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Here's a $500 website and here's a $50,000 website.

And if you put them both on screen, sometimes you can't even tell the difference.

So what exactly is going on?

What are you actually paying for when a website costs 10, 20, $50,000?

After building over 750 of them for local businesses, startups and Fortune 500 companies,

I can tell you that the price difference has almost nothing to do with what you see at this surface level.

So in this video, I'm going to break down exactly what makes expensive websites expensive.

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.

So first off, you're not paying for design.

You're actually paying for strategy more than anything else.

Most people think that the price of a website is about the look.

So they'll think, OK, the prettier that it is, the more expensive it must be.

But the real cost driver on a premium project is the strategy

and the research that happens before anyone opens a design tool.

Who is the audience actually?

What are they looking for when they land on the page?

What does the business need this site to actually accomplish?

What are, let's say, the competitors doing and where's the gap that this site needs to fill in the market?

On a $500 site, none of this happens.

Someone just takes the client's request and then they build it.

Let's say the client comes in, I want a homepage, an about page and a contact form.

There's no thinking or intention behind the actual design.

On a $10,000 plus site, the first two weeks are usually all about discovery calls,

competitor audits, sitemap architecture, mapping out content hierarchy, and then wireframes.

The design phase doesn't even start until the thinking is done first.

That's where most of the cost is actually buried.

So let's go a little bit deeper.

Underneath every good website, there's this entire layer of technical work that most people never see.

And then most cheap sites just skip completely because

if a site takes five seconds to load a visitor clicks

away before the page even finishes loading google can't properly read the structure

so the site doesn't rank for anything if it looks fine on iphone

but then falls apart let's say on android then this can also cost clients sales

and it can cost them leads and if it fails an accessibility audit

which is in some countries now a legal requirement you might get fined as well that's why site speed

and general performance optimization are super super important none of this

sort of shadow work shows up on the home page screenshot

that people see but all of it determines whether the site actually works this is the stuff

that directly drives business outcomes e.g are people doing the thing you want them to do on the site

and can all people do it on all devices number three

is conversion architecture now this underlying technical layer is only the first step to making a website premium

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.

Conversion architecture means every layout decision is deliberate.

Where does the island first?

How the copy is structured to answer the objection before the

visitor even forms it in the head why the cta sits exactly where it sits not two grid spaces up

or two grid spaces down why the testimonial block comes after the price reveal

and not before this can massively improve a website's conversion rate

which in the end is the reason why most businesses want a website

and it's why most businesses hire us they want a way to get more clients

and if you can directly influence that then you've done your job

so the difference between designing a nice site and designing a website

that converts is a completely different skill set one is quite decorative in nature

while the other is strategy with a visual output at the end you can obviously pay for either

but they're not the same thing and then the price is going to reflect

that let's talk about the process behind the price now there's another part of this process

that clients will gladly pay more for i had a client

once who wanted a specific layout on the home page big

centered hero minimal copy one cta i took a look at the brief

and i pushed back a little bit because the data

that we had on their audience in particular suggested they needed more info in

that hero section so more info higher up the page we went back

and forth on this so many times

but the final version had double the content above the fold which initially wasn't what they wanted But funnily enough,

the conversion rate nearly doubled from their old site.

And if you just think if I'd have built what they asked for on the first round, that improvement would never have happened.

And with a premium designer or studio, there's a real relationship and a real reputation on the line.

So they care if it works.

That's the part that you can't buy on Fiverr or prompt with AI.

So that's what you pay extra for.

Now there's one final piece that truly makes expensive websites expensive.

And this is the one most people don't think about until it's way, way, way too late.

Most people who buy a cheap website end up regretting it.

Maybe the site doesn't perform.

It looks dated in six months or let's say the designer who initially done it, they're suddenly unreachable.

Whatever they built has broken and now it's your problem.

A $500 Fiverr site has zero downside for the seller if it underperforms.

They've been paid, they've moved on.

But a $50,000 studio project has the designer's reputation,

their portfolio and their relationship with the client tied directly to whether the site works as intended.

The incentives are completely different.

It's not that cheap websites are inherently bad and it's not that they're always bad.

It's that they come with a risk that you're absorbing entirely yourself.

Expensive websites, on the other hand, transfer most of that risk to someone who has every incentive in the world to make it work.

Now you know what you're actually paying for when someone quotes you serious money for a website.

The strategy, the technical work, the conversion architecture, the process, the accountability.

So click this video here because I took a real client project

and built the same website three different ways in five minutes, in five hours and five full days.

You'll see exactly where each version breaks down and what the time actually buys you in practice.

I'll see you there.

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