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Your £500 website budget is the problem.
Walk into a Ferrari garage with £500 and you’ll get the same answer.
▶Play the video: Your £500 website budget is the problem.“Sorry, our budget for a website is only £500, so we won’t be able to continue this conversation.” Fair enough. You weren’t going to get a good website for £500 anyway.
As a rule, if you’re not paying at least £3,000 for a website, you’re in trouble. And £3,000 is a danger zone too. That’s where somebody buys a $50 WordPress theme, charges you £3,000 for the pleasure, then disappears and leaves you with it.
A good budget for a website is somewhere between £10,000 and £20,000 plus. If you’ve only got £500, save it up every month until you’ve got at least £6,000.
It’s like walking into a Ferrari garage and asking what they’ve got for £500. They won’t say it, but the answer is nothing, mate. Spending more doesn’t automatically get you good work either. It’s just that £500 definitely won’t.
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I'm sorry but our budget for a website is only 500 pounds, so we will not be able to continue this conversation. In general, I'd say if you're not paying at least 3,000 pounds for a website, and by the way, that's a dangerous zone area, you're going to get screwed over by somebody who's going to just buy you a WordPress theme for $50, charge you 3,000 pounds for the pleasure, and then piss off and leave you with a website. A good budget range for a website is anywhere to 10,000 to 20,000 pound plus. If you were budgeting 500 pounds for a website, you're not going to get a good website. So, you might as well just save those 500 pounds up every month until you finally got at least 6,000 of them.
It's as ridiculous as going into Ferrari garage and saying, "Uh my budget's only 500 pounds for a Ferrari. What Ferrari have you got for me?" The answer that they wouldn't tell you is, "Fuck all, mate. We've got no Ferraris for you for 500 pounds."