Jason Nazar is CEO & Co-founder of Docstoc (docstoc.com). In this video he talks about getting your website built.
Transcription: The best way to get your internet website built is to find a technical partner and whether that’s a co-founder or someone that you bring on early to help you build the website, what’s important is that you actually have a partner and some one that’s a web developer, a software developer, that can build the front-end and back-end of your website. The front-end is what people see, what they interact with. The back-end is the data base portion of your website that will have to hold information and call different aspects of the website that might be a little more complicated. And if you can find an experienced software developer or web programmers that’s built similar websites in the past. You will increase your likelihood of success by 10 times over. So how do you find these folks? You can reach out and use tools like LinkedIn and Facebook to see who software and web developers are. You can find people that have worked in similar internet businesses in your area and you can go to tech events in your local community that you can find out by going to EventBrite or Meetup.com. Next is, you generally want to stay away from firms that would develop your website, unless you have a friend or someone you know that’s done it with success. So in general you can rack up really large bills by using a large firm that may bill you out at a hundred, one hundred fifty, two hundred an hour and may not really understand what you’re exactly trying to do. So try and stay away from these firms unless you can find one that someone you know or trust has used and had good results. And finally, we all know that outsourcing is an option and it can be a low cost option at first but it might be costly over time if you don’t do it right. They’re websites like Guru.com and Elance.com where you can actually go and post the project and you’ll get people from all over the world bidding on those services. And outsourcing your idea to have your development don’t outside the United States may be a way at first to save money, but be careful because overtime, those bills could rack up if they don’t do it as quickly as someone that was working with you here, locally. So the best option that you always have to get your internet website built is to find a technical partner that could work side by side with you and help you build a website and web business of your dreams.
- Find & collaborate with a technical partner
- Front-end: visual Back-end: data
- Search social networks or research similar industries
- Attend local tech events- utilize Eventbrite or Meetup
- Avoid hiring a firm for development unless you know of past experience
- Large firms can cause you to incur high costs
- Outsource if possible through Guru.com or Elance.com
- Be cautious of timelines when outsourcing
The best way to get your internet website built is to find a technical partner and whether that’s a co-founder or someone that you bring on early to help you build the website, what’s important is that you actually have a partner and someone that’s a web developer, a software developer that can build the front end and back end of your website.
The front-end is what people see, what they interact with. The back-end is the database portion of your website that will have to hold information and call different aspects of the website that might be a little bit more complicated, and if you can find experienced software developer or web programmer that has built similar websites in the past, you will increase your likelihood success by 10 times over.
So how do you find these folks? You can reach out and use tools like LinkedIn and Facebook to see who software and web developers are. You can find people that worked in similar internet businesses in your area and you can go to tech events in your local community that you can find up by going to EvenBrite or Meetup.com.
Next is you generally want to stay away from firms that would develop your website unless you have a friend or someone you know that has done it with success.
So in general, you can rack up really large bills by using large firms that may bill you out of 100, 150, 200 an hour and may not really understand exactly what you’re trying to do. So try to stay away from these firms unless you can find one that someone that you know or trust, has used and had good results.
And finally, we all know that outsourcing is an option and it could be a low cost option at first but it might be costly over time if you don’t do it right. There are websites like Guru.com and Elance.com where you can actually go and post the project and you’ll get people from all over the world bidding on those services, and outsourcing your idea to have your development done outside of the United States, may be a way at first to save money, but be careful because over time those bills could rack up if they don’t do it as quickly as someone that was working with you here locally.
So the best option that you always have to get your internet website built is to find a technical partner that can work side by side with you and help you build the website and web business of your dreams.