Not only are you the owner of an established massage salon, but you’re also a smart business person who knows that the best way to grow your massage spa moving forward is to establish yourself online. You also know you have at least two options – you could build it yourself, or you could pay someone else to build it for you. What you don’t know, perhaps, is how much a business website costs.
We can tell you that, according to web developers – the people who build websites professionally – the average cost of having someone build a basic small business website for you is between £2,000-£8,000.
That’s probably a larger number than you were expecting, and it’s a huge range as well – different types of businesses require different sorts of websites, from e-commerce focused pages to service providers. And it doesn’t take into account any money you’ll need to keep the page online, like domain and hosting costs, to technical support if something goes wrong.
Take a look at this cost breakdown:
Creating A Massage Salon Website
In order to create a Massage Salon website, you’ll have to follow these three steps:
Step 1: Find Hosting.
The actual space on a computer where your website files liveStep 2: Choose and Purchase a Domain
The Domain is the “name” of your website: what you actually type into your Internet browser to access the web pageStep 3: Build The Website
How To Set Up A Website with UENI
Actually creating the website. All the code, all of the content. Everything.
Creating a business website that appears on Google properly for free in the UK might seem like an impossible challenge – especially when you consider that average cost of between £2,000 and £8,000 if you pay a developer to create the entire thing from scratch – but it doesn’t have to be difficult.
What UENI Can Do For You
UENI can give you a fully built website in three days or less.
UENI was founded to provide small businesses like massage salons and spas with an easy, low-cost way to get online and get new customers. We saw that these operations don’t often have the time or budget to get online themselves.
That’s why UENI can give you a fully built website for your business in three days or less at a reasonable cost. In fact, our Starter Plan is absolutely free.
It’s a win-win. You can spend more time providing outstanding massages to your increased customer base and you’ll gain new customers who have been able to find you because of your increased web presence.
We know you want your clothing alteration shop listed where your customers can find you, and we know your customers want to find your clothing alteration shop.
What About A DIY Website?
No matter what the industry, if you’re looking to cut down on costs, building your own website is one option you may have explored already. With all the different web-building platforms available today, you don’t need to be massively tech-savvy to create a DIY website for your massage spa. You don’t have to code, or manage hosts or servers or know more than the very basics of web design.
But just because it’s easier, that doesn’t mean that you won’t be spending time on your website that you couldn’t be spending on perfecting your Body massage, 60 minutes and 90 minutes. And building your website is just one part of the puzzle – you’ll also need to make sure that people can find it online, which means investigating SEO (or Search Engine Optimisation), getting on to directories and Google My Business. That’s before we get to the importance of making sure your spa’s website shows up correctly on mobile, too.
In other words, there’s a reason website development is a full-fledged career, and if you’re a busy small business owner, you might not have the time to build a DIY site for your business that measures up to your own personal satisfaction.
Luckily for you, there are many business-oriented website creators out there. You could go to Wix, which will help you to create a visually appealing website for free, but as soon as you want to create your own domain name, get rid of advertisements, or make bookings for a body massage, you’ll need to pay between £5 and £25 a month, depending on the features you need.
You could also consider WordPress, which caters a bit more to those with some web development aptitude. Still, you’ll run into similar budget concerns when you want to customise your site. You might find that maintaining the site is encroaching more and more on your ability to continue to deliver the best massage services around. Similarly to Wix, you’ll find that the features that make your webpage business-appropriate don’t come for free, and you’ll also have to know how to implement them.