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are pay monthly web services starting to wind you up too?

Posted by Mo Gillis-Coates on July 4, 2011 at 9:05 am

Hi peeps, just wanted to post a rant really……. Pay monthly stuff!

I was just looking for some new software to help with the business and I found some on a pay month account….. which prompted me to have a think and then a review of my own accounts….. this is what I came up with…

Web Shop hosting and services £25 a month
Web Site hosting (several sites) £40 a month
Email Marketing tool (several sites) £20 a month
Anti Virus protection (4 pc’s user) £10 a month
Book keeping, invoicing (3 users) £30 a month
Image Purchase account £20 a month
Proofing account £15 a month
Seller Research tools for eBay etc £15 a month
Pro selling manager tools and shop hosting £20 a month

Total = 195 a month

This is just fixed and I haven’t included fees for selling commissions etc and advertising. I know paying monthly negates having to find the money up front, but it just seems that everything is starting to demand a monthly payment, costs are increasing and I’m just generally getting the hump with having to do this. I’m thinking of developing my own service for sign companies that covers everything…lol

Just my beef for a monday morning, I was just wondering how everyone else finds all this and what your costs are like? I do run sever web shops and web sites for various products so I may be slightly different from most, but how does everyone else feel about this?

BigMo

Craig Ross replied 12 years, 10 months ago 5 Members · 9 Replies
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Neil Speirs

Member
July 4, 2011 at 9:47 am

quote Mo Gillis-Coates:

but how does everyone else feel about this?

BigMo

If you give me £12.50 per month I will tell you 🙄
Mo Gillis-Coates

Member
July 4, 2011 at 10:06 am

quote Neil Speirs:

quote Mo Gillis-Coates:

but how does everyone else feel about this?

BigMo

If you give me £12.50 per month I will tell you 🙄

hahahaha… nice one! (:)
Jason Xuereb

Member
July 4, 2011 at 11:52 am

You don’t want to see my dedicated server and seo bills (:)
Craig Ross

Member
July 4, 2011 at 12:03 pm

I know they all add up! I’ve got my own server for numerous different websites I have.

PM me if you want to save some monies on hosting. 🙂
David Rowland

Member
July 4, 2011 at 1:13 pm

i could offer the same thing… mines a reseller account
Mo Gillis-Coates

Member
July 4, 2011 at 1:18 pm

what do you think I could combine out of that lot to save money?
Craig Ross

Member
July 4, 2011 at 1:23 pm

You could definitely combine the web hosting and your web store on to one. What sort of Space and Bandwidth do you currently have?

PM me Mo, always happy to help.
Mo Gillis-Coates

Member
July 4, 2011 at 1:28 pm

yeah problem is the web shop is with ekm powershop so it handles everything without too much work from me, even integrates my paypal webpayments pro without hassle. I’m always scared of my email being down for a couple of days too while the domain is transfered…

Bandwiidth is low at the moment but we are expecting a bug upsurge next month when we launch one o our new sites
Craig Ross

Member
July 4, 2011 at 1:35 pm

Usually it only takes a couple of hours so if you do it at midnight example, everything would be transferred and ready for opening of business on the next day.