing to various people. This year I expect it to hardware costs as we're launching our own web hosting company, we've already spent about $80,000 on the rackservers and datacenter space and we're just getting started.
Attorneys / Designers are our high ticket item, most months its 8k, but it can run into 20k some months, depending on how many companies we are buying or selling within that time frame.