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Here's a $500 website and here's a $50,000 website.
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And if you put them both on screen, sometimes you can't even tell the difference.
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So what exactly is going on?
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What are you actually paying for when a website costs 10, 20, $50,000?
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After building over 750 of them for local businesses, startups and Fortune 500 companies,
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I can tell you that the price difference has almost nothing to do with what you see at this surface level.
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So in this video, I'm going to break down exactly what makes expensive websites expensive.
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So whether you're thinking about commissioning a site or you're trying to figure out why a current one isn't performing, you'll know precisely what you're looking at.
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So first off, you're not paying for design.
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You're actually paying for strategy more than anything else.
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Most people think that the price of a website is about the look.
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So they'll think, OK, the prettier that it is, the more expensive it must be.
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But the real cost driver on a premium project is the strategy
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and the research that happens before anyone opens a design tool.
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Who is the audience actually?
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What are they looking for when they land on the page?
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What does the business need this site to actually accomplish?
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What are, let's say, the competitors doing and where's the gap that this site needs to fill in the market?
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On a $500 site, none of this happens.
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Someone just takes the client's request and then they build it.
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Let's say the client comes in, I want a homepage, an about page and a contact form.
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There's no thinking or intention behind the actual design.
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On a $10,000 plus site, the first two weeks are usually all about discovery calls,
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competitor audits, sitemap architecture, mapping out content hierarchy, and then wireframes.
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The design phase doesn't even start until the thinking is done first.
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That's where most of the cost is actually buried.
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So let's go a little bit deeper.
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Underneath every good website, there's this entire layer of technical work that most people never see.
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And then most cheap sites just skip completely because
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if a site takes five seconds to load a visitor clicks
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away before the page even finishes loading google can't properly read the structure
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so the site doesn't rank for anything if it looks fine on iphone
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but then falls apart let's say on android then this can also cost clients sales
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and it can cost them leads and if it fails an accessibility audit
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which is in some countries now a legal requirement you might get fined as well that's why site speed
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and general performance optimization are super super important none of this
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sort of shadow work shows up on the home page screenshot
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that people see but all of it determines whether the site actually works this is the stuff
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that directly drives business outcomes e.g are people doing the thing you want them to do on the site
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and can all people do it on all devices number three
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is conversion architecture now this underlying technical layer is only the first step to making a website premium
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but then you've got But the other layer that's more obvious, and this is the one that businesses will pay thousands of dollars for, and it's the conversion layer.
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Conversion architecture means every layout decision is deliberate.
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Where does the island first?
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How the copy is structured to answer the objection before the
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visitor even forms it in the head why the cta sits exactly where it sits not two grid spaces up
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or two grid spaces down why the testimonial block comes after the price reveal
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and not before this can massively improve a website's conversion rate
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which in the end is the reason why most businesses want a website
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and it's why most businesses hire us they want a way to get more clients
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and if you can directly influence that then you've done your job
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so the difference between designing a nice site and designing a website
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that converts is a completely different skill set one is quite decorative in nature
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while the other is strategy with a visual output at the end you can obviously pay for either
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but they're not the same thing and then the price is going to reflect
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that let's talk about the process behind the price now there's another part of this process
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that clients will gladly pay more for i had a client
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once who wanted a specific layout on the home page big
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centered hero minimal copy one cta i took a look at the brief
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and i pushed back a little bit because the data
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that we had on their audience in particular suggested they needed more info in
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that hero section so more info higher up the page we went back
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and forth on this so many times
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but the final version had double the content above the fold which initially wasn't what they wanted But funnily enough,
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the conversion rate nearly doubled from their old site.
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And if you just think if I'd have built what they asked for on the first round, that improvement would never have happened.
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And with a premium designer or studio, there's a real relationship and a real reputation on the line.
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So they care if it works.
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That's the part that you can't buy on Fiverr or prompt with AI.
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So that's what you pay extra for.
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Now there's one final piece that truly makes expensive websites expensive.
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And this is the one most people don't think about until it's way, way, way too late.
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Most people who buy a cheap website end up regretting it.
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Maybe the site doesn't perform.
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It looks dated in six months or let's say the designer who initially done it, they're suddenly unreachable.
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Whatever they built has broken and now it's your problem.
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A $500 Fiverr site has zero downside for the seller if it underperforms.
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They've been paid, they've moved on.
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But a $50,000 studio project has the designer's reputation,
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their portfolio and their relationship with the client tied directly to whether the site works as intended.
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The incentives are completely different.
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It's not that cheap websites are inherently bad and it's not that they're always bad.
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It's that they come with a risk that you're absorbing entirely yourself.
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Expensive websites, on the other hand, transfer most of that risk to someone who has every incentive in the world to make it work.
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Now you know what you're actually paying for when someone quotes you serious money for a website.
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The strategy, the technical work, the conversion architecture, the process, the accountability.
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So click this video here because I took a real client project
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and built the same website three different ways in five minutes, in five hours and five full days.
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You'll see exactly where each version breaks down and what the time actually buys you in practice.
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I'll see you there.
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אוצר מילים והערות הגייה לשיעור הזה
שיעור הדיבור הזה ברמה B2 מבוסס על הסרטון “What Makes Expensive Websites Expensive”. המילים שחוזרות הכי הרבה: site, website, client, conversion, expensive. בסרטון הזה יש 90 משפטים ו-1159 מילים לתרגול Shadowing. הדיבור נמשך 6:01. הדובר מדבר מהר, כ-193 מילים בדקה, אז צפו לצלילים מחוברים ומקוצרים. 85% מהמילים נמצאות בין 3,000 המילים הנפוצות ביותר באנגלית; כדאי ללמוד את השאר לפני שמתחילים.
אוצר מילים מרכזי בסרטון הזה
14 המילים המתקדמות ביותר בסרטון, עם ההגייה והמשמעות שלהן:
| מילה | הגייה | משמעות |
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| competitor שם עצם | /kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tɚ/ | מִתְחָרֶה, מתחרה |
| incentive שם עצם | /ɪnˈsɛntɪv/ | תמריץ |
| grid שם עצם | /ɡɹɪd/ | רֶשֶׁת |
| accessibility שם עצם | /əkˌsɛs.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/ | נְגִישׁוּת, הַנְגָּשָׁה |
| cellar שם עצם | /ˈsɛləɹ/ | מַרְתֵּף |
| objection שם עצם | /əbˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/ | הִתנַגְדוּת |
| hierarchy שם עצם | /ˈhaɪ.ə.ɹɑː(ɹ).ki/ | הִיֵרַרכִיָה \ הייררכיה |
| absorb פועל | /æbˈsɔɹb/ | ספג |
| deliberate שם תואר | /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət/ | מכוון |
| startup שם עצם | /ˈstɑɹtˌʌp/ | סטארטאפ, חברת סטארטאפ |
| bury פועל | /ˈbɛɹi/ | קָבַר |
| accomplish פועל | /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/ | בִּצֵּעַ |
| convert פועל | /kənˈvɝt/ | המיר |
| portfolio שם עצם | /pɔːtˈfəʊ.liˌəʊ/ | פורטפוליו, תיק |
Phrasal verbs שתשמעו
| מילה | משמעות |
|---|---|
| fall apart פועל | התפרק, מט לנפול |
| figure out פועל | הֵבִין, מצא תשובה |
דקדוק בסרטון הזה
המבנים שהדובר משתמש בהם הכי הרבה, עם המילים המדויקות מהסרטון:
| מבנה | בסרטון |
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| הווה מושלם (Present perfect) have/has + past participle — פעולה שקרתה בעבר ועדיין יש לה חשיבות או השפעה עכשיו | you've done · has broken · They've been paid |
| סביל (Passive voice) be + past participle — הדגש הוא על מה שקורה, לא על מי שעושה את הפעולה | is actually buried · is structured · They've been paid |
| משפטי זיקה (Relative clauses) who / which + clause — מידע נוסף על אדם או דבר | people who buy · someone who has |
הגייה ששווה לשים לב אליה
הדובר משתמש ב-29 קיצורים וצורות מקוצרות, כמו you're, can't, doesn't. אמרו אותם בצורה הקצרה, כפי שאתם שומעים אותם.
- הצלילים של “sh” ו-“zh”: optimization /ˌɑptəmaɪˈzeɪʃən/, screenshot /ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/, objection /əbˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/, accomplish /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/
- מילים ארוכות — שימו לב להטעמה: competitor /kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tɚ/, testimonial /tɛstɪˈmoʊni.əl/, accessibility /əkˌsɛs.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/, inherently /ɪnˈhɛɹəntli/, optimization /ˌɑptəmaɪˈzeɪʃən/
צלילים שדוברי עברית מתקשים בהם:
- /æ/ — פתוח יותר מה-“אֶ” העברית, לא כמו “a” ב-“cup”: massively /ˈmæs.ɪv.li/, gladly /ˈɡlædli/, absorb /æbˈsɔɹb/
- /r/ — הלשון לא נוגעת בשום מקום, לא ה-“ר” הגרונית: grid /ɡɹɪd/, inherently /ɪnˈhɛɹəntli/, cellar /ˈsɛləɹ/, screenshot /ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/, hierarchy /ˈhaɪ.ə.ɹɑː(ɹ).ki/
- עיצור קולי בסוף מילה — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ בלי להפוך אותם לאטומים: incentive /ɪnˈsɛntɪv/, grid /ɡɹɪd/, downside /ˈdaʊnˌsaɪd/, decorative /ˈdɛk.ə.ɹə.tɪv/, absorb /æbˈsɔɹb/
איך לתרגל עם הסרטון הזה
- הקשיבו לכל הסרטון פעם אחת בלי לדבר, ורשמו את המילים שאתם לא מכירים.
- התחילו במהירות 0.75×, תרגלו Shadowing משפט אחר משפט, וחזרו למהירות רגילה כשזה מרגיש קל.
- הקליטו את עצמכם והשוו למקור, תוך תשומת לב למילים כמו competitor, incentive, grid.
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