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This is a good question in this day and age when almost everybody (from primary school kids to grand parents) is hooked to facebook, twitter, bbm, whatsapp, android and iphones. Social media give businesses the opportunity to create a solid presence online through the creation of business pages on their platforms. Surprisingly, many businesses opt to make their Facebook page or their Google+ business profile their main focus. While solely using social media may seem like a good option, there are several reasons why you shouldn’t rely on it as your only online property. Here are the top reasons why you need a dedicated website for business. Are you worried about the cost? Read this What it costs to build a website.

1. You need control of your main online property. 

While it may seem more convenient to create a Facebook page or Twitter profile, the fact is you don’t really own those properties. Those networks own and control everything you do. If you do anything that violates their policies, you could lose your page or profile, along with all of the content you have created and fans you have built instantly. 

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You probably came here in the process of doing research. Are you a small business looking to build a website, but you don’t want to get taken for a ride? Do you want to know how much a small business website costs to design? We’ve been professionally developing websites of all sizes for over a decade and we love to educate the business (and consumer) market at large about what it takes to build a website and perhaps most importantly…

What it Costs to Build a Website

Or maybe you’re a web developer considering branching out on your own and REALLY want to know what the going rate for website developments costs are. Regardless of who you are, having a baseline to work with is always a good idea. Cyberbuddies is always up front about pricing and we believe everyone needs to be too (although honestly many in the Internet marketing field are not – charging clients different amount based on their situation and income). Before we get to the pricing, I want to ask you… do you think you need a website?

This is important… and let’s just get this out of the way…

you need a website.

Period.

And not just any old website, but a great website with a clear, crisp easy to navigate design, with superb usability and functionality. Furthermore, YOU need to be able to easily update that website.  It doesn’t matter if you are a national corporate brand, a smaller brick and mortar with ‘plenty of business’, a brick and mortar with only local business, or a bead making business that only sells beads to the who is who of Nigeria… you still need a website!

Your business can be broad or niche, it can be large or small, and despite what you may believe… you need a website!

Recently a local furniture company spent nearly a N50 Million Naira!!! renovating their retail space in order to attract new business. But an investment in a great website  and internet marketing plan costs a TINY FRACTION, but brought in MORE BUSINESS!

What Should a Website Cost?

Now, what does a website cost?

Like the businesses they represent, websites are not all created equal and serve various purposes, therefore they can vary greatly in cost as the level of design and functionality increases and becomes more complex to suit your company’s needs. At Cyberbuddies our basic web design fee is N50,000 per week of work. We offer special discounts for partner companies, non-profits, and in select cases partner projects. All of our pricing is based on this weekly web design fee, our overall costs (wages + overhead) and the long-term costs of properly communicating and supporting our clientelle.

CYBERBASIC: Basic Website – N150,000 – N400,000

N150,000 – N400,000 A basic designed website, acts primarily as an online brochure, establishing a necessary presence online to answer your customers’ questions “do you exist?”, “are you professional?” and “what do you do?” A basic website can be done for a mere market average of N150,000. This website will not allow you to interact with your audience (social networking, blog), transact business directly through your site (ecommerce), or enable you to manipulate and update the pages and content within your site without hiring a web programmer/designer to do it for you (Content Management System does enable this for more Naira). A basic website site will serve to help brand and market your company, showcase your products and services and inspire sales as a lead generating tool.  Unfortunately, the design of your website will be templated at such low costs. This means that your site probably mirrors that of other sites on the web.  With our firm, these sites will be CSS and HTML Coded to allow your site to look the same on nearly every computer/device and will be Search Engine Optimized (SEO) for greater natural search engine ranking success. But not all firms code the same and have SEO as a top priority. Also, web analytics are provided with every site we build to track and ensure your web success.

CYBERADVANCED: A Proper Site (update it yourself) – N500,000- N1,200,000

2018 UPDATE – In reviewing the old information (and our old pricing) from back in 2014 (the last time this post was updated), it’s interesting to see where we’ve come. We decided to knock out our “custom website” line item completely from the list because almost all of our sites now-a-days contain an element of custom design. In addition we build ALL of our sites, when we can, with a CMS for clients. Finally, we’ve also started bundling in Content Development i.e. writing services, graphic design video editing, sound production and photography – no more waiting years for project launches due to lack of content. 

Previously our pricing was in the N200,000 - N450,000 – for this line item (previously called Content Management System). We’ve since increased our pricing (although interestingly – not basic website development). We’ve gotten very good at tracking the total money needs of project – throughout the lifetime of our relationship with clients. And this means we have to cover costs for phone calls, the sales process, meeting space, the actual work random content development work here and there (OF COURSE!), and then after launch support. 

Depending on the level of aesthetic design that is requested Content Management System (CMS) websites will run at a market average of N850,000. These websites are created with both functionality and design in mind, as you will receive both custom art design and the ability to manage and update all content, images, and text contained within the pages of your site (infinite number of pages possible). With a CMS capable website, your site will have endless possibilities as a pluggable, flexible web application capable of adding additional features as you desire.

These websites are built with the idea that you will have a significant number of changes, additions or updates to be made to your site in the near future. Instead of being charged hourly rates to make such changes, a CMS system enables you to do a majority of the basic additions without prior coding or web designing knowledge.  Social interactivity with your site visitors is possible with a site of this caliber, as a BLOG will be present within your site enabling you to place posts of content that you believe is relevant and desired by your audience. Your audience can choose to respond to your blog posts and each others comments allowing for 2 dimensional interaction between you, your audience, and within your audience.  Some ecommerce and real estate listing sites can be created within this price range depending upon level of functionality and design.  Also, sites of this caliber have varying prices with regard to design elements. These sites do have custom design work, but more expensive elements like Flash Animation Art creation will affect pricing.  Again, with our firm, these sites will be CSS and XHTML Coded to allow your site to look the same on nearly every computer (Mobile, Tablet and Laptop and Desktop) and will also be Search Engine Optimized (SEO) for greater natural search engine ranking success. But not all firms code the same and have SEO as a top priority. Also, web analytics are provided with every site we build to track and ensure your web success.

CYBEREXEC: Anything Additional/Custom – N1,300,000- N15,000,000

N1,300,000- N15,000,000 If you are looking for advance functionality including social networking, blogging, ecommerce, or any other web application topped off with the markets leading design elements, you should expect to pay a bit more. Actually, just looking at more sophisticated projects you’ll incur a higher fee as there are only a limited number of talented people (and reliable companies) that can do this kind of work – and they typically charge a premium.

Like I said before, some ecommerce and web applications can be created for less, while most successful ventures are created for much more.  Sites that have fallen in this price range include Facebook.com, Orkut.com, and BestBuy.com to name only a few.  A site within this price range may be built and hand coded from scratch – and in all cases will require extreme customization – and coordinating various technologies in order to work with your company or infrastructure.

That means your site is unlike any other and requires the attention and expertise of  experienced web application developers and web site designers. A site that falls into this category requires months of analysis, research, consulting, database design and implementation, software development and integration, site quality assurance and testing.

This is the mother load and it is priced accordingly.  I know what you are thinking, ‘who knew it was so expensive?’ And the only answer I can give is that web design and creation is like any other craft or trade and requires a high level of knowledge and expertise. Furthermore, with the rapid rate that technology and the internet is constantly changing, the gap is beginning to seriously widen between web amateurs and professionals. Can you still get a website for N50,000? Sure you can, but it will not display and operate like a professionally designed website will and it will be as ineffective and unsuccessful as the individual who designed it. I can bet that you wont need to renew your hosting after a year from my experience i.e you abort the idea of having a website

Need more?  Read this.

What Should a Website Cost?

But I can Get it Cheaper Elsewhere

You’re right, and I know a number of our own clients have been able to create great sites at a fraction of the above pricing however, and I can’t stress this enough elements were left out – and future support was non-existent. I can’t tell you how many meetings we’ve been in where company owners have said – our web guy was great, but then he disappeared. I’ve repeated this for the last 5 years. I still have organizations that I’ve talked to over the years, explained this, they agree, but then they use another company to be burned over-and-over again.

Too often us web folks are kind, caring people, who are new to business and associate charging people for work with stealing – so we charge too little (we did it at one point). Unfortunately that creates an eco-system where no one is accountable and – eventually – there’s no one there to pick up the phone or answer an email when shit hits the fan. And believe me, eventually, the shit always hits the fan.

Not to mention there are literally hundreds of tiny steps that you – as the purchaser or client – will never know that need to be done. Making sure analytics code is correctly installed, making sure goal tracking is setup, submitting the site to webmaster tools, etc. and if these aren’t done you are receiving a sub-par product (with potentially sub-par marketing results – learn more about your sites coding and its effect on your organizations overall marketing) and if they are done, even the simplest site will still take many hours to fully setup.

The bottom line is, like in many industries (although let’s face it this isn’t always the case) web design and development is definitely an area where you get what you pay for.

Basic Website Components and Costs

On average, the following figures can be applied to estimating the cost of a small business web site (if you’d like a custom estimate for your website call us at 08037830920 or 08052243964):

If you still need a break down of these costs for a small business website pr what we call CYBERBASIC, check this out

Domain Name – N2000 to N20,000/year (.com, .ng, .com.ng, .tv, .africa etc almost anything is possible these days)

Hosting – N5000 to N15000 a year (depending on traffic & hosting services i.e Linux, Windows etc)

Web planning, design and development time – 60 hours and up (at N2000 per hour) - N120,000 

(Optional) Continued website Maintenance – N75,000 a year and up (depending on number/type of updates required)

(Optional) Marketing your website online – N100,000 a month and up

Important Factors that Contribute to Website Cost

When trying to budget web design costs there are a number of factors to consider:

Is this a brand new site or a redesign?

How prepared are you – do you have a detailed requirements document?

Do you need a blog or content management functionality (CMS)?

Do you have graphics already created for the site?

Do you want the site to automatically resize for mobile and tablets?

Do you need multimedia (Flash, video, etc.) on the site?

How much content do you have and how much do you need created?

Do you need other special features like social media channels, SEO, ecommerce, or something else?

Who is going to maintain the site after it has been launched?

Your comments are welcome

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Cyberbuddies Ltd. is a digital marketing company that helps businesses experience digital marketing with a friendly person who knows how to sell and teaches them through books, courses, and mentorship.

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