In the third decade of the twenty-first century, there are many website building companies that make a lot of promises about building advanced and leading websites with no setup cost. After a comprehensive review of the field and a market survey, we went out into the field to make some order for you – Building websites for free, is it worth it?
The options available to you
In order to understand the complex model of free website building we will divide it into several categories of website builders. In the first category you can find the Internet software, or as they are called in the industry SAAS – Acronym for Software As A Service, or in Hebrew Tshacha, software as a service. In this category, products that offer added value to the customer stand out – Such as an inventory management system or a system that automatically promotes the site in the search results (organic promotion). In the second category, a website building model is offered with a monthly payment – Unlike the previous category, the service stands out in updates by the website building company and customer service that offers a variety of options for updating the website. In the third category, the product that stands out in the market, pay only for the promotion and the site on us (on the key of the site of course) – This category stands out due to the unique marketing advantage of purchasing a service without an initial payment.
So without further ado, let's dive into detailing each of the categories and how free website building can affect your business.
The LowCost model: building websites for free with management software
The model that became popular in the early 20's turned into a console when Israeli software made headlines. Off-the-shelf software that offers virtual management software for your website with self-installation, selection of an existing design and changes by the user (the end customer) are in the public domain and enable a variety of processes for small and medium-sized businesses to promote their product or service on the Internet.
Digital ST also joined the success of the management systems and established a dedicated management system called Whoopix – Which is a direct continuation of the popular management system DigitalCMS v7 which has served over 300 clients and 1000 websites in ongoing management and updates of the website.
The popular Hopix management system offers a variety of options for opening a website free of charge, with advanced design options and automatic website promotion.
The convenient model: building websites for free with update and maintenance services
There are many website building companies that today offer free website building services with regular update and maintenance services. The offered service comes in the "pay only for the maintenance" model. – Which means that the establishment of the site is done free of charge, and the monthly service is performed by professionals at the cost of the hourly service they provide to the project and the client.
The model is becoming more and more popular among advertisers and it can be seen that the monthly service provided ranges from prices of 500 NIS per month to 2000 NIS, in comparison to the professionalism of the work, the required professionals and the amount of monthly hours required to write, update and edit the website.
The model does not offer management system services by virtue of being a model managed by the website building company; Therefore, it is not suitable for anyone and not for companies and businesses interested in exclusive control of independent website management services .
Digital ST has upgraded the model and offers management services on top of a quality content system with comprehensive access to the client for content management. In this way, the customer is allowed to make updates that save time and also money during the strengthening services. At the same time, a bank of hours of various professionals is given in a service agreement called "SLA" – Service acronymLevel Agreement – Which can be loosely translated in Hebrew as "service level agreement". In the agreement you can find the scope of operating hours and the speed of response to updates and repair of faults on the website. This agreement is accepted by many digital companies and even by service providers in the Internet field, in order to promote quality service to the customer.
The popular model: free website building with organic promotion
What will be popular in the early years of the post-corona period – Has become a standard in an insatiable industry and in an era where competition is daily between website promoters throughout the country and the world.
According to experts from the Internet field, organic website promotion is slowly becoming the most profitable investment channel in the digital market and with it comes the benefits of providing quality surfers that are expressed in organic leads without competition (at the level of quality) - when every second customer closes a project and the monthly payment does not change according to the quantities received on the site.
Organic website promotion is a process that takes a lot of time, therefore many companies embody the payment of building the website in the monthly payment of the promotion and thus create a kind of "discount" maximum or even an increased monthly payment.
This package is also offered at Digital ST, thus creating a significant discount for the client interested in organic promotion in setting up the site and building the required features.
the bottom line
Building websites for free can be profitable and even high-quality if you know how to choose the right company to provide the partner services. Choose a reliable and high-quality company with a background in building brands and quality companies so that your website and even the monthly marketing will produce proper and good results for the twenties.