If your business doesn’t have a website, now is the right time to invest in one. It’ll help you effectively serve your customers’ needs and attract more potential clients. 

However, this project can be costly if you don’t know the hacks around it. Here are some practical tips and tricks to cut expenses while building a professional website:

• Use a website builder

How you choose to build a website has a significant impact on your budget. The four main options you can select from include:

• A website builder
• Content management software (CMS), mainly WordPress
• A programming language, such as HTML and JavaScript
• Hiring the services of a professional website designer

If you employ them strategically, these four options will achieve desired results. But if the budget is your main concern, then a website builder is the best choice. It’s one of the most effective ways to save money. A website builder, which is a tool for creating websites without coding skills, offers pre-designed templates and a drag-and-drop interface that makes it easy to customize and add content to your site.

While hiring a professional may result in a more custom and unique design, it’s the costliest option. You could spend up to USD$10,000 on the services of an expert web designer.

On the other hand, a website builder may cost just USD$6 per month, and it comes with a range of optimized templates. Using WordPress may increase that monthly charge to around USD$50. 

In addition to their cost-effectiveness and ease of use, website builders offer a variety of features and integrations. Many have SEO tools, e-commerce functionality, and integrations with popular services like Google Analytics and social media platforms. These features can help you increase your website’s visibility and reach a wider audience.

• Look for coupons and promo codes

Another money-saving trick when creating a website is to find relevant coupons and promo codes. Many hosting providers, website builders, and other website-related product dealers offer discounts occasionally. 

But how can you enjoy these offers? You can start by doing a quick online search for web development products. It’ll help you find sites specializing in advertising coupons and promo codes related to various cyber tools. 

Often, companies will send out exclusive discounts to their subscribers, which can be a great way to save money. So, the best way to take advantage of these deals is to sign up for your favorite brand’s email newsletters. 

Once you’ve found a coupon or promo code that you want to use, make sure to go over the terms and conditions. Some coupons may only be valid for a limited time or designed only for new customers. Others are suitable for specific products or services, so ensure your voucher is relevant to what you’re buying.

When using the coupon, simply enter the code at checkout. The discount should be applied to your total, reducing the amount you have to pay. Double-check the final price to see if the deal was successful before completing your purchase. 

• Use free or low-cost stock photos

Professional photography is expensive. Plus, downloading some stock photos without paying for them can put you in legal trouble. 

Fortunately, many websites offer free or low-cost stock photos. Most of them are high-quality and will still enhance your site’s graphics. But it’s still important to read the usage rights before using any of them just to be on the safer side.

• Use a budget-friendly hosting provider

Web hosting services can be pretty costly, depending on your chosen provider. The good thing is there are many options to choose from in the market; you just need to know what to consider.

The first factor to remember is your business needs, including storage space, bandwidth, and uptime. You can find your ideal provider by consulting your friends or searching the web and social media. 

Once you have a list of providers that fit your needs, research each candidate for a cost-effective one. Consider competitive pricing and value for the services you want. 

Remember that the cheapest option may not always be the best, as it may come with limitations or poor service quality. It could be expensive in the long term. 

You can also opt for a shared hosting plan. It’s always cheaper than dedicated hosting plans, as the cost is shared among several clients. However, it has limitations in terms of storage and bandwidth. Hence, it’s ideal for small websites or those just starting.

• Use cost-effective marketing strategies

Of course, digital marketing is among the most critical aspects of website creation. You need to advertise your brand and site to a potential audience to increase its online visibility. It can be expensive, especially for start-ups.

Fortunately, there are ways to cut costs until your business starts raking in profits. First, you can leverage the power of social media. Actively interact with your prospects on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or other relevant platforms. Post regular updates and links to your site on your business’s social media accounts.

Alternatively, you can hire influencers. But find those willing to work within your budget to avoid unnecessary financial issues. Their job will be to push relevant hashtags and convince their followers to visit your website. 

Conclusion

Creating a website is excellent for any brand in today’s business environment. It builds your business presence but can also be expensive if you’re not careful. 

You may want to try a few budget-friendly tactics to offset related expenses. Start by using a website builder instead of hiring a professional website developer. Cost-effective stock photos, marketing strategies, and hosting providers may be ideal as well.

But coupons and promo codes are the best way to cut costs. Find websites that specialize in posting available offers or subscribe to your favorite brands’ newsletters. 

Crafted with updated secure codes, clean elegant design it have various options like slider, featured content, hero content, what we do, promotion headline, portfolio, skills, team, testimonials, featured news, contact form, associate logo and so on.

The theme is WPML compatible and responsive, which means you can translate your website to any language you want and fits on any screen size. Top of all, it comes with several predefined demos which will surely gives you idea to create your ideal website by utilizing all the features available in theme.

Features of Versatile Business Pro

Associate Logo

Sortable Sections > Associate Logo
Associate logo option displays the brands that you are associated with in a form of beautiful slider. Here you can customize you slider like loop mode, navigation pagination, layout , numbers. You can choose page, post, category, tags and customs as content type. It also have color option for various sections

Contact Form

Sortable Sections > Contact Form
Contact form option is a great way for customer to contact you. Choose your content type, add title, subtitle for your Contact form. It also have color options for various section.

Hero Content

Sortable Sections > Hero content
Versatile Business Pro supports Page/Post/Category/ Tags and Custom as hero content. You can add your finest content to highlight as hero content which will grab attention of your visitors.

Featured Content

Sortable Sections > Featured Content
You can add your latest products, latest launches, posts about your products or services in featured content section. You can add page, post, category, tags or custom as featured content. It is a great option to highlight your latest updates to your audience. It have other customizable section such as colors, button text, button link, layouts, title, subtitle sections too.

Promotion Headline

Sortable Sections > Promotion Headline
Versatile Business Pro allows you to add Promotion Headline, here you can highlight the feature of you firm. You can select the content type to display in the section—post, page, category, tag or custom that you want your audience to see.

Portfolio

Sortable Sections > Portfolio
Portfolio section where you display your experience and achievements to your audience. You can choose content type as post, page, category, tag or custom as portfolio, further option to change section top sub-title, section title, section subtitle, layout, numbers of portfolio and colors for different sections as per your requirements.

Skills

Sortable Section > Skills
Skills is one of the great option to display your professional expertise, here you can add skill in percentage and edit colors to make this section to be more attractive. Let your customers knows about your abilities and expertise level on various skills.

Team

Sortable Sections > Team
Our theme supports team section, which allow you to display your team members in an informative manner. Here you can add social links of each of your team members, change colors for different sections to make it more attractive, you can choose content type as post, page, category, tag or custom.

Testimonials

Sortable Sections => Testimonials
Testimonials section helps your audiance to know what your goods and services are like. You can add customers testimonials to grow trust among you customers. Select content type as page, post, category, tags or custom as testimonial. There are other cutomizable options such as Carousel slider, layout, number, colors for various sections

What we do

Sortable Sections > What we do
Another very important feature by this theme, what we do section. Here you can describe about the services you provide. You can select the content type to display in the section—post, page, category, tag or custom. There are different options such as edit section title, section sub-title, select layout and number to make it more convenient to use.

Breadcrumb

Theme Options > Breadcrumb
Breadcrumb option indicate the current page’s location within a navigational hierarchy. This theme supports option to enable or disable breadcrumb.

Fonts

Theme Options > Fonts
Versatile Business Pro supports font options where you can choose different fonts for various sections.

Footer

Theme Options > Footer
Footer option allows you to edit your footer copyright text, you can also edit footer style as one column, two columns or disable it according to your need.

Header Style

Theme Options > Header Option > Header Style
Header Style is one of the unique feature of Versatile Business Pro this option displays header in 7 different styles. You can choose your header style according to your need. Here we have added further options to enable disable sticky header, email, phone, address, open hours, button text and button link option as well.

Slider

Sortable Sections > Slider
Slider is of the eye catching feature in theme, it allows you to showcase your works that might grab attention of your audience. You can display Post/ Page/ Category/ Custom or Tag as your slider. It also has other customizable option such as controlling transition speed of slider, transition effect, image overlay and colors for various sections which helps to make slider more eye appealing. If you have installed WooCommerce Plugin you can add products to your slider as well.

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