You found a web designer on Fiverr who built your site for $500. Great deal, right?
Let’s look at what that “deal” is actually costing you.
Say you run a service business in Georgia. Your average customer is worth $500 to $2,000. Now consider:
With a good website: 500 visitors × 3% = 15 leads per month With a cheap website: 500 visitors × 0.5% = 2.5 leads per month
That’s 12.5 lost leads every month. At $1,000 average customer value:
$12,500 in lost revenue. Every. Single. Month.
Your $500 “savings” disappears in the first week.
Cheap hosting and unoptimized code mean slow load times. Every second costs you:
That $10/month hosting isn’t saving money—it’s costing leads.
That $500 website is probably a template that thousands of other businesses use. When your competitor down the street has the same design, how do you stand out?
Trust is built through perceived professionalism. Generic designs signal generic business.
Cheap developers often skip proper mobile testing. They check if it “kind of works” on their phone and call it done.
But “kind of works” isn’t good enough when 60%+ of your visitors are on mobile devices. Buttons too small to tap, text impossible to read, forms that don’t function—each issue drives customers away.
A cheap website typically has:
You’re invisible to the people searching for your services.
That bargain WordPress installation probably has:
When (not if) you get hacked, the cleanup costs more than doing it right the first time.
A dental practice in Atlanta had a $800 website that looked “fine.” Problem: It didn’t rank for any local searches. Zero Google visibility.
After a proper website redesign with SEO built in, they now rank on page one for “dentist near me” in their area. New patient inquiries doubled.
Investment: $4,500 Return: 5+ new patients monthly at $2,000+ average value
A general contractor’s DIY site had a contact form that didn’t work on mobile. He had no idea—nobody told him leads were bouncing.
When we fixed it (along with other issues), lead volume increased 180%.
A family restaurant’s Wix site was so slow on mobile that Google barely showed it in local search. Competitors with faster sites got all the visibility.
Rebuilding on a proper platform with speed optimization put them back in the map pack. Reservations increased significantly.
A professional website typically costs $2,500-$8,000. Here’s the return:
Month 1-3: Website launches, SEO starts building Month 4-6: Organic traffic increases, leads start flowing Month 7-12: Compound effect—better rankings, more traffic, more leads Year 2+: Website continues generating leads at no additional cost
Compare that to ads, where you pay for every click and leads stop when you stop paying.
It’s not “How much does a website cost?”
It’s “How much business am I losing with my current website?”
A $5,000 website that generates $10,000/month in new business isn’t an expense—it’s a 200% monthly return on investment.
If your website isn’t generating leads, you’re paying for it whether you realize it or not.
We build websites that actually work—sites that rank, convert, and pay for themselves through new business.
Get a free website audit and let’s see what your current site is really costing you.
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