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Posted By: Diana Ratliff
Monday, 2 January 2006, at 2:37 p.m.
Okay, I live in a prosperous college town. I'm always running into business owners who had a college student build their website - and once the college student graduated, the business owners have no idea how to update or maintain the site from then on. One gentleman I talked to (music store owner) doesn't even know where his site is hosted, passwords, ANYTHING.
Seems to me there's an opportunity here... but would like someone to help me analyze pros/cons and considerations.
Some concerns I have:
1) I'm not a high-end web designer. I've hand-coded basic sites and use Frontpage for more sophisticated sites. It's entirely possible that they may have a website that's beyond my knowledge/skill level - but my guess is if their website is THAT high-end, they have a webmaster on staff. And if I make it clear I do website UPKEEP, not website DESIGN, maybe I'm okay? (Or is that distinction too fine?)
2) Related to the one above - I don't own all the web design programs that someone might have used on their site. How critical do y'all think that would be? I mean, if the site I need to update was created in Dreamweaver and I don't KNOW (or HAVE) Dreamweaver, is this idea even feasible?
3) I have NO IDEA how to price this - should I provide a free consultation, and then just give them an estimate? And I could charge one price for a one-time update, and also offer some package that includes regular updates to the site (in otherwords, acting as their webmaster.)
Anyone ever done something like this, or know where to look to research it?
One bit of expertise I have which might help sell my service is that I'm an Accessible Web Specialist at a local university and have lectured nationally on that topic. I've also taken courses to be a Certified Website Makeover Consultant. One of my sites has been in the top 10 in Google for very competitive terms. So I could certainly act as a consultant, too. At the very least, I can EXPLAIN what an autoresponder is or SEO and why dancing monkeys on your screen isn't a good idea... (unless of course, you SELL dancing monkeys.)
Please, any advice welcome!
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