Hiring a truly good and professional web designer is a task that you should take very seriously and you should not delegate this task to just anyone.
Believe me, I'm not exaggerating when I tell you this, because you should keep in mind that the success (or failure) of your project and your online business may depend on this hiring.
An online business is like a house: if the foundations are not good, the chances of it collapsing are very high.
And nobody likes having their house fall down, right?
Why else would you want your online business to do that and be an absolute disaster?
When I buy something or hire a service from someone, I don't like to feel like I've been ripped off, deceived or thrown my money away. And I imagine you don't either .
This is why I am writing this article today: because I don't cyprus telegram lead this to happen to you and for you to make a bad choice when hiring a freelance web designer for your project.
This way you can distinguish good professionals from charlatans who only want to get your money without caring in the least about your project.
Let's start with the basics, shall we?
But before continuing, if you prefer to see and hear this information instead of reading it, I leave you a video below in which I discuss all these same key points.
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Reasons to hire a freelance web designer
What does a web designer do?
It helps you to hire domain and hosting
Analyze your business and advise to create a strategic web design
Design and develop your website
Training and post-graduate counselling
How much does a web designer charge?
What skills should a good web designer have?
How to get it right when hiring a web designer
Appreciate his honesty
Value their interest in learning about your business
Consider whether you are given detailed information about the service you are going to hire.
Appreciate that I work with you as a team
Appreciate that you are not always right
He values his experience and realistic view of things.
Appreciate his help and his refusal to offer you everything for free
Conclusion
Reasons to hire a freelance web designer
The reasons for hiring a web designer for your online business can be very varied and depend entirely on the objectives you want to achieve in your business.
But, ultimately, and based on my experience as a web designer , I can briefly summarize them for you in the following. Let's see if you identify with any of them:
You want your traditional physical business to move online , and to do so, you need to have a presence on the Internet.
You want to expand your market to other regions or countries and, to do so, you need to get more visibility and be found on Google.
You are looking to build a reputation for yourself or your brand within your professional sector.
You want to get new clients from a specific geographic area (or from all over the world) to contact you through your website to sell services online .
You are going to create an online store to sell your physical or digital products.
You are going to join the world of online training to sell your courses or memberships .
You have a physical business that requires your customers to make a reservation in advance (such as a medical clinic appointment or a tourist accommodation reservation).
You need to improve your company's internal processes through an intranet that is online and available to your employees or clients.
You currently have a website that you created yourself (or your nephew who “knows computers” did it for you), that no one sees, hasn’t generated a single client or sale for you , and doesn’t give a professional image of your business or brand.
Your current website does not correctly convey the message you want to send to your customers or the value of your products or services, so it does not generate any business of any kind.
You have a custom website created by a developer or programmer that ties you to them for life if you want to make any simple changes, such as changing a text or uploading a photo.
I'm sure you've seen yourself reflected in some of these goals, am I wrong?
Now that the reasons for hiring a web designer are summarized and clear, let's move on to the next step: what options do you have in this regard?
These options are as follows:
You can continue using the website that has not served you any purpose up until now.
You can try to make a new website yourself (or have your nephew, the one who knows about computers, do it for you) spending your time and money on it and get twice as many results as in the first point. In other words, nothing at all.
Maybe you want to build a website with a “Do It Yourself” system like the one advertised on Wix or similar platforms. Those wonderful websites without identity, that are all the same and that don’t rank well on Google.
You also have the option of hiring a cheap freelance web designer to implement an “industrial website” on your hosting, one of those that are made like hotcakes for €300. I warn you: it will end badly too.
Or, finally, you can hire a professional web designer to do a custom job, based on achieving your business objectives, with a strategic design so that these objectives are met and fully customized according to your needs.