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   5/26/09

   trailofpen

   I'm interested too, so I can start charging people, lol.

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   5/26/09

   acousticguitarist

   When it comes down to it, when someone asks to have a site / blog built, they are asking you to market their business online.
   
   The sort of thing I'm talking about is:
   
   installation at host
   uploading template
   editing template
   editing header
   simple tutes on posting
   adding and advising on content
   optimizing for the google monster etc

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   1. 

      5/26/09

      codesucker

      I'm as western as it gets, I'm from New York. My prices are much cheaper than most local developers
      
      I've charged anywhere from $200 to $500 for a setting up a custom solution. For e-commerce sites I charge around 3k + hourly charge for inventory building (grunt work).. so you can see that blogs are relatively cheap.
      
      It's usually an SQL database with 1 tables and 5 columns, unless they want the works. Can be thrown together using PHP in a few hours
      
      Also, totally for free ( On ecommerce and storefront sites )I usually throw in a wordpress cms on the blog. subdomain for free and use it to bait the sale
      
      By the way, about the 'simple tuts' on posting, the last one of these ended up being a 5 hour phone conversation broke into 2 sessions
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      5/26/09

      acousticguitarist

      Thanks code-dog
      
      When I mean tutes, I mean pdf's screenshots reusable.
      
      I generally don't build but seeing my guitar sites have had over 300,000 visitors local people are going WTF (I don't generally like to swear). I built my blogs to test search engines originally. Funny where guitar players end up, and I don't play enough guitar.