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I was thinking the same thing – cat up until I saw the “abcd…” then it was “two year old” lol. Also many many years ago there used to be a Firefox extension which would do random fake searches on the search engines. The idea was that it helped mask your real search activity. Someone monitoring your searches would not be able to tell which ones you did and which ones were from the extension.
Reminds me of that new “adblock” extension that actually clicks every ad in the background to try and achieve the same thing. I’m too lazy to Google it, but it made its rounds on YouTube recently via Louis Rossman and the like.
That said, thank you for reminding me of the leaked AOL search history. User 927 is an interesting mystery for those curious in the macabre.
Let me be very stright forward. I am looking for a cheaper email marketing tool. Traditional platforms like Klaviyo, Omnisend, Mailchimp are good but I am looking for something on/was on lifetime deal
For example
- Acumbamail
- vbout
- Mailercloud
- Selzy
- Brevo (yes, they were on LTD)
- Mailpoet
Have you come across any reliable tool?
I need it for transactional and marketing purpose (ecommerce website)
You are on the right path.
I have tested a bunch of these for clients trying to cut recurring costs. Mailercloud and Selzy are solid for basic use…Selzy especially has good support and simple automations for the price.
One you didn’t mention that I’d suggest: Mailmodo. It’s not flashy, but does both transactional and marketing, and it had a lifetime deal on AppSumo a while back.
Also worth looking into: Encharge if you spot a promo…more SaaS-focused, but works fine for ecom too. I compared most of these on Sprout24 to validate deliverability and engagement rates, some cheaper tools look good but drop the ball on inbox placement. Stick with the ones with proven sender reputations.
You might want to check out Elastic Email. They had a lifetime deal on AppSumo some time ago and their cost per thousand is very low. It handles both transactional and marketing emails and their API is pretty straightforward. If you don’t mind self hosted options, Mautic is open source so you only pay for hosting and can fully control your data. Another route is Postmark for transactional mail paired with a simple newsletter frontend like Mailbrew or using Mailgun’s UI. Both often pop up with promos. For solid deliverability and lower recurring costs those setups can work well.
How much would you charge for this website? taxresolutionandconsultingllc.com (view on desktop for the full experience)
I’m based in the U.S. I built this website for $199. Originally, I started for free, then 200 to 300 for the last 6-8 months, but my most recent two after this one were 400 & 500 dollars.
I have seen people charge 1,000 to 1,500 for templates (and for clarity, this website is not a template), so I feel like I’m not charging enough now that I have some experience.
Let me know what you guys think. Thank you
UPDATE
Thank you for all the feedback! The summary of what I receieved was – speed up the animations, and then ditch 90% of them haha. Secondly, create a way better mobile menu for this to be listed at $1500.
There’s more, but these were the main pointers. Thanks again!
For me, just a few minor things. A bit too many animations on each page 😎 They can work great but always “less is more” in my opinion. It varies depending on the client and their business, and in this case – a tax business – as a potential customer, animation equals a “fun” attitude which is at odds with the message you want to be sending.
Don’t get me wrong, you don’t have to be boring, but subtlety sends a sense of seriousness and reliability. I had a good teacher in my early work when I was keen to show off what I could do, and he always would smile when I showed him site drafts and say “You really love the shiney stuff?” and slowly I got the message and dialled it down.
It’s a really impressive site plus it is definitely worth over 1k 👍 Don’t undersell your work, even when you are building your portfolio. I always remind clients that their website is their public facing shop or office to their business and it’s a core investment for their businesses success or failure. If they want to have a cheap site done, then there are plenty of people who will do a site on Wix for them in a week. Maybe that’s all they need, but if not then hiring me will be worth every penny. Now I am not some amazing whizzkid web dev by a long shot, but I learned early on that pitching in low to get the job would sometimes lose me the job, because the client didn’t respect me as I was too cheap. Accept that you will get it wrong and over price/ under price on occasions, but you’ll get better at it as you go along. Finally, if a client isn’t willing to pay you $1k for all the work you do and the knowledge you are offering their business, you could well be dodging a bullet and don’t want to take their work in the first place.
think you’re quite wrong. Animations are absolutely fine.
Even the AWS website has self-generated scroll interactions.
You don’t want animations on a very busy product gallery but on a landing it’s fine.
However, the real question is do people want to look at the picture of the guy who fades in? Will he help make a sale? Will people hate him and not buy because of looking at him?
These questions may not even clear Yes or No answers. Either you need lots of good data to figure this out or it’s something that doesn’t require any further analysis.
Hey OP, What you can charge depends on your location, but not so much if you’re working with out of state or international clients. I only do work in my home state, because legal agreements don’t necessarily hold up in other states. You should charge at least $1K per site. Hosting and maintenance should provide ongoing revenue. Managing SEO and PPC marketing, etc. are also good revenue centers.
You should have language in your agreement that basically says all materials furnished by client, (this means their logo if they supplied it, copy, images, graphics, etc.) remain the property of the client and vice versa for whatever you develop or contribute. Also, do not sign anything that states it is a “work for hire”, which means they own it, and you have no rights to it. As a web dev, you’ll make your money by reusing code and design patterns you have created, like a form-mail lead form etc. Every time I have do anything from scratch, I lose money. Reusability is essential, so no work for hire unless it’s $100K+ and you won’t be ever be reusing any of it. Good Luck!
The slide/fade (animated) text on the homepage. Major killer for me. People that are interested in this person’s services are not interested in “eyecandy”, but serious approach. Plus there is absolutely nothing “above the fold” on the homepage, except the call-to-action (phone) button, which is good, but the animated text doesn’t bring the message over. What are the services? If you would simply put those words down as static text, the message will come across much better. Write a little burb around it and it should do the trick. The logo revealed what the site was about otherwise I wouldn’t have known.. put that information lower on the page though (not just the logo)… show what the site is about.
I would recommend that you click every single button and then back arrow on desktop tablet and mobile view to make sure everything works properly. I clicked “see more” on the services page then clicked back and this is what I got. Its kind off too “playing around” for me if I was needing to select a professional for taxes. I didnt realize there was a menu because its small and kind of between the other stuff and blends in. The animations going in one by one left and right was a little annoying. I would hire this person: https://www.stengerfamilyoffice.com/taxpreparation or https://www.lewis.cpa/locations/naperville-il over yours based on the confidence I get from the website. Why the heck do all the words move towards wherever I tap on the screen?
I’ll be fair website is extremely simple, if you were coding this custom you probably wasted your time.
Yes craft is important but I see nothing here you couldn’t do in a day work using any builder.
Animations are frustrating on mobile, by the time image slides in I am already off the website.
Menu is a bit too simple, not sure why the logo takes full width.
Pages are extremely light in content.
It’s not only anout charging more cause this can be done by someone from Fivver for $300 should it be done that way that’s another story.
Focus on add-on services like writing blog for them to get them cited by AI, add some ai features which make sense for this business, etc etc
Don’t charge double now just because people here said so.
Someone here would pay 2k, some 1k some 300, it’s a bad question to ask am I charging enough because that will get you false validation.
Make your offer firm, set a couple of add-ons, see how much it realistically take you, set a price and chase the world, see how it works.
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