Global WebTrader and you.

Cost effective, professional help that you can relax with.

Scale of Fees (October 2001)

Our In general and for large projects we recommend the fixed price package to control costs but if you are happy with an hourly rate then thats our basic package. Please ensure you specify the which option you want to use when contacting us, default is the flexi package! Ask your GWT representative when they call for the first discovery meeting!

Flexi Package
Our flexi package offers clients our fixed rate hourly charge. Our basic rate for all work is UK£35 per hour exclusive of VAT. The flexi package option is ideal for small businesses starting out on the web. Its a low cost start up that will allow you to get set up for a lot less than you might think. In real terms a site like ours will cost you around UK£300 to design, create, get on line, and register your presence with the search engines. That is assuming you can supply us with any graphics logos etc. from pre-existing business literature and that you have a clear idea of the look you want - please remember that it is unethical to simply "steal" someone elses page off of the web and we will not help if thats what you want to do. Use other sites as a guideline or stylistic pointer but hijacking the HTML is not countenanced here.

We do require payment of the invoice within 30 working days of receipt unless otherwise agreed.

Fixed Package
Our fixed package allows you to choose to have a fixed price for a project. No matter how long we spend on your project we will stick to the agreed price and complete the agreed project. Of course it also means that if we finish ahead of schedule we keep anything over! This is designed for medium and large businesses who have larger budgets and, perhaps, more complex requirements. The start price for fixed packages is UK£420 excluding VAT.

How Much
Our prices are as follows:

Global WebTrader Guarantee
We want to keep your business and we will do everything we can to accommodate your needs, part of the service we offer is to prepare an agreed project specification before we start work, or you can give us a rough outline and leave the rest to us (usually a more expensive option and not recommended). We cannot be held responsible if the problem lies in the goods or the service you are provideing via the site or your off-line service to customers. We will also not be responsible for work beyond the scope of the agreed specification although we will do our utmost to ensure that you are aware of options beyond the agreed scope.

Some hints to keep your costs down
Take a little time to look around the web, Check out the sites of your competitors. See what they are doing that you like, and what you think works. Find a site with features that you want on your own site, think about how many pages you might need to do your business justice. If you have a good idea about these things then you can have a much greater input to the design stage and cut down on the work left to us.

Think about the web and how its surfers use it. A lot of designers will tell you that you have 10 seconds to keep a visitor on your site, to convince them that you have something to sell them. Up to a point this is true, but don't forget that if someone has taken the trouble to find your site because they believe you have something they want then they are going to give you some time. Do your visitors a favour by making it easy to find what they want on your site, the Net can take time to download depending on all sorts of variables, if you make your visitors wait for 1 minute to find what they are after then over the course of 600000 hits you have probably wasted a surfers whole lifetime**!!
So think about the structure you need.
** ((70 years x 365.25 days) x 24 hours) x 60 minutes = 613603 minutes = one surfers lifetime

Take some time to work out what you need from your project, its success criteria, if you have a clear idea about what you expect to get out of the project then we can work to those objectives or to exceed them. Its a lot easier to make something a success when you have criteria to measure against.

Essentially the more you can tell us about your wants the less we have to do and the lower your costs will be. We are perfectly happy to work from a completely blank slate (if there is such a thing), and to help firm up your ideas and build upon them but if you want to keep costs down then follow our suggestions!!

You are the expert for your business, we are in ours, together we can overcome all obstacles to success.