SageRock Custom Web Development Pricing Revealed

Here’s a novel idea: Give people what they want!

A few blog posts ago I wrote the post: SageRock SEO Pricing Guide Revealed.

It is now the second most visited page on our site.

Title Tag and Meta Description Length for Google, Yahoo, Bing & Ask continues to be, by far, the most visited page on our site.

But that is also an older post. Maybe our SEO pricing guide will someday get to that level. Greg wrote that meta description length post. I’ve always been really envious of his accomplishments with that page.

Maybe my pricing guide will beat him.

I find it interesting that disclosing pricing is something still so rare in our industry.

I love that quote: “You can’t handle the truth.”

Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men. "You can't handle the truth."

That’s how all of us service providers treat our clients. “You can’t handle the pricing guide.”

It’s bullshit.

Let people know that the pricing guide is general. Let them know that you are a custom shop and you usually make solutions tailored specifically for each client.

Then give them the freakin’ pricing sheet!

People just want to be leveled with.

So, in that vein, I just created a proposal for doing a custom Web development project.

I wanted to give that to you too.

I don’t mention it in the proposal, but I typically build these in WordPress.

Why I love WordPress:

WordPress runs over 50 million websites.
There is an ever growing number of plugins that will let you do virtually anything you want with it. Things like:

Super easy video embedding.
Every possible social sharing feature you could ever imagine or want.
Slick Google Analytics embedding options
One-step Feedburner RSS feed integration.
Great caching features to speed the thing up.
I really could do this all day.
Here’s the link to the most popular WordPress plugins: WordPress Plugins » Most Popular. They are all free and super awesome.

Joomla and Drupal are cool. But most people don’t need that capability. They are also a lot harder to interact with than WordPress.
Here are 21 Popular Brands That Are Using WordPress.
It’s super SEO friendly. With minor plugin additions I can make WordPress an awesome SEO machine.
I know it really well. So I’m able to trick it out exactly the way you want it.
You can take your WordPress site away from my management anytime you want. I hate custom content management systems that are geared towards forcing you to not leave a provider. You can export your WordPress site any day you want. You can then import it back into another WordPress system or pretty much any other standard CMS system.

This proposal is for doing a custom development and design.

It includes:

An Initial Kick Off Meeting.

With this proposal, I’ll gladly come to you if you are within a 50 miles of Akron. Otherwise we might have to do it on the phone as a GotoMeeting. And I’d love to have you come to SageRock any time you would like. I travel a lot to see clients out of state. But this is an entry level development project quoted here. So if you want us to come see you outside of 50 miles we might have to negotiate something additional.

Site Design with 3 Comps
Content Management System (WordPress) Setup with Chosen Design
3 Conversions Setup in Google Analytics

The value we bring to web development is our perspective. Everything we do is focused on traffic. We get you traffic and get your traffic to do more of what you want.

People come to us to help make their online presence a lead generation tool. That’s what we do with all of our traffic generation capabilities. And that is what we do when we develop a site.

If you are having us do a custom designed project this proposal is pretty much our point of entry.

That said, I’ve spent a lot of time working on giving start-ups and very small businesses really good solutions.

I am so taken by entrepreneurs and people trying to grow their small business.

To that end, I’ve created SageRock Places. You can try it totally for free. And then it’s $19.95/month if you want to stay with it.

It too is built on the WordPress framework.

SageRock Places has over 130 templates within it. If you can find something in there that you like visually you wouldn’t have to pay a dime for design work.

You can also look through the multitude of WordPress templates that are available online. If you find one out there that you like I’ll happily load it into SageRock Places for you.

If you want to try SageRock Places (totally for free) let me know and I’ll give you the secret word you need to setup a free site.

If you need help customizing a template we can also do that for you too. We would quote you on the work for that.

So, just like I mentioned in the last article, if you are interested in working with us just be aware that this is simply an example proposal. Depending on your specific needs the cost could be less or more.

This proposal is pretty much the starting point for us to develop a custom design for you. It also shows what our hourly rate is if you want us to do additional work on an hourly basis.

At the end it shows some example designs we have done.

So here you go. Here is the SageRock Custom Web Development Pricing Proposal example.

This post was written by

Sage Lewis – who has written 333 posts on SageRock Digital Marketing Blog.
My name is Sage Frederick Lewis. My kid's name is Indiana Sage Lewis. I am filled with love and passion for many things in life. The list of things I like about life is MUCH longer than the things I don't like about life. So, since you don't have all day reading about the mundane things I love (some of which, btw, include: Rocky, Indy, SageRock, movies, pizza, cheesecake, running, exploring.) here are the things I don't like: Driving Meetings Zucchini (I like it fine. I'm just allergic.) I think that's pretty much it. My Twitter account is: http://twitter.com/sagerock My YouTube Channel is: http://www.youtube.com/sagerock