The big news of the week is Rick Latona shutting down AEIOU.com, because, and I quote, “The reality is there is no money in web design. It’s hard. The customers are hard to please. The margins are slim and frankly, there are bigger fish to fry”. Rick is not the first one to walk away from mini-site development. SiteGraduate.com did the same either late last year or early this year, basically for the same reasons.
Although I don’t completely disagree with Rick, I’d still like to offer my services to the domain community.
Here are a handful of mini-site examples that my team has completed.
Pricing and what is included: (Content written in the United States)
$149 – WordPress install, theme, custom header, seo plugins, adsense, banners and 5 unique articles 250-300 words each.
$179 – Same as above with some minor link building and directory listings.
$299 – Same as above with an additional 11 articles. Use these articles to post one every month giving yourself a year of steady unique content.
For any orders of 10 or more I can offer a slight discount.
Honestly, I’m not trying to compete with any of the existing mini-site companies such as DomainMassDevelopment.com or MiniSites.com. If you are already using their services then please continue. I have not re-invented the wheel here. I strongly believe that I can put out a good looking, high quality content site that, with some work on your end, will do very well. When I say work on your end, I mean it. Content should be added at least once per month if not more often and you will have to work to sell ad space, links and so forth. If you need the help, I will be more than happy to teach you how to monetize your website.
One extra personal touch that I can offer is that if you are not familiar with WordPress, I can personally walk you through adding links and making minor additions to the mini-site. There is no need to pay me for a two minute change, I’d rather you be empowered to do it yourself.
If you are interested in my services please use the contact form to open communications. I look forward to earning your business.
You are very clever. Props.
I never offered these services before because I always had a mini-site company advertising with me. Out of respect for my advertisers I would never compete with them.
Those are some good looking examples. Wow, ipads.com is very close to a gold mine.
Very cool Patrick. And best of luck with it! Your writer does great work BTW, and that is coming from someone who has someone doing content work as well:)
Very well done, Patrick! This is what a minisite should look like. The content is above and beyond what I had expected to see (they actually have the potential to provide value to someone searching the topic), and they look great (professional). Not to mention, they rank highly in their keywords.
Well done and said.
Keep it up! I will contact you if I need your service.
Hi Patrick,
I could use your service, these are very nice examples, much better than others out there.
Regards
Thanks Chris. I would love the opportunity to earn your business.
Oh no……not another mini-site BS developer clown!….:(
Thank you everyone for the kind words.
Nice samples Patrick. They work. And to have the flexibility of WordPress makes it even more appealing since it allows for you to consistently and easily grow your website over time… making this offer more than a minisite in reality.