Should I Build My Own Website Or Hire A Professional?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2014

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Helen needs a website, but she's not technically savvy, and she wonders if she should try to build it herself or if she should hire a developer to do it for her. Do you have a question about building your website? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Thanks to today's sponsor, 99Designs. Go to http://www.99designs.com/pat to get a Power Pack upgrade for free. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPask.
0:01.0	AskPass.
0:04.0	Ask.com.
0:07.0	Dot com.
0:08.0	AskPass.
0:10.0	com.
0:11.0	Hey, what's up, everybody?
0:12.0	Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 140 or 140, as some of you might say.
0:17.0	We have a great question today from Helen from New Zealand.
0:21.7	But before we get to that, I want to thank today's sponsor, which is 99 designs. Selection, speed, and creativity
0:27.8	are just a few of the benefits of having several designers work on your next design project. You can
0:33.7	start your next project at 99designs.com slash Pat and get a $99 power pack of services
0:40.1	free. It's a service I've used before for several different design things and a lot of people
0:44.9	who have since heard 99 designs on the show have used it to great success as well. So again,
0:49.5	that's 99designs.com slash Pat. Now let's get to today's question from Helen.
0:55.5	Hi Pat. My name's Helen Jameson and I'm calling from New Zealand. My question is,
1:01.9	given I'm definitely no techie, would you recommend building my website myself through something
1:07.5	like Bluehost or should I get a developer to put it together for me?
1:11.8	It's going to be pretty basic at first, a blog and a book to sell and some Amazon affiliate
1:17.0	links. But in terms of building it, I do feel a bit overwhelmed with all the things I could do
1:22.0	wrong. I'm worried if I build it myself, the time and energy I need to put into that could eat me
1:28.5	alive.
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