MBA1014 Is a Custom Built Website Worth It?

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Marketing

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

You’re starting a small business. You need a website. But you’re not a website developer.

Welcome to the most common of marketing conundrums. Can you make do with a drag-and-drop DIY website builder, or should you pony up for a fancy custom job? Can you really Do It Yourself effectively? Is the ROI for a designer really there?

It’s a tough call, and the answer will differ depending on what stage of development your business is in.

Today, we discuss when it’s worth it — and when it’s not — to hire a freelance web developer. We’ve gone both routes at different points in our business journey, hacking together our own site in the early phases and paying for something more professional when the time was right. We know what it costs, and we know what it did for our businesses.

Learn what really matters about your business website, and why shelling out too much too early is likely to be counterproductive. Click Play!

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0:00.0	Heyo! Welcome to the $100 R.M. Show the answers you're looking for to build the business you want.
0:15.6	With our daily 10 minute business lessons for the real world, I'm your host, your coach,
0:20.2	your teacher, Omar's in home.
0:22.1	I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete business
0:25.3	training and community online over at 100 MBA.net. And in today's lesson you will learn, is a custom built website worth it?
0:35.0	I get asked this question quite frequently and it's time to answer it.
0:38.0	It's time to explain.
0:41.0	Is building a website for your business from scratch worth the time, the effort, and of course the money.
0:48.0	Should you invest all that so you can have that custom website?
0:53.0	What's involved in what exactly we talk about when we say effort, time and money?
0:57.0	And with technology today and the tools available,
0:59.0	are custom websites really becoming something of the past?
1:02.0	I'm going to get into all that as well as my... websites really becoming something of the past.
1:02.7	I'm going to get into all that as well as my personal recommendation depending on where
1:06.6	your business is when it comes to this topic.
1:10.0	And I know a bit about this because I've built custom websites before. I've had people do it for me.
1:15.1	And I've used tools that would drag and drop and make things easier for me and use that type of
1:20.5	website for my business. Does it make a big difference? Does it affect my
1:24.8	bottom line? I'll share with you what happened and how you can use my experiences
1:29.9	to make a decision for your business. So let's get into it.
1:33.0	Let's get down to business.
1:35.0	Payroll and benefits are hard,
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