Yes, the Internet is here to stay and people are increasingly using it to locate brick and mortar businesses. Done correctly, the Internet is a good place for your business 'ad' - an impressive one-page web site making a great first impression and helping your future customers find you.
A web site should accomplish these very important things for you:
- Make a great first impression with appearance and content
- Motivate your future customers to visit your store
- Show them how to easily contact you and locate your store
- Brand your shop name to your business and email address
- Creates an easy-to-remember domain name and email address(es)
- Personalizes your email address(es) (e.g., Betty@twiceasnice.net)
- Most of all, your site must be prepared properly so that Internet surfers will find it!
Our web site receives hundreds of visitors every month who use search phrases like:
Consignment Shops in New York
Consignment Stores in Houston
Your web site can be attractive yet simple. It only needs to be one page letting people who are looking for consignment/resale in your area find you.
The following expenses are typical cost is setting up a web site:
Three reasons why people don't bother with a website -
- Cost - The above total without directory listings is around $900 the first year then $500 annually
- Complexity - A whole new learning curve - especially discouraging for those who don't like computers in the first place
- Maintenance - A web site is a combination of browser code, software and hardware all working together correctly. Web sites need constant monitoring (to make sure they are up and running) and constant maintenance.
Our Complete Web Site Package
Before offering our assistance, we wanted you to know that creating and maintaining a website is not a simple matter. We can cut some corners and cost and have a web site up usually within 5 business days. Our Complete Web Site Package for one web page includes:
|
Your Cost |
Average Cost |
| Domain Registration (yearly) |
$ 10 |
$ 20 |
| Web Site Hosting (yearly) |
$ 90 |
$120 |
| 5 Email Addresses |
included |
included |
| File Transfer |
Free |
$ 50 |
| Template |
$ 99 |
$ 50 |
| Page Optimization |
$ 99 |
$300 |
| Monitoring |
optional |
$120 |
| Maintenance |
optional |
$240 |
| Total |
$298 |
$900 |
Web site monitoring and maintenance are offered separately because they can be performed by the site owner. We can do both for $249/year, paid in advance.
For most consignment store operations one page will suffice. Information normally found on pages like 'About Us', 'Contact Us', 'FAQ', address/direction can be placed on the Home Page. Additional pages are $29.
Beware of software companies (like Consignpro) offering '5-page websites'. Such sites are usually expensive, contain very little information and are essentially worthless if they can't be found searching Google for terms related to your business. Such offers are just another attempt to garner big dollars for little work.
