How much does it cost for someone to set up FB, Insta and a website?

[Ourdearoldqueen]

Like, assuming it’s done by an able teen rather than a super duper company. This is to promote a sole trader thing. Rough going rate of what to expect to pay.

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Depends on how complex you are wanting it to be really.... My able teen would be happy to help though and usually charges £25 per hour for Instagram support / content creation / videos etc.

Not very complex - it’s to promote a particular product and the site would need to be able to take payments and update a calendar.

How many hours do you think Able Teen would need?

I set my company website up in a few hours but you need to have the content ready eg as word documents to cut and paste, and a clear brief for the designer. Insta and facebook are about an hour each for a standard sort of page but again you need to have the details ready and they link to your personal page so you need to be a member.

I’m currently nearing the end of a full-stack development course, which means I can build both the front and back end of websites (all the clever stuff!). I’m exploring how to market myself and figure out what my skills are worth!

I’d be happy to guide you through setting up a domain name—always best to buy it yourself so you fully own it. I actually just created a PDF outlining everything to consider when getting online. I’d love to send it to you in exchange for some feedback!

What’s your business about? Maybe we could come up with a barter arrangement that works for both of us?

The the payments you need to have signed up to whatever service you plan to use. I would suggest getting your designer to use a website set up that you can update yourself with guidance to reduce future costs, mine is Wordpress

You don't need to pay anyone to set up Facebook or Instagram - it's free and they just walk you through the process.

As for a website, it depends how much of a brief you have and what details you have written out already?

There's lots of off the shelf systems you could use, Shopify is great for e-commerce (there are open source versions too) You'll have to pay for domain and hosting at a minimum and as poster upthread said, you'll have fees for payment integration too.

Setting up instagram and fb very easy to do yourself. Minimal work.

I'd create yourself some social media post templates in Canva so it looks professional.

Website, assuming you use wix or squarespace , it depends on what content you need, if you have everything ready, the SEO research you need to do, to take payment you'll need a payment gateway like stripe, and potentially a booking system. I do websites for small businesses and this would take me a couple hours for something basic. But it depends on your competency and experience.

There are some excellent free videos on Instagram about how to film/photograph products in an appealing way.

I’m fairly competent and IT literate, what would you charge for all this?

I'm not sure what I charge is relevant for your situation as I sell to a particular niche and they pay for my expertise in this. It would also take me a shorter time as I do this daily.

If you are fairly computer literate I would just trying making your own squarespace site (wix is slightly cheaper but I really dislike it personally). You'll probably find you can build something decent. You have two weeks to be in draft mode before you have to decide if you want to pay and put it live. It's about £25 a month and usually domain is free for a year.

If you can say what your business is I can suggest what you need to take payment

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Setting up a simple Squarespace/Wix site with just a landing page and contact form if you've got all the content written and a decent brief (i.e. brand guidelines, copy etc) would take me half a day, socials no more than an hour (again, if you've got content like bios etc already written and personal accounts to link to).

I'd charge my 'standard' freelance rate of £40 an hour for that but I have absolutely no idea if that's typical and I'm not a web developer, just someone who works in marketing with graphic design and developing experience who does bits of this kind of thing for friends' small businesses as a side hustle. This would be a very basic, from-template (with little tweaks) thing though and there'd be the additional cost of hosting and domain too.

So you'll need some sort of software like this

www.bookalet.co.uk

You'll need to research how to do keyword research and put your keywords in headers, page titles, image alt descriptions, body of text. To help you be discovered on Google. It's a slow process.

Have a look at carrd.co https://try.carrd.co/cysc17f3 , I have a couple of free landing pages with them, it's really easy to set up and the free tier is absolutely fine.

Thank you all!