As I’ve inferred, I know because I’ve “been there…done that”. In the early days of starting a small, home-based business I came to the conclusion that in order to get it off the ground in today’s internet world, I needed a website. I had no idea what I was getting into. I spent literally hundreds of hours plowing through the process, and learned much useful information on the way. I also spent a lot more money than I needed to in order to get my website up and running. I experienced the costly pitfalls associated with not having a clue what I was doing. I learned what I should and shouldn’t have done, and where I could have saved hundreds of dollars along the way.

To this day, I wish I had found someone knowledgeable who could have helped me through the process. If I had, I would now have considerably more in my bank account than I do!

And I know that there are thousands of people who NOW are where I was THEN…on the brink of trying to start such an enormous and cumbersome task without understanding just what they are getting into!

So I decided to put my experience at your disposal, and help you through the process so that you don’t have to run the risk of going out of business just letting the world know you exist!

The WebWumper (that’s me!) can cut through all of that, saving you HUNDREDS of dollars in costs related to just setting up your domain and hosting! (In fact for a limited time, you can spend as little as $95 to have your website up and running in just days! Check out the sale on our SHOP page.)

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“A website is the necessary means of doing business in today’s world. Your website gives you credibility and instills an aura of stability in you and your service, generating confidence in potential customers—a commodity that will increase your sales and elevate you in the eyes of those from whom you want to draw business.”

Plus, these days it is crucial to make sure your website is “mobile-friendly”. Joe Ardeeser of Jordan Crown Web Design comments:

“We now know that smartphone users are rivaling desktop users in many reports. There are more mobile buyers than desktop buyers. As a result, a huge amount of the market will be left with a website that’s hard to use on a smartphone because it requires zooming in and panning. If the competitor’s website is easily accessible and their product works, a customer will choose them. Again, there are hidden costs here: a business will lose money because their page isn’t mobile-friendly.”

Many well-intentioned folks sign up with the plethora of online stores and “DIY websites” that have flooded the market to take advantage of people like me when I started my business. I read the testimonials of those who had made piles of cash and now lived the good life. I dreamed of being one of those glowing testimonials someday.

However, I soon found the pitfalls of such sites. First of all, I was buried among millions of other like-minded wanna-be entrepreneurs. I was literally lost in a sea of anonymity. It was like trying to find the proverbial needle in a haystack. The chances of anyone ever finding me with a simple search were astronomically against me, and I had trouble myself just finding my own products on their websites!

Add to that the fact that they charged me monthly for their services, constantly offering me costly “upgrades” that would supposedly make my products more visible to consumers, and charging me comparatively costly commissions for handling and selling my merchandise in the event that product was sold.

At one point, I bit the bullet and “leased” space in their online store program, which gave me the benefit of collecting my products on one page (previously scattered throughout the thousands of like products on their website). And to save money I could sign up for a year, which would cost me less than the monthly plan!

I was throwing bad money after bad. 

I may as well have been sitting in the middle of the desert far from civilization selling sand. 

I never received so much as a single inquiry.

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Since having my own website, I am easily found and contacted by potential and now-active clients. This would never have been the case if I had stuck with the above model and venue of business operation. It was a completely unproductive approach for me. I spent far more than I would have if I’d just gone ahead and hired a webmaster at the beginning.

So, the bottom line is: setting up your own actual website with product and informational pages that are mobile-friendly is crucial in today’s market place, and an area where you can save lots of time and money, both of which you can use more wisely investing in your business and family.

Now, most decent web designers and webmasters start at a flat-rate charge of about $75 per hour, and go up from there! And if you only need a tweak or two that doesn’t take up an hour, you get the $75 charge anyway.

I charge $25 per hour for website development and maintenance, and that cost is broken down incrementally by the minute. If I spend 9 minutes updating your website, you pay me for 9 minutes of work (which would be $3.75)— no base fees, no hidden fees, etc. As I always say, I’m not out to make a killing, just a living, and a modest one at that.

So, do you need a website? 

The answer is, you’d have no idea of the services I have to offer if I didn’t have the website you’re looking at right now.

You are practically invisible in today’s world without one. It’s the way people discover you, and how they get to know and trust you in this universe of hyper-space. Your website is where customers can find you when they’ve lost your business card or pamphlet, by just doing a simple search for you on the internet. And it’s a way for them to get in touch with you or view your merchandise 24 hours a day.

It’s like having a brick-and-mortar store where people on the information highway actually pass by daily!